Wind has long been regarded as an important ecological factor for forests due to the considerable damage it can inflict on forest canopies 1. In recent decades, wind speed over global land areas has ...
Rotor and propeller performance in edgewise flight has attracted considerable attention recently due to the widespread use of fixed or variable-pitch propellers in modern air taxi and unmanned aerial ...
A research team from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) studied the global variability of plant hydraulics in relation to wind speed. Their findings are ...