Publications by M. A. R. Koehl

Books

Koehl, M. (text) and A. R. Wertheim (photographs) (2006) Wave-Swept Shore. University of California Press.

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PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1976) Mechanical design in sea anemones. pp. 23-31, In G. O. Mackie [ed.], Coelenterate Ecology and Behavior. Plenum Publishing Corp.
PDF Wainwright, S. A. and M. A. R. Koehl (1976) The nature of flow and the reaction of benthic cnidaria to it. pp. 5-21. In G. O. Mackie [ed.], Coelenterate Ecology and Behavior. Plenum Publishing Corp.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1977) Effects of sea anemones on the flow forces they encounter. J. Exp. Biol. 69: 87-105.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1977) Mechanical organization of cantilever-like sessile organisms: Sea anemones. J. Exp. Biol. 69: 127-142.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1977) Mechanical diversity of the connective tissue of the body wall of sea anemones. J. Exp. Biol. 69: 107-125.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1977) Water flow and the morphology of zoanthid colonies. Proc. Third Int. Coral Reef Symp. I. Biology, pp. 437-444.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. and S. A. Wainwright (1977) Mechanical adaptations of a giant kelp. Limnol. Oceanogr. 22: 1067-1071.
PDF Rubenstein, D. I. and M. A. R. Koehl (1977) The mechanisms of filter feeding: Some theoretical considerations. Amer. Natur. 111: 981-994.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1981) Feeding at low Reynolds number by copepods. Lectures in Mathematics in the Life Sciences 14: 89-117.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. and J. R. Strickler (1981) Copepod feeding currents: Food capture at low Reynolds number. Limnol. Oceanogr. 26: 1061-1073.
PDF Woodley, J. D., E. A. Chornesky, P. A. Clifford, J. C. B. J. Jackson, L. S. Kaufman, N. Knowlton, J. C. Lang, M. P. Pearson, J. W. Porter, M. C. Rooney, K. W. Rylaarsdam, V. J. Tunnicliffe, C. M. Wahle, J. L. Wulff, A. S. G. Curtis M. Dallmeyer, B. P. Jupp, M. A. R. Koehl, J. Niegel, and E. M. Sides (1981) Hurricane Allen's impact on Jamaican coral reefs. Science 214: 749-755.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1982) Mechanical design of spicule-reinforced connective tissues: Stiffness. J. Exp. Biol. 98: 239-268.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1982) Book review of: Life in Moving Fluids -- The Physical Biology of Flow, by S. Vogel. American Scientist 70: 83.
PDF Horn, H. S., J. T. Bonner, W. Dohle, M. J. Katz, M. A. R. Koehl, H. Meinhardt, R. A. Raff, W.-E. Reif, S. C. Stearns, and R. Strathmann (1982) Adaptive aspects of development. pp. 215-235, In J. T. Bonner [ed.], Evolution and Development. Dahlem Konferenzen, Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1982) The interaction of moving water and sessile organisms. Scientific American 247: 124-132.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1983) The morphology and performance of suspension-feeding appendages. J. Theor. Biol. 105: 1-11.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1984) How do benthic organisms withstand moving water? Amer. Zoologist 24: 57-70.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1984) Mechanisms of particle capture by copepods at low Reynolds number: Possible modes of selective feeding. pp. 135-160, In D. L. Meyers and J. R. Strickler [eds.], A.A.A.S. Selected Symposium #85: Trophic Interactions Within Aquatic Ecosystems. Westview Press.
PDF Hanken, J. and M. A. R. Koehl (1984) Technique for visualizing the three-dimensional architecture of spiculated animals. Stain Technol. 59: 65-69.
PDF Sebens, K. P. and M. A. R. Koehl (1984) Predation on zooplankton by two benthic anthozoans, Alcyonium siderium (Alcoynacea) and Metridium senile (Actiniaria), in the New England subtidal. Mar. Biol. 81: 255-271.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. and S. A. Wainwright (1985) Biomechanics. pp. 292-313, In M. L. Littler and D. S. Littler [eds.], Handbook of Phycological Methods. Ecological Field Methods: Macroalgae. Cambridge University Press.
