The aerodynamic signature of running spiders

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Casas, Jérôme ^a   Steinmann, Thomas ^a   Dangles, Olivier ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; RUNNING; SPIDER; VELOCITY; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; GRYLLIDAE; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; BLATTARIA; GRYLLIDAE; LYCOSIDAE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ESCAPE REACTION; GRYLLIDAE; LOCOMOTION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RUNNING; SPIDERS;

EID: 47749146160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002116     Document Type: Article

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