Transport Processes: Mass, Momentum and Heat

Theoretical Ecology: BIOL765
Department of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208
December 3, 1998



Readings:

Denny, M. W., T. L. Daniel & M. A. R. Koehl. 1985. Mechanical limits to size in wave-swept organisms. Ecological Monographs 51: 69-102.

Additional References


Butman, C A. 1987. Larval settlement of soft sediment invertebrates: the spatial scales of pattern explained by active habitat selection and the emerging role of hydrodynamic processes. Oceanography Marine Biology Annual Review 25: 113-165.

Denny, M. W. 1988. Biology and Mechanics of the Wave-Swept Environment. Princeton University Press.

Denny, M. W. 1994. Air and Water. Princeton University Press.

Denny, M. W. 1995. Predicting physical disturbance: mechanistic approaches to the study of survivorship on wave-swept shore. Ecological Monographs 65: 371-418

Eckman, J. E. & D. O. Duggins. 1993. Effects of flow speed on growth of benthic suspension feeders. Biological Bulletin 185: 28.

Gates, D. M. 1980. Biophysical Ecology Springer, New York

Monteith, J. L. & M. H. Unsworth. 1990. Principles of Environmental Physics. Edward Arnold, London.

Murlis, J, J.S. Elkinton & R. T. Carde. 1992. Odor plumes and how insects use them. Annual Review of Entomology 37: 505-532.

Niklas, K. J. 1992. Plant Biomechanics Chicago University PRess.

O'Riordan, C. A., S. G. Monismith & J. R. Koseff 1993. A study of concentration boundary layer formation over a bed of model bivalves. Limnology and Oceanography 38: 1712-1729.

Pawlik, J. R. and C. A. Butman 1993. Settlement of a marine tube worm as a function of current velocity: interacting effects of hydrodynamics and behavior. Limnology and Oceanography 38: 1730-1740.

Vogel, S. 1981. Life in Moving Fluids. Princeton University Press.

Vogel, S. 1988. Life's Devices. Princeton University Press.

Webb, P. W. 1975. Hydrodynamics and Energetics of Fish Propulsion. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 190: 1-159.