FINER PHYSIOLOGY. “We now know this to be incorrect. The colony’s respiratory gas exchange is not mediated through bulk flows of air through the nest, but through a complex mixed-regime process that is very similar to how gas exchange operates in our own lungs. This involves using wind energy to promote mixing at a boundary between two air masses that, for various reasons, are poorly mixed: the mound’s and the nest’s.”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-016-9256-5
linkedin post 2022-06-29 05:12:48
Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022