PDF Denny, M. W., T. Daniel, and M. A. R. Koehl (1985) Mechanical limits to the size of wave- swept organisms. Ecol. Monogr. 55: 69-102.
PDF Kingsolver, J. G. and M. A. R. Koehl (1985) Aerodynamics, thermoregulation, and the evolution of insect wings: Differential scaling and evolutionary change. Evolution 39: 488-504.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1986) Seaweeds in moving water: Form and mechanical function. pp. 603-634, In T. J. Givnish [ed.], On the Economy of Plant Form and Function. Cambridge University Press.
PDF Childress, S., M. A. R. Koehl, and M. Miksis. (1987) Scanning currents in Stokes flow and the efficient feeding of small organisms. J. Fluid Mech. 177: 407-436.
PDF Cheer, A. Y. L. and M. A. R. Koehl (1987) Paddles and rakes: Fluid flow through bristled appendages of small organisms. J. Theor. Biol. 129: 17-39.
PDF Cheer, A. Y. L. and M. A. R. Koehl (1987) Fluid flow through filtering appendages of insects. I.M.A. J. Math. Appl. Med. Biol. 4: 185-199.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. and R. S. Alberte (1988) Flow, flapping, and photosynthesis of macroalgae: Functional consequences of undulate blade morphology. Mar. Biol. 99: 435-444.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1989) From individuals to populations. pp. 39-53 In R. M. May, J. Roughgarden, and S. A. Levin [eds.], Perspectives in Ecological Theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
PDF Kingsolver, J. G. and M. A. R. Koehl (1989) Selective factors in the evolution of insect wings: Response to Kukalova-Peck. Can. J. Zool. 67: 785-787.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R., D. S. Adams, and R. E. Keller (1990) Mechancial development of the notochord in early tail-bud amphibian embryos. pp. 471-485 In N. Akkas [ed.], Biomechanics of Active Movement and Deformation of Cells. Springer-Verlag.
PDF Adams, D. S., R. E. Keller, and M. A. R. Koehl (1990) Mechanism of straightening and elongation of the notochord of Xenopus laevis. Development. 110: 115-130.
PDF Emerson, S. B. and M. A. R. Koehl (1990) The interaction of behavior and morphology in the evolution of a novel locomotor type: "Flying frogs". Evolution 44: 1931-1946.
PDF Emerson, S. B., J. Travis, and M. A. R. Koehl (1990) Functional complexes and additivity in performance: A test case with flying frogs. Evolution 44: 2153-2157.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1990) Biomechanical approaches to morphogenesis. Seminars in Developmental Biology l: 367-378.
PDF Holbrook, N. M., M. Denny and M. A. R. Koehl. (1991) Intertidal "trees": Consequences of aggregation on the mechanical and photosynthetic characteristics of sea palms. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 146: 39-67.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1992) Hairy little legs: Feeding, smelling, and swimming at low Reynolds number. Fluid Dynamics in Biology. Contemporary Mathematics 141: 33-64.
PDF Lane, M. C., M. A. R. Koehl, F. Wilt, and R. Keller (1993) The role of regulated secretion of apical extracellular matrix in epithelial invagination. Development 117: 1049-1060.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R., T. M. Powell, and G. Dairiki. (1993) Measuring the fate of patches in the water: Larval dispersal. pp. 50-60 In J. Steele, T. M. Powell, and S. A. Levin [eds.], Patch Dynamics in Terrestrial, Marine, and Freshwater Ecosystems. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
PDF Full, R. J. and M. A. R. Koehl (1993) Drag and lift on running insects. J. Exp. Biol. 176: 89-101.
PDF Kingsolver, J. G. and M. A. R. Koehl (1994) Selective factors in the evolution of insect wings. Ann. Rev. of Entomol. 39: 425-451.
PDF Loudon, C., B. A. Best, and M. A. R. Koehl (1994) When does motion relative to neighboring surfaces alter the flow through an array of hairs? J. Exp. Biol. 193: 233-254.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. and T. M. Powell (1994) Turbulent transport of larvae near wave-swept shores: Does water motion overwhelm larval sinking? pp. 261-274 In H. Wilson, G. Shinn, and S. Stricker [eds.], Reproduction and Development of Marine Invertebrates. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore, MD.
