Optimal orientation in flows: Providing a benchmark for animal movement Strategies

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 11, Issue 99, 2014, Pages

  McLaren, James D ^a   Shamoun Baranes, Judy ^a   Dokter, Adriaan M ^a,b   Klaassen, Raymond H G ^b,c   Bouten, Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Computational biology; Environmental science

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTATION THEORY;

ANIMAL MOVEMENT; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DYNAMIC WIND DATUM; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; GENERIC ORIENTATION; GOAL ORIENTATIONS; OPTIMAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; FLIGHT; FLOW; FLOW RATE; MASS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; SHEAR FLOW; SIMULATION; THEORY; WIND; BIOMECHANICS; CHARADRIIFORMES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLYING; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CHARADRIIFORMES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORIENTATION; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; WIND;

EID: 84907005553     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0588     Document Type: Article

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