BEMS-Related Books

• 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

American Journal of Botany

American Naturalist

American Zoologist

Annals of Botany
 

	Published by the EAWAG (Swiss Federal institute for Environmental Science and Technology) and Birkhauser, is being relaunched in 2002 as a journal devoted to Research Across Boundaries including "research across disciplinary boundaries (studies examining interactions between physical, chemical, and biological processes)."
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
• Biomimetrics
• 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

• Abiotic Pollination (Compiled by Joe Ackerman, UG)
• Flow in Aquatic Plant Canopies  (Compiled by Joe Ackerman, UG)
• Flow Visualization and Measurement (Compiled by Stephen Braimah, LSU)
• Locomotion on the Water Surface (Compiled by Rober Suter, Vassar)
• Mechanics of Lakes (Compiled by Craig Stevens, NIWA, Wellington, NZ)
• Marine Biology References (Maintained by Jeff Levinton, SUNY Stony Brook)
• Sensory Ecology (Compiled by Paul Moore, Bowling Green State)
• Stream Benthic Ecology (Compiled by Stephen Braimah, LSU)
• Suspension Feeding (Compiled by Jeff Shimeta, Franklin & Marshall College)
• Turbulence Effects on Fish Larvae and Fisheries Recruitment (Compiled by Brian MacKenzie, Danish Institute for Fisheries Research)
• Flow in Terrestrial Plant Canopies  (Compiled by Joe Ackerman, UG)
• Turbulence Measurements in Aquatic Environments (Compiled by Brian MacKenzie, Danish Institute for Fisheries Research)
• Vertebrate Locomotion Links (Compiled by Jeremy Rayner, University of Leeds)

• Publications by Joe Ackerman (University of Guelph)
• Publications by Karl Niklas (Cornell University)
• Publications by Jeremy Rayner (University of Leeds)
• Publications by Steven Vogel (Duke Unversity)

• Comparative Biomechanics (University of Florida)
• Designs for Life (University of Leeds)
• Physical Ecology (University of Northern Britich Columbia)

References on Laboratories/Practicals for Teaching BEMS-Related Materials

• Seed and Fruit Dispersal (Compiled by Peter Minorsky, Western Connecticut State)
• Mechanical Properties of Tissues (Compiled by Joe Ackerman, UNBC)
• Pedagogical Journals:
  • (1) American Biology Teacher
  • (2) Journal of Biological Education
  • (3) American Physics Teacher

Please forward your course WWW and/or references on laboratories and practicals to: Joe Ackerman