PDF Johnson, A. J. and M. A. R. Koehl (1994) Maintainence of dynamic strain similarity and environmental stress factor in different flow habitats: Thallus allometry and material properties of a giant kelp. J. Exp. Biol. 195: 381-410.
PDF Davidson, L. A., M. A. R. Koehl, R. Keller, and G. F. Oster (1995) How do sea urchins gastrulate? Distinguishing between mechanisms of primary invagination using biomechanics. Development 121: 2005-2018.
PDF Moore, S. W., R. E. Keller, and M. A. R. Koehl. (1995) The dorsal marginal zone stiffens anisotropically during its convergent extension in the gastrula of Xenopus laevis. Development. 121: 3131-3140.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1995) Fluid flow through hair-bearing appendages: Feeding, smelling, and swimming at low and intermediate Reynolds number. In C.P. Ellington T. J. Pedley [eds.], Biological Fluid Dynamics, Soc. Exp. Biol. Symp. 49: 157-182.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1996) Small-Scale fluid dynamics of olfactory antennae. Mar. Fresh. Behav. Physiol. 27: 127-141.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1996) When does morphology matter? Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 27: 501-542.
PDF Shimeta, Jeff and M. A. R. Koehl (1997) Mechanisms of particle selection by tentaculate suspension feeders during encounter, retention, and handling. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 209: 47-73.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R., T. M. Powell, and E. L. Dobbins (1997) Effects of algal turf on mass transport and flow microhabitat of ascidians in a coral reef lagoon. Proc. 8th Int. Coral Reef Symp. 2: 1087-1092.
PDF Elul, T., M. A. R. Koehl, and R. Keller (1997) Cellular mechanisms underlying neural convergent extension in Xenopus laevis embryos: Neural deep cell explants. Devel. Biol. 191: 243-258.
PDF Edlund, A. F. and M. A. R. Koehl. (1998) Adhesion and reattachment of compound ascidians to various substrata. J. Exp. Biol. 201: 2397-2402.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1998) Physiological, ecological, and evolutionary consequences of the hydrodynamics of individual organisms. OEUVRE, (published electronically: www.joss.ucar.edu/joss_psg/project/oce_workshop/oeuvre/)
PDF Martinez, M. M., R. J. Full, and M. A. R. Koehl (1998) Underwater punting by an intertidal crab: A novel gait revealed by the kinematics of pedestrian locomotion in air vs. water. J. Exp. Biol. 201: 2609-2623.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1998) Small-scale hydrodynamics of feeding appendages of marine animals. Oceanography 11: 12 -14.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1998) The quirks of jerks. Nature 396: 621-623.
PDF Davidson, L. A., G. F. Oster, R. E. Keller, and M. A. R. Koehl (1999) Measurements of mechanical properties of the blastula wall reveal which hypothesized mechanisms of primary invagination are physically plausible in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Devel. Biol. 209: 221-238.
PDF Mead, K. S., M. A. R. Koehl, and M. J. O'Donnell. (1999) Stomatopod Sniffing: The scaling of chemosensory sensillae and flicking behavior with body size. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 241: 235-261.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (1999) Ecological biomechanics of benthic organisms: Life history, mechanical design and temporal patterns of mechanical stress. J. Exp. Biol. 202: 3469-3476.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (2000) Consequences of size change during ontogeny and evolution. Pp. 67-86 In: Scaling in Biology. J. H. Brown and G. B. West [eds.], Oxford University Press, NY.
PDF Dickinson, M. H., C. T. Farley, R. J. Full, M. A. R. Koehl, R. Kram, and S. Lehman. (2000) How animals move: An integrative view. Science. 288: 100-106.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R., K. J. Quillin, and C. A. Pell. (2000) Mechanical design of fiber-wound hydraulic skeletons: the stiffening and straightening of embryonic notochords. Amer. Zool. 40: 28-41.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (2000) Mechanical design and hydrodynamics of blade-like algae: Chondracanthus exasperatus. pp. 295-308 In: Proc. Third Internat. Conf. Plant Biomechanics. H. C. Spatz and T. Speck [eds.], Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart.
