Browsing by Author "Moen, Daniel"
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Aerodynamics of active and passive dispersal of miniature insects with bristled wings
Kasoju, Vishwa Teja (2021-07)Tiny insects with body lengths under 2 mm, such as thrips, use fringed/bristled wings for active flapping at Reynolds number (Re) on the order of 10. Even at such tiny scales these insects were found to fly effectively ... -
Analyzing the effects of body size on frog swimming
Spicer, Jack (2021-07)The scaling of traits with body size, along with the effects it has on performance and evolution, has long been studied in evolutionary biology and biomechanics. These effects can be observed in locomotion across many ... -
Ecology and Evolution of Phosphorus Use in Daphnia
Sherman, Ryan E. (2019-05-01)Understanding how populations respond to environmental change is an important challenge in contemporary biology. Ecological stoichiometry uses elemental composition of species to make predictions about success in defined ... -
Effect of stroke frequency on swimming across frog species
Loper, Antonio (2019-04-24)Many studies of comparative biomechanics look at few species, making it unclear how a diversity of body forms influences movement. Frogs demonstrate a unique chance to study such locomotive biomechanics, as they must be ... -
Hidden in plain sight: Morphological and genetic diversity of blood protozoa from North American amphibians
Shannon, Ryan Patrick (2022-12)Blood parasites represent an incredibly diverse subset of parasites that infect all major groups of vertebrates and are transmitted by numerous blood feeding invertebrates. However, quantifying blood parasite diversity is ...