Trade‐offs in avian parental care: a review of theory and meta‐analysis of brood size manipulations
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The selective forces shaping parental care have been studied for over 50 years. While theoretical and experimental work has yielded qualitative progress, the large body of empirical work testing predictions about parental investment based on life‐history trade‐offs has yet to be synthesized.
Rebekah A. McKinnon +4 more
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Dynamics of Micro-Air-Vehicle with Flapping Wings
Acta Polytechnica, 2004 Small (approximately 6 inch long, or hand-held) reconnaissance micro air vehicles (MAVs) will fly inside buildings, and require hover for observation, and agility at low speeds to move in confined spaces.
K. Sibilski
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Pesticide exposure affects flight dynamics and reduces flight endurance in bumblebees
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 The emergence of agricultural land use change creates a number of challenges that insect pollinators, such as eusocial bees, must overcome. Resultant fragmentation and loss of suitable foraging habitats, combined with pesticide exposure, may increase ...
Daniel Kenna +5 more
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Developmental and activity-dependent plasticity of filiform hair receptors in the locust
Frontiers in Physiology, 2013 A group of wind sensitive filiform hair receptors on the locust thorax and head makes contact onto a pair of identified interneuron, A4I1. The hair receptors’ central nervous projections exhibit pronounced structural dynamics during nymphal development ...
Hans-Joachim ePflüger, Harald eWolf
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Insect flight metabolic rate revealed by bolus injection of the stable isotope 13C. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2021 Urca T, Levin E, Ribak G.
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Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosystem services (e.g.
Corrado Alessandrini +13 more
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Wing structure and neural encoding jointly determine sensing strategies in insect flight. [PDF]
PLoS Comput Biol, 2021 Weber AI, Daniel TL, Brunton BW.
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Physiological factors in insect migration by flight
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C. G. JOHNSON, Johnson, C. G.
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What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux +3 more
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Abdominal Movements in Insect Flight Reshape the Role of Non-Aerodynamic Structures for Flight Maneuverability I: Model Predictive Control for Flower Tracking. [PDF]
Integr Org Biol, 2022 Bustamante J +4 more
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