| effects of artificial light at night on the foraging behavior of an endangered nocturnal mammal. | modification of nighttime light levels by artificial illumination (artificial light at night; alan) is a rapidly increasing form of human disturbance that affects natural environments worldwide. light in natural environments influences a variety of physiological and ecological processes directly and indirectly and, as a result, the effects of light pollution on species, communities and ecosystems are emerging as significant. small prey species may be particularly susceptible to alan as it makes ... | 2020 | 32320890 |
| estimation of the force-velocity properties of individual muscles from measurement of the combined plantarflexor properties. | the force-velocity (f-v) properties of isolated muscles or muscle fibers have been well studied in humans and other animals. however, determining properties of individual muscles in vivo remains a challenge because muscles usually function within a synergistic group. modeling has been used to estimate the properties of an individual muscle from the experimental measurement of the muscle group properties. while this approach can be valuable, the models and the associated predictions are difficult ... | 2020 | 32680898 |
| camels, cormorants, and kangaroo rats: integration and synthesis in organismal biology after world war ii. | during the decades following world war ii diverse groups of american biologists established a variety of distinctive approaches to organismal biology. rhetorically, organismal biology could be used defensively to distinguish established research traditions from perceived threats from newly emerging fields such as molecular biology. but, organismal biologists were also interested in integrating biological disciplines and using a focus on organisms to synthesize levels of organization from molecul ... | 2015 | 25592808 |