This review surveys the large variety of mechanical interactions between wind and plants,
from plant organs to plant systems. These interactions range from leaf flutter to uprooting …

Plant vibrations is a wide subject that covers topics ranging from the swaying of trees under
wind to elastic waves made by an insect on a leaf to communicate with its neighbors. For this …

Human collective behavior can vary from calm to panicked depending on social context.
Using videos publicly available online, we study the highly energized collective motion of …

The interaction between wind dynamics and the waving of crop canopies is explored. On-
site experiments with wheat and alfalfa fields have allowed us to quantify the motion of a …

Accurate measurements of atmospheric flows at metre-scale resolution are essential for
many sustainability applications, including optimal design of wind and solar farms …

Plant sensitivity to mechanical stimuli is obvious when observing the movements of Mimosa
pudica leaflets when they are touched [1] or those of the Venus fly trap [2]. It is now well …

Coherent waving interactions between vegetation and fluid flows are known to emerge
under conditions associated with the mixing layer instability. A similar waving motion has …

Aquatic plants in natural rivers are essentially important components of ecosystems. In
vegetated canopy open-channel flow, velocity profiles are changed largely in the vertical …

In order to investigate the possibility of modelling plant motion at the landscape scale, an
equation for crop plant motion, forced by an instantaneous velocity field, is introduced in a …

Background Stalk lodging is an impediment to improving profitability and production
efficiency in maize. Lodging resistance, a comprehensive indicator to appraise genotypes …