Author: Wolfgang Ritter
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Flying Apparatus of the Blow-fly
Author: Wolfgang Ritter
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Biomechanics of Insect Flight
Author: Robert Dudley
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691186340
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
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From the rain forests of Borneo to the tenements of Manhattan, winged insects are a conspicuous and abundant feature of life on earth. Here, Robert Dudley presents the first comprehensive explanation of how insects fly. The author relates the biomechanics of flight to insect ecology and evolution in a major new work of synthesis. The book begins with an overview of insect flight biomechanics. Dudley explains insect morphology, wing motions, aerodynamics, flight energetics, and flight metabolism within a modern phylogenetic setting. Drawing on biomechanical principles, he describes and evaluates flight behavior and the limits to flight performance. The author then takes the next step by developing evolutionary explanations of insect flight. He analyzes the origins of flight in insects, the roles of natural and sexual selection in determining how insects fly, and the relationship between flight and insect size, pollination, predation, dispersal, and migration. Dudley ranges widely--from basic aerodynamics to muscle physiology and swarming behavior--but his focus is the explanation of functional design from evolutionary and ecological perspectives. The importance of flight in the lives of insects has long been recognized but never systematically evaluated. This book addresses that shortcoming. Robert Dudley provides an introduction to insect flight that will be welcomed by students and researchers in biomechanics, entomology, evolution, ecology, and behavior.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691186340
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
From the rain forests of Borneo to the tenements of Manhattan, winged insects are a conspicuous and abundant feature of life on earth. Here, Robert Dudley presents the first comprehensive explanation of how insects fly. The author relates the biomechanics of flight to insect ecology and evolution in a major new work of synthesis. The book begins with an overview of insect flight biomechanics. Dudley explains insect morphology, wing motions, aerodynamics, flight energetics, and flight metabolism within a modern phylogenetic setting. Drawing on biomechanical principles, he describes and evaluates flight behavior and the limits to flight performance. The author then takes the next step by developing evolutionary explanations of insect flight. He analyzes the origins of flight in insects, the roles of natural and sexual selection in determining how insects fly, and the relationship between flight and insect size, pollination, predation, dispersal, and migration. Dudley ranges widely--from basic aerodynamics to muscle physiology and swarming behavior--but his focus is the explanation of functional design from evolutionary and ecological perspectives. The importance of flight in the lives of insects has long been recognized but never systematically evaluated. This book addresses that shortcoming. Robert Dudley provides an introduction to insect flight that will be welcomed by students and researchers in biomechanics, entomology, evolution, ecology, and behavior.
Catalogue
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1776
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1776
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The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
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Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Aeronautics
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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The Journal of the Burma Research Society
Author: Burma Research Society
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Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Journal of the Burma Research Society
Author: Burma Research Society
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Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Catalogue
Author: Walters, Frank, Firm, Booksellers, New York
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Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Languages : en
Pages : 908
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