Shepard, ELC, Ross, AN orcid.org/0000-0002-8631-3512 and Portugal, SJ (2016) Moving in a moving medium: New perspectives on flight. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 371 (1704). 20150382. ISSN 0962-8436
Abstract
One of the defining features of the aerial environment is its variability; air is almost never still. This has profound consequences for flying animals, affecting their flight stability, speed selection, energy expenditure and choice of flight path. All these factors have important implications for the ecology of flying animals, and the ecosystems they interact with, as well as providing bio-inspiration for the development of unmanned aerial vehicles. In this introduction we touch on the factors that drive the variability in airflows, the scales of variability and the degree to which given airflows may be predictable. We then summarise how papers in this volume advance our understanding of the sensory, biomechanical, physiological and behavioural responses of animals to air flows. Overall, this provides insight into how flying animals can be so successful in this most fickle of environments.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 The Author(s). Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Flight, aeroecology, wind, soaring, energy expenditure, movement ecology |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Inst for Climate & Atmos Science (ICAS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2016 12:05 |
Last Modified: | 17 Aug 2017 14:36 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0382 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | The Royal Society |
Identification Number: | 10.1098/rstb.2015.0382 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:103778 |