PDF *Loudon, C. and M. A. R. Koehl. (2000) Sniffing by a silkworm moth: Wing fanning enhances air penetration through and pheromone interception by antennae. J. Exp. Biol. 203: 2977-2990.

    * This paper was featured in the "Editor's Choice" section of Science :
        (2000) Fanning the Flame. Science 289: 2007

PDF Mead, K. S. and M. A. R. Koehl (2000) Stomatopod antennule design: The asymmetry, sampling efficiency, and ontogeny of olfactory flicking. J. Exp. Biol. 203: 3795-3808.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (2001) Fluid dynamics of animal appendages that capture molecules: Arthropod olfactory antennae. pp. 97-116 In: Conference Proceedings of the IMA Workshop on Computational Modeling in Biological Fluid Dynamics. L. Fauci and S. Gueron [eds.], IMA Series. #124
PDF Goldman, J. A. and M. A. R. Koehl. (2001) Fluid dynamic design of lobster olfactory organs: High-speed kinematic analysis of antennule flicking by Panulirus argus. Chemical Senses 26: 385-398.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R., Helmuth, B. and R. Carpenter (2001) Growing and Flowing, pp. 17-29 In: The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges and Corals. J. A. Kaandorp and J. E. Kubler [eds.], Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (2001) Transitions in function at low Reynolds number: Hair-bearing animal appendages. Math. Meth. Appl. Sci. 24: 1523-1532.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R., J. R. Koseff, J. P. Crimaldi, M G. McCay, T. Cooper, M. B. Wiley, and P. A. Moore (2001) Lobster sniffing: Antennule design and hydrodynamic filtering of information in an odor plume. Science. 294: 1948-1951
PDF Stacey, M., K. S. Mead, and M. A. R. Koehl (2002) Molecule capture by olfactory antennules: Mantis shrimp. J. Math. Biol. 44: 1-30.
PDF Crimaldi, J. P., M. A. R. Koehl, and J. R. Koseff (2002) Effects of the resolution and behavior of olfactory appendages on the chemical signals they intercept in a turbulent odor plume. Environ. Fluid Mech. 2: 35-63.
PDF Mead, K.S., M.B. Wiley, M.A.R. Koehl, and J.R. Koseff (2003) Fine-scale patterns of odor encounter by the antennules of mantis shrimp tracking turbulent plumes in wave-affected and unidirectional flow. J. Exp. Biol. 206: 181-193.
PDF Gaylord, B., M. W. Denny and M. A. R. Koehl (2003) Modulation of wave forces on kelp canopies by alongshore currents. Limnol. Oceanogr. 48: 860-871.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (2003) Physical modelling in biomechanics. Phil Trans. Roy. Soc. B. 358: 1589-1596.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R., P. Jumars, and L. Karp-Boss (2003) Algal Biophysics. pp. 115-130 In Out of the Past: Collected Reviews to Celebrate the Jubilee of the British Phycological society. T. A. Norton [ed.], Belfast: The British Phycological Society.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. and M. G. Hadfield (2004) Soluble settlement cue in slowly-moving water within coral reefs induces larval adhesion to surfaces. J. Mar. Sys. 49: 75-88.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (2004) Biomechanics of microscopic appendages: Functional shifts caused by changes in speed. J. Biomech. 37: 789-795.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. and B. D. Wolcott (2004) Can function at the organismal level explain ecological patterns? Ecology 85: 1808-1810.
PDF Hadfield, M. G. and M. A. R. Koehl. (2004) Rapid behavioral responses of an invertebrate larva to dissolved settlement cue. Biological Bulletin 207: 28-43.
PDF Wolgemuth, C. W., Y. Inclan, J. Quan, G. Oster and M. A. R. Koehl (2005) How to make a spiral bacterium. Physical Biology 2: 189-199.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (2006) The fluid mechanics of arthropod sniffing in turbulent odor plumes. Chem. Senses 31: 93-105.
PDF Fonseca, M. S. and M. A. R. Koehl. (2006) Flow in seagrass canopies: the influence of patch width. Est. Coastal Shelf Sci. 67: 1-9.
