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Moving in a moving medium: new perspectives on flight

Emily Shepard Orcid Logo, Andrew N. Ross, Steven J. Portugal

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Volume: 371, Issue: 1704, Start page: 20150382

Swansea University Author: Emily Shepard Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1098/rstb.2015.0382

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One of the defining features of the aerial environment is its variability; air is almost never still. This has profound consequences for flying animals, affecting their flight stability, speed selection, energy expenditure and choice of flight path. All these factors have important implications for...

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Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
ISSN: 0962-8436 1471-2970
Published: 2016
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