Turbulence-driven instabilities limit insect flight performance

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 9105-9108

  Combes, Stacey A ^a,d   Dudley, Robert ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forward flight; Maximum speed; Orchid bees; Rolling; Stability

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; BEE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLYING; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; VELOCITY;

AIR MOVEMENTS; ANIMALS; BEES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; APIDAE; APOIDEA; EUGLOSSINI; HEXAPODA;

EID: 67049115570     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902186106     Document Type: Article

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