Table 2.

Maximum deflection and drag measured by the laboratory experiments of A. Young and L. Karp-Boss at the University of Maine (2011, personal communication). These data come from a subset of those experiments reported in [8]. Also shown are corresponding maximum deflection and drag force resulting from our coupled three-dimensional fluid/fibre model.

species	(lab) max. defl. (m)	(comp) max. defl. (m)	(lab) drag (N m−1)	(comp) drag (N m−1)
Lithodesmium	4.0 × 10−5	1.3 × 10−5	8.8 × 10−5	3.8 × 10−5
S. turris	4.4 × 10−5	2.8 × 10−5	1.8 × 10−4	7.4 × 10−5
L. annulata	6.4 × 10−5	5.4 × 10−5	4.2 × 10−5	1.9 × 10−5
Guinardia	6.2 × 10−5	2.9 × 10−5	6.4 × 10−8	8.5 × 10−8