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SUBMITTER: Warfvinge K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5636272 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Warfvinge Kajsa K KleinHeerenbrink Marco M Hedenström Anders A
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20170901 134
A flying animal can minimize its energy consumption by choosing an optimal flight speed depending on the task at hand. Choice of flight speed can be predicted by modelling the aerodynamic power required for flight, and this tool has previously been used extensively in bird migration research. For insects, however, it is uncertain whether any of the commonly used power models are useful, as insects often operate in a very different flow regime from vertebrates. To investigate this, we measured ae ...[more]