Symposium: Mechanics of Plants, Animals and their Environments: Integrative Perspectives January 11-16, 1998 Santa Barbara, California

汉弗莱9727180 研讨会将汇集生物学家，物理科学家（化学家，物理学家，数学家）和工程师的高度跨学科的组合，提出和讨论与植物，动物及其环境相关的流体，固体，它们-o-力学和动力学现象。 感兴趣的长度尺度范围跨越单个细胞、整个生物体、它们的宿主环境，这意味着长度尺度比超过10 - 2，并且包括 的 极端 的 微 （分子） 和 宏观（大气/海洋）力。 许多完全不同的现象都可以用一套共同的物理定律来描述。 它们包括从树上折断树枝，蚂蚁举起负载，蜘蛛感知振动，风传播种子或化学污染物，鸟类和昆虫飞行，鱼类游泳，通过血细胞运输氧气，树中树液上升，投弹虫释放的热化学物质，蝴蝶翅膀拦截的太阳辐射，蛾类中信息素羽流的传播和感知，水蝗在水面上的运动，海洋动物的滤食，昆虫的声音产生，单细胞及其膜和骨骼的力学，节肢动物外骨骼的物理化学性质，血液流过大血管和毛细血管的力学，某些生物体形式与功能相关的最佳状态。这提供了一种自然的方法来分析各种各样的生物现象，否则：看起来完全无关;一种方法来找到它们之间的潜在共性，不是在传统的生物领域，而是在影响它们的环境的物理学方面。

Humphrey 9727180 The Symposium will bring together a highly interdisciplinary mix of biologists, physical scientists (chemists, physicists, mathematicians) and engineers to present and discuss fluid-, solid-, them~o-mechanics and dynamics phenomena related to plants, animals, and their environments. The length scale range of interest spans single cells, to entire organisms, to their host environments, implying length scale ratios exceeding 10'2 and including the extremes of micro (molecular) and macro (atmosphericJoceanographic) forces. Many disparate phenomena are described by a common set of physical laws. They include the breaking of a limb from a tree, the lifting of a load by an ant, the sensing of vibrations by a spider, the dispersion of seeds or chemical pollutants by the wind, the flight of birds and insects, the swimming of fish, the transportation of oxygen via blood cells, the rising of sap in trees, the hot chemical discharge from the bombardier beetle, the solar radiation interception by a butterfly's wings, the dispersal and sensing of pheromone plumes in moths, the locomotion of water striders on water surfaces, filter feeding in marine animals, insect sound production, the mechanics of single cells and their membranes and skeletons, the physico-chemicai properties of arthropod exoskeletons, the mechanics of blood flow through large blood vessels and in capillaries, the optima of certain organismal forms in relation to function. This provides a natural way to analyze a diverse collection of biological phenomena that might otherwise: appear totally unrelated; a way to find underlying commonalities among them, not in the traditional biological areas, but in terms of the physics that affect them in their environments.