Table 1 A summary of selected experimental studies that directly characterize fish school formations both in two and three dimensions, and three key parameters relevant to the experimental arrangement used in this study.

From: Beyond planar: fish schools adopt ladder formations in 3D

Experimental studies

Presence of flow

Recording length

Water height

Butail and Paley (2012)

3 s

8 BL

Herbert-read et al. (2011)

5 min

1 BL

Kent et al. (2019)

5 min

1.2–1.8 BL

Mekdara et al. (2018, 2021)

5 min

12 BL

Katz et al. (2011)

 ~1 hr

1 BL

Escobedo et al. (2020)

 ~1 hr

1.9 BL

Ashraf et al. (2016, 2017)

10 s

0.5 BL

Lombana and Porfiri (2022)

5 min

2.8 BL

Current work

10 hr

1.9 BL