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Physical Ecology-Related Books

General

  • Denny, M.W. 1988. Biology and Mechanics of the Wave-Swept Environment. Princeton University Press.
  • Denny, M.W. 1993. Air and water: the biology and physics of life’s media. Princeton University Press.
  • Fung, Y. C. 1990. Biomechanics: motion, flow, stress, and growth. New York: Springer-Verlag.
  • Gordon, J.E. 1978. Structures. Da Capo Press.
  • Lighthill, M.J. Sir. 1975. Mathematical Biofluiddynamics. SIAM.
  • Mann, K.H. and J.R.N. Lazier. 1991. Dynamics of Marine Ecosystems. Blackwell Science.
  • Okubo, A. 1980. Diffusion and Ecological Problems. Springer Verlag.
  • Pennycuick, C.J. 1992. Newton Rules Biology. Oxford University Press.
  • Rayner, J.M.V. and R.J. Wootton. 1991. Biomechanics in evolution. Cambridge University Press.
  • Vogel, S. 1988. Life’s Devices. Princeton University Press.
  • Vogel, S. 1994. Life in Moving Fluids, 2nd Ed. Princeton University Press.
  • Vogel S. 1998. Cats’ Paws and Catapults. W.W. Norton.
  • Wainwright, P.C. and S.M. Reilly. 1994. Ecological Morphology. University of Chicago Press.
  • Wainwright, S.A. 1988. Axis and circumference: the cylindrical shape of plants & animals. Harvard University Press.
  • Wainwright, S.A., W.D. Biggs, J.D. Currey, and J.M. Gosline. 1982. Mechanical Design in Organisms. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
  • Wootton, R.J. and Jeremy M. Rayner 1997. Biomechanics in Evolution. Cambridge University Press.

Botanical

  • Givnish, T. J. 1986. On the Economy of Plant Form and Function. Cambridge.
  • Niklas, K.J. 1992. Plant Biomechanics. University of Chicago Press.
  • Romberg, J.A. Z. Hejnowicz, and J.F. Hill. 1993. Plant structure : function and development. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Properties of Materials

  • Gordon, J.E. The New Science of Strong Materials. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
  • Vincent, J. F. V. 1992. Biomechanics–materials: a practical approach. Oxford University Press.
  • Vincent, J. 1990. Structural Biomaterials. Princeton University Press, Princeton.

On Shape and Form

  • Brown, J.H. 1995. Macroecology. University of Chicago Press.
  • McMahon, T.A. and J.T. Bonner. 1983. On Size and Life. Scientific American.
  • Niklas, K.J. 1994. Plant Allometry. University of Chicago Press.
  • Peters, R.H. 1983. The Ecological Implications of Body Size. Cambridge University Press..
  • Russel, E.S. 1992. Form and Function. University of Chicago Press.
  • Schmidt-Nielson, K. 1984. Scaling. Cambridge University Press.
  • Thompson, D.A. 1966. On Growth and Form. Cambridge University Press.

Zoological

  • Alexander, R. McNeill. 1988. Elastic mechanisms in animal movement. Cambridge University Press.
  • Alexander, R. McNeill. 1992. Exploring biomechanics : animals in motion. W.H. Freeman.
  • Alexander, R. McNeill. 1992. Mechanics of animal locomotion. Springer-Verlag.
  • Alexander, R. McNeill and G. Goldspink. 1977. Mechanics and Energetic of Animal Locomotion. Academic Press.
  • Blake, R.W. 1983. Fish Locomotion. Cambridge.
  • Jorgensen, C.B. 1990. Bivalve Filter Feeding. Olson & Olson.
  • McMahon, T.A. 1984. Muscles, Reflexes, and Locomotion. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
  • Sammarco, P. and M. Heron (editors). 1994. The Biophysics of Marine Larval Dispersal. American Geophysical Union. Washington, DC.
  • Trueman, E.R. 1975. The Locomotion of Soft-Bodied Animals. Elsevier.
  • Wells, M. 1968. Lower Animals. McGraw-Hill, NY.
  • Wildish, D. and D. Kristmanson. 1997. Benthic Suspension Feeders and Flow. Cambridge University Press.

Fluid Transport and Mixing

  • Bascom, W. 1980. Waves and Beaches, Revised Updated and Enlarged. Anchor Press.
  • Batchelor, G.K. 1967. An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics. Cambridge University Press.
  • Chow, V.T. 1959. Open-Channel Hydraulics. McGraw-Hill.
  • Fischer, H.B., E.J. List, R.C.Y. Koh, J. Imberger, and N.H. Brooks. 1979. Mixing in Inland and Coastal Waters. Academic Press.
  • Hemond, H.F. and E.J. Fechner. 1994. Chemical Fate and Transport in the Environment. Academic Press.
  • Imberger, J. 1998. Physical Processes in Lakes and Oceans. AGU.
  • Monteith, J.L. and M.H. Unsworth 1990. Principles of Environmental Physics. Edward Arnold.
  • Schlichting, H. 1979. Boundary-Layer Theory. McGraw-Hill.
  • Tritton, D.J. 1977. Physical Fluid Dynamics. Van Nostrand Reinhold.
  • Van Dyke. 1982. An Album of Fluid Motion. Parabolic Press.
  • White, F.M. 1994. Fluid Mechanics, 3rd Edition. McGraw-Hill

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Physical Ecology-Related Journals:At present there is no single location where Physical Ecology-related research is published. There are, however, a large number of journals where Physical Ecology-related publications can be found included in the following list:

  • American Journal of Botany
  • American Naturalist
  • American Zoologist
  • Annals of Botany

A call for papers (PDF: 1.1 Mb) that transcend traditional fields in all areas of aquatic sciences including both marine and freshwater is available.
For more information contact the Editor-in-Chief Dr.Barbara Sulzberger.
  • Biological Bulletin
  • Biomimetics
  • Functional Ecology
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
  • Journal of Theoretical Biology
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Marine Biology
  • Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Oecologia
  • Scientific American
  • Trends in Ecology and Evolution

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