... 29 3 2022 © 2022. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2022 Highlighted Article: Oil droplets are captured by filter feeders at low Reynolds number using thick boundary layers and at high Reynolds number via direct interception. Filter feeding Fluid mechanics...

...Paolo S. Segre; Caroline R. Weir; Andrew Stanworth; Steve Cartwright; Ari S. Friedlaender; Jeremy A. Goldbogen ABSTRACT With their ability to facultatively switch between filter-feeding modes, sei whales represent a functional and ecological intermediate in the transition between intermittent...

.... and Wolman , A. A. ( 1971 ). The life history and ecology of the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) . Am. Soc. Mamm.   3 , 1 - 142 . Rubenstein , D. I. and Koehl , M. A. R. ( 1977 ). The mechanisms of filter feeding: some theoretical considerations . Am. Nat.   111 , 981 - 994...

...Karly E. Cohen; L. Patricia Hernandez; Callie H. Crawford; Brooke E. Flammang ABSTRACT Invasive silver carp are thriving within eutrophic environments in the United States, in part because of their highly efficient filter-feeding mechanism. Silver carp utilize modified gill rakers to capture...

... suite of morphological and physiological adaptations that were required for a fully aquatic mammalian life history. Two specific functional innovations that characterize the two great clades of cetaceans, echolocation in toothed whales (Odontoceti) and filter feeding in baleen whales (Mysticeti...

... volume of water per hour, recycling nutrients and coupling a pelagic food supply with benthic communities. Despite the ecological importance of sponge filter feeding, little is known about how sponges control the water flow through their canal system or how much energy it costs to filter the water...

... 7 8 2012 24 11 2012 © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 Cetacea mysticete whale filter feeding biomechanics hydrodynamics Baleen is not a static material. The filtering apparatus of whales (Cetacea: Mysticeti) is usually compared to a net or sieve...

.... These results highlight the importance of high prey density, regardless of prey patch depth, for efficient bulk filter feeding in baleen whales and may explain some diel changes in foraging behavior in rorqual whales. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 5 10 2010 © 2011. 2011...

... University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA 20 3 2007 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2007 2007 suspension feeding filter feeding hydrosol filtration tilapia Oreochromis aureus Suspension-feeding fish are capable of filtering food particles over a range of 5–3000 μm from...

... effects low Reynolds number olfaction arthropod biomechanics antenna filter feeding Many animals from different phyla use structures bearing arrays of hairs to perform a variety of important functions, such as olfaction, gas exchange, suspension feeding, locomotion and ventilation ( Fig. 1...