Interfacial Organisms: Passive Ventilation in the Velocity Gradients near Surfaces
- 14 January 1972
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 175 (4018), 210-211
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.175.4018.210
Abstract
A variety of animals, including certain sponges, tube-dwellinlg worms, tropical termites, and prairie dogs, either are themselves arranged or construct domiciles arranged to permit flow of fluid inside the system driven by a velocity gradient in an external stream of fluid.Keywords
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