PDF Hadfield, M. G., A. Faucci, and M. A. R. Koehl. (2007) Measuring recruitment of minute larvae in a complex field environment: The corallivorous nudibranch Phestilla sibogae (Bergh). J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 338: 57-72.
PDF Stewart, H. L., C. E. Payri and M. A. R. Koehl. (2007) The role of buoyancy in mitigating reduced light in macroalgal aggregations. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 343: 11-20.
PDF Fonseca, M. S., M. A. R. Koehl and B. S. Kopp. (2007) Biomechanical factors contributing to self-organization in seagrass landscapes. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 340: 227-246.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R., J. A. Strother, M. A. Reidenbach, J. R. Koseff and M. G. Hadfield. (2007) Individual-based model of larval transport to coral reefs in turbulent, wave-driven flow: behavioral responses to dissolved settlement inducer. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 335: 1-18.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. (2007) Mini review: Hydrodynamics of larval settlement into fouling communities. Biofouling 23: 357-368.
PDF Koehl, M. A. R. and M. A. Reidenbach. (2007) Swimming by microscopic organisms in ambient water flow. Exp. Fluids 43: 755-768.
Rivera, M. W., K. S. Mead, J. R. Koseff and M. A. R. Koehl. How do mantis shrimp use fine-scale odor information encountered by their flicking antennules to track turbulent odor plumes? J. Exp. Biol. (submitted).


  • Public Dissemination Of Research Contributions:

    • I appeared on a "NOVA" televison program (P.B.S.), "Living Machines" (in 1980).
    • An article about my research on copepods, "Active eating in a syrupy sea", appeared in Science News, (Jan. 17, 1981).
    • An article about my research on sea anemones appeared in Newton (Japanese magazine about science), March, 1984.
    • A number of articles about the research on the evolution of insect wings that I did with Joel Kingsolver have appeared in various newspapers. Magazine articles about it include:
      • Gould, S. J. (1985) Not necessarily a wing: Which came first, the function or the form? Natural History 94: 12-25. ("This View of Life" column).
      • Lewin, R. (1985) On the origin of insect wings. Science 230: 428-429. ("Research News" section).
      • (1986) Flights of conjecture. Scientific American 254: 66B. ("Science and the Citizen" section).
      • Morell, V. (1987) The origin of flight. Equinox 32: 13-16.
      I was interviewed about the insect wing research on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's science program, "Quirks and Quarks".
    • My research was profiled in Discover magazine: Franklin, D. (1991) The shape of life. Discover 12: 10-15.
    • I am one of the women featured in a book: Schatz, H. (1992) Gifted Woman, Pacific Photographic Press, and in a show ("Gifted Woman") at the Oakland Museum in 1993.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV Science Unit filmed (in 1992) a piece about my research for their science series "Quantum".
    • I was one of the people featured in: Smith, A. D. (1995) Bay area brain trust: 101 achievers who make this the smartest place on earth. San Francisco Focus Magazine 42: 30 -47.
    • I am one of the scientists featured in: Sherrer, B.F. and B.S. Sherrer [eds.] (1996) Notable Women Scientists in the Life Sciences. Greenwood Publishing, Westport, CN.
    • Research Kate Loudon and I did on the fluid dynamics of molecule capture by moth antennae was featured in the "Editor's Choice" section of Science: (2000) Fanning the Flame. Science 289: 2007.
    • Research on how olfactory antennules of marine animals capture odor signals from turbulent currents that I did with J. Koseff has been featured in television (Canadian Discover, Tech TV) and radio (PBS "Todd Mundt Show"; CBC "Quirks and Quarks") shows as well as in many newspaper articles (e.g. New York Times) (2001 and 2002)
    • I am one of the scientists featured in: Gladfelter, Elizabeth Higgins. 2002. Agassiz's Legacy: Scientists' Reflections on the Value of Field Experience. New York: Oxford University Press. 437 pp.
    • I am one of the scientists featured in the series of children's books, "Women's Adventures in Science" sponsored by the National Academies of Science: Parks, D. (2005) Nature's Machines. Joseph Henry Press, and Scholastic.