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Insects of the Water Surface
Lorus J. Milne,Margery J. Milne +1 more
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Second Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium: Appropriate concepts and technology for unsaturated soils
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present concepts that can be used to develop an appropriate engineering practice for unsaturated soils and demonstrate the manner in which saturated soil mechanics must be extended when a soil is unsaturated.
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Organism-environment mutuality epistemics, and the concept of an ecological niche
TL;DR: This essay seeks to standardize usage by limiting the concept of an ecological niche to functional relations between organisms and their surroundings, and to revise the concept to include epistemic relations.
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Phylogenetic Inference as Applied to the Study of Evolutionary Diversification of Semiaquatic Bugs (Hemiptera: Gerromorpha)
TL;DR: The possibility of deciphering patterns of evolutionary diversification using the semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Gerromorpha) as an example group is examined and the neo-Darwinian views on the origin and differentiation of higher taxa are examined and criticized.
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Water surface locomotion in tropical canopy ants
TL;DR: Sustained, directional, neustonic locomotion (i.e. surface swimming) in tropical arboreal ants is document and the phylogenetic distribution of swimming among ant genera indicates parallel evolution and a trend toward negative association with directed aerial descent behavior.
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Comparative Morphology of Arthropod Exterior Surfaces with the Capability of Binding a Film of Air Underwater
TL;DR: The air-binding surfaces of aquatic and semi-aquatic insects and spiders were examined under a scanning electron microscope and the bristles that are instrumental in binding the film of air show distinctive characteristics within each phylogenetic group.