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Tree biomechanics and growth strategies in the context of forest functional ecology / Meriem Fournier ... [et al.] -- Diversity of mechanical architectures in climbing plants : an ecological perspective / Nicholas P. Rowe --- [et al.] -- The role of blade buoyancy and reconfiguration in the mechanical adaptation of the southern bullkelp Durvillaea / Deane L. Harder ... [et al.] -- Murray's law and the vascular architecture of plants / Katherine A. McCulloh and John S. Sperry -- Plant-animal mechanics and bite procurement in grazing ruminants / Wendy M. Griffiths -- Biomechanics of Salvia flowers : the role of lever and flower tube in specialization on pollinators / Martin Reith, Regine Classen-Bockhoff, and Thomas Speck -- Do plant waxes make insect attachment structures dirty? Experimental evidence for the contamination hypothesis / Elena Gorb and Stanislav Gorb -- Ecology and biomechanics of slippery wax barriers and wax running in Macaranga-ant mutualisms / Walter Federle and Tanja Bruening -- Nectar feeding in long-proboscid insects / Brendan J. Borrell and Harald W. Krenn -- Biomechanics and behavioral mimicry in insects / Yvonne Golding and Roland Ennos -- Interindividual variation in the muscle physiology of vertebrate ectotherms : consequences for behavioral and ecological performance / Carlos A. Navas, Rob S. James, and Robbie S. Wilson -- Power generation during locomotion in Anolis lizards : an ecomorphological approach / Bieke Vanhooydonck ... [et al.] -- Implications of microbial motility on water column ecosystems / Karen K. Christensen-Dalsgaard -- The biomechanics of ecological speciation / Jeffrey Podos and Andrew P. Hendry.