Bacterial clustering amplifies the reshaping of eutrophic plumes around marine particles: A hybrid data-driven model
Fig 2
Correlation of bacterial swimming to RDFs.
Impact of the bacterial swimming speed on the accumulation of marine bacteria with run-and-tumble motility around nutrient-exuding algae. (A) The data points originate from individual-based simulations by Bowen et al. (Fig 2A in [25]) and the continuous lines represent optimal fit of our exponential RDF (see section S1.5 in S1 Appendix). The bacterial peak concentration (B) and the chemotactic accumulation length (C) are negatively and positively correlated to the bacterial swimming speed, respectively, for this mode of motility.