Long-distance biological transport processes through the air: Can nature's complexity be unfolded in silico?

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 131-137

  Nathan, Ran ^a   Sapir, Nir ^a   Trakhtenbrot, Ana ^a   Katul, Gabriel G ^b   Bohrer, Gil ^c   Otte, Martin ^c   Avissar, Roni ^c   Soons, Merel B ^d   Horn, Henry S ^e   Wikelski, Martin ^e   Levin, Simon A ^e  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric models; Biological transport; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Large eddy simulations (LES); Long distance dispersal; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; TURBULENCE;

ARANEAE; AVES;

EID: 20144386653     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2005.00146.x     Document Type: Review

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