Functional Surfaces in Biology : Adhesion Related Phenomena Volume 2 - Gorb, Stanislav N.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
Adhesion Enhancement and Reduction in Biological Surfaces -- Adhesion Enhancement -- The Echinoderm Tube Foot and its Role in Temporary Underwater Adhesion -- Mechanisms and Principles Underlying Temporary Adhesion, Surface Exploration and Settlement Site Selection by Barnacle Cyprids: A Short Review -- Alternative Tasks of the Insect Arolium with Special Reference to Hymenoptera -- Organs of Adhesion in Some Mountain-stream Teleosts of India: Structure-Function Relationship -- Surface Characteristics of Locomotor Substrata and Their Relationship to Gekkonid Adhesion: A Case Study of Rhoptropus cf biporosus -- Adhesion Reduction -- Variable Attachment to Plant Surface Waxes by Predatory Insects -- The Waxy Surface in Nepenthes Pitcher Plants: Variability, Adaptive Significance and Developmental Evolution -- Functional Surfaces in the Pitcher of the Carnivorous Plant Nepenthes alata: A Cryo-Sem Approach.
Keywords: Life sciences; Engineering; Physics; Plant science; Botany; Life Sciences, general; Engineering, general; Physics, general; Plant Sciences