We explore the effects of environmental differences between the two habitat types on adult butterfly trait expression including size, flight-related wing morphology and wing pigmentation.
TURN left when you enter Staten Island's multicolored amusement palace, Fun Station USA, and you'll run into the Venturer, a minivan-size flight simulator.
With any luck, your amygdala (the almond-size flight-or-fight controller in your head) will calm down and your cerebral cortex (responsible for rational thinking) will take over again.
Given that there were no differences in egg size across flight treatment groups, these results strongly indicate egg provisioning differences between flight treatment groups that are over and above those related to egg size per se.
Free-flight tests in variable wind and temperature conditions are now needed to determine whether body size affects flight performance in N. vespilloides.
Despite their numerical dominance, they are often difficult to observe because of their small size, quick flight speed, and preference for patches of dense vegetation.
Their research is published in the international Public Library of Science journal, PLoS ONE (http://www.plosone.org/article/info doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0013982), "On the Size and Flight Diversity of Giant Pterosaurs, the Use of Birds as Pterosaur Analogues and Comments on Pterosaur Flightlessness".
Albatross wing shape, body size, and flight performance characteristics (Table S1) were collected and analyzed using standard methods [10], [11], [28], [29].
The size and flight mechanics of giant pterosaurs have received considerable research interest for the last century but are confused by conflicting interpretations of pterosaur biology and flight capabilities.
If a researcher wants to include the cities that are within the top 100 of both population size and flight volume, he or she will need to have a sample size of about 165 cities (Figure 5).
