Meeting Abstract S6-10  Sunday, Jan. 5 14:00 – 14:30   Directional sensitivity of Northern saw-whet owls: implications for prey and wing sound detection GALL, MD*; DE KONING, M; BEATINI, JR; PROUDFOOT, GA; Vassar College; Vassar College; Vassar College; Vassar College megall@vassar.edu http://pages.vassar.edu/sensoryecology/ Many animals localize sound sources using cues derived from sounds arriving at two ears that […]

Meeting Abstract S6-6  Sunday, Jan. 5 10:30 – 11:00  Acoustic models for wing specializations of silent owl species JAWORSKI, JW; Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA jaworski@lehigh.edu Many owls species are known to be able to hunt in effective stealth to themselves and their prey, a feat which is attributed in full or in part to their wing specializations. […]

Meeting Abstract S5-4  Sunday, Jan. 5 09:30 – 10:00  The Effect of Water on Salamander Cling Performance at the Critical Roughness O’DONNELL, MK*; DEBAN, SM; Brown University; University of South Florida mary_kate_odonnell@brown.edu https://marykateodonnell.wordpress.com Plethodontid salamanders are capable of extraordinary clinging and climbing performance. This has enabled them to access arboreal, saxicolous, troglodytic, terrestrial, and fossorial habitats to […]

Meeting Abstract S5-5  Sunday, Jan. 5 10:30 – 11:00  Suction feeding in small animals and carnivorous plants DEBAN, SM*; HOLZMAN, R; MULLER, UK; University of South Florida; Tel Aviv University; California State University Fresno umuller@csufresno.edu http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~umuller/FBDS/FBDS-home/FBDS-home-welcome.html Suction feeding has evolved independently in two highly disparate systems, aquatic vertebrates and carnivorous bladderworts. Incidentally, bladderworts are the smallest and […]

Meeting Abstract S5-6  Sunday, Jan. 5 11:00 – 11:30  Nature’s weapons of mass reproduction: Ballistic dispersal of seeds and spores WHITAKER, DL; Pomona College dwight.whitaker@pomona.edu Because plants lack locomotion, their only means of colonizing new habitats or escaping disease or predation is through seed and spore dispersal. The most effective methods for dispersal over long distances use […]

Meeting Abstract S5-1  Sunday, Jan. 5 08:15 – 08:30  Introduction to the symposium Müller , UK*; Poppinga, S; California State University Fresno; University of Freiburg, Botanic Garden

Meeting Abstract S5-2  Sunday, Jan. 5 08:30 – 09:00  Functional Surfaces of Insect-trapping Pitcher Plants BAUER, U; University of Bristol ulrike.bauer@bristol.ac.uk https://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/en/persons/ulrike-bauer(a9e410df-5a0f-4831-80e6-33a5de71ec9e).html Pitcher plants do not just solve physical problems – they use physics to solve one of the most existential problems in nature: finding food. Every single part of their pitfall traps is adapted to make […]

Meeting Abstract S5-9  Sunday, Jan. 5 14:00 – 14:30  Efficiency of odor capture by multiscale pectinate insect antennae JAFFAR-BANDJEE, M; STEINMANN, T; KRIJNEN, G; CASAS, J*; University of Tours; CNRS; University of Twente; University of Tours casas@univ-tours.fr While the pectinate antennae of silk moths and other insect groups are considered as the paragon of sensitivity to sexual […]

Meeting Abstract S5-11  Sunday, Jan. 5 15:00 – 15:30  Design principles of Fluid Force and Moment Platforms for biological locomotion studies LENTINK, D*; CHIN, D.D. ; HIGHTOWER, B.J.; INGERSOLL, R.; Stanford; Stanford; Stanford; Stanford dlentink@stanford.edu One of the key challenges in studying the biomechanics of organisms moving in fluids is measuring the instantaneous fluid force and moment […]

Meeting Abstract S5-3  Sunday, Jan. 5 09:00 – 09:30  Adhesive Performance of Tropical Arboreal Ants on Canopy Substrates STARK, A Y*; YANOVIAK, S P; Villanova University; University of Louisville and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute alyssa.stark@villanova.edu http://www.alyssaystark.com The surface characteristics of forest canopy substrates are highly variable over relatively small temporal and spatial scales. Substrates often differ in […]