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The development of adaptations aimed at reducing hydrodynamic resistance is one of the most important aspects of adaptation to the nektonic mode of life and constitutes one of the most general specific features of nektonic animals, since the total hydrodynamic resistance encountered by a nektonic animal determines the overall expenditure of energy required by the given ecology. The task of reducing the hydrodynamic resistance encountered by the animal boils down, as we have seen, to reducing form drag, friction drag and induced drag.
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© 1977 Dr. W. Junk b.v., Publishers, The Hague
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Aleyev, Y.G. (1977). Reducing Resistance to Movement. In: Nekton. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1324-6_6
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