Ecology and Biomechanics offers a collection of state-of-the-art papers that ingeniously demonstrates how biomechanics can provide novel insights into long standing ecological and evolutionary questions.

Features:

• Covers research based on plants and animals and interactions between the two, as well as between them and their environment
• Examines both theoretical concepts and practical approaches
• Presents detailed topical studies highlighting state-of the art methods and analyses used in the field of eco-biomechanics
• Provides inspiration and suggestion for further inquiry via biomechanics

Contents

1. Tree Biomechanics and Growth Strategies in the Context of Forest Functional Ecology
2. Diversity of Mechanical Architectures in Climbing Plants: An Ecological Perspective
3. The Role of Blade Buoyancy and Reconfiguration in the Mechanical Adaptation of the Southern Bullkelp Durvillaea
4. Murray's Law and the Vascular Architecture of Plants
5. Plant-Animal Mechanics and Bite Procurement in Grazing Ruminants
6. Biomechanics of Salvia Flowers: The Role of Lever and Flower Tube in Specialization on Pollinators
7. Do Plant Waxes Make Insect Attachment Structures Dirty? ExperimentalEvidences for the Contamination Hypothesis
8. Ecology and Biomechanics of Slippery Wax Barriers and Wax Running to Macaranga - Ant Mutualisms
9. Nectar Feeding in Long-Proboscid Insects
10. Biomechanics and Behavioral Mimicry in Insects
11. Interindividual Variation in the Muscle Physiology of Vertebrate Ectotherms: Consequences for Behavioral and Ecological Performance
12. Power Generation during Locomotion in Anolis Lizards: An Ecomorphological Approach
13. Implications of Microbial Motility on the Water Column Ecosystems
14. The Biomechanics of Ecological Speciation

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