The basic definitions and a history of the development biomimetics as discipline that considers nature-inspired design are presented in this paper. discussion results application principles machine elements given. fact transition zones Nature chose designed on trees many cases survived for more than hundred years, resisting various variable external loads other conditions, is considered. Presen...

The development of the root apex is determined by progress of cells from the meristematic region to the successive post-mitotic developmental zones for transition, cell elongation and final cell differentiation. We addressed root development, tissue architecture and root developmental zonation by means of light-sheet microscopic imaging of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings expressing END BINDING p...

The seasonal analysis of vegetation can be considered as looking for fundamental redundant information and detecting, at the same time, the natural changes of the vegetative cover undergone by the observed scene. From the statistical point of view, the redundant information can be quantified by the correlation coefficients between the multi-temporal images while the natural changes can be consi...

Abiotic filtering is a major driver of gradients in the structure and functioning of ecosystems from the tropics to the poles. It is thus likely that environmental filtering is an important assembly process at the transition of biogeographical zones where many species occur at their range limits. Shifts in species abundances and association patterns along environmental gradients can be indicati...

A number of observations indicate that an upper stability transition occurs along well-developed faults, such as the San Andreas, as a result of unconsolidated gouge within shallow regions of these faults. These observations include the depth distribution of seismicity along faults with and without well-developed gouge zones, correlations between seismicity and shallow crustal structure, and mo...