Peng Chai

1.9k total citations
18 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Peng Chai is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Aerospace Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peng Chai has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 10 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 9 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Peng Chai's work include Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (10 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (9 papers) and Physiological and biochemical adaptations (6 papers). Peng Chai is often cited by papers focused on Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (10 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (9 papers) and Physiological and biochemical adaptations (6 papers). Peng Chai collaborates with scholars based in United States and Panama. Peng Chai's co-authors include Robert B. Srygley, Robert Dudley, Robert Dudley, James H. Marden, David E. Millard, Andrew C. Chang, Douglas L. Altshuler, Michael E. Dillon and Dustin B. Stephens and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The American Naturalist and Oecologia.

In The Last Decade

Peng Chai

18 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers

Peng Chai
Donald R. Powers United States
Kenneth C. Welch Canada
Ralph V. Cartar Canada
Thomas Breithaupt United Kingdom
Marvin H. Bernstein United States
James D. Crall United States
Melissa S. Bowlin United States
A. S. Edwards United Kingdom
William W. Cochran United States
Crawford H. Greenewalt United States
Donald R. Powers United States
Peng Chai
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Fields of papers citing papers by Peng Chai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peng Chai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Peng Chai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Peng Chai based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Peng Chai. Peng Chai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Altshuler, Douglas L., et al.. (2001). Hovering Performance of Hummingbirds in Hyperoxic Gas Mixtures. Journal of Experimental Biology. 204(11). 2021–2027. 6 indexed citations
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Chai, Peng, Douglas L. Altshuler, Dustin B. Stephens, & Michael E. Dillon. (1999). Maximal Horizontal Flight Performance of Hummingbirds: Effects of Body Mass and Molt. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 72(2). 145–155. 30 indexed citations
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Chai, Peng & Robert Dudley. (1999). Maximum Flight Performance of Hummingbirds: Capacities, Constraints, and Trade‐Offs. The American Naturalist. 153(4). 398–411. 62 indexed citations
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Chai, Peng, Andrew C. Chang, & Robert Dudley. (1998). Flight Thermogenesis and Energy Conservation in Hovering Hummingbirds. Journal of Experimental Biology. 201(7). 963–968. 38 indexed citations
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Chai, Peng, et al.. (1997). Transient Hovering Performance of Hummingbirds Under Conditions of Maximal Loading. Journal of Experimental Biology. 200(5). 921–929. 86 indexed citations
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Chai, Peng & David E. Millard. (1997). Flight and size constraints: hovering performance of large hummingbirds under maximal loading. Journal of Experimental Biology. 200(21). 2757–2763. 95 indexed citations
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Chai, Peng. (1997). Hummingbird Hovering Energetics During Moult of Primary Flight Feathers. Journal of Experimental Biology. 200(10). 1527–1536. 76 indexed citations
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Dudley, Robert & Peng Chai. (1996). Animal Flight Mechanics in Physically Variable Gas Mixtures. Journal of Experimental Biology. 199(9). 1881–1885. 36 indexed citations
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Chai, Peng. (1996). Butterfly visual characteristics and ontogeny of responses to butterflies by a specialized tropical bird. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 59(1). 37–67. 47 indexed citations
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Chai, Peng, et al.. (1996). Hummingbird Hovering Performance in Hyperoxic Heliox: Effects of Body Mass and Sex. Journal of Experimental Biology. 199(12). 2745–2755. 41 indexed citations
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Chai, Peng & Robert Dudley. (1996). Limits to Flight Energetics of Hummingbirds Hovering in Hypodense and Hypoxic Gas Mixtures. Journal of Experimental Biology. 199(10). 2285–2295. 80 indexed citations
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Chai, Peng & Robert Dudley. (1995). Limits to vertebrate locomotor energetics suggested by hummingbirds hovering in heliox. Nature. 377(6551). 722–725. 118 indexed citations
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Marden, James H. & Peng Chai. (1991). Aerial Predation and Butterfly Design: How Palatability, Mimicry, and the Need for Evasive Flight Constrain Mass Allocation. The American Naturalist. 138(1). 15–36. 139 indexed citations
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Srygley, Robert B. & Peng Chai. (1990). Flight morphology of Neotropical butterflies: palatability and distribution of mass to the thorax and abdomen. Oecologia. 84(4). 491–499. 125 indexed citations
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Srygley, Robert B. & Peng Chai. (1990). Predation and the Elevation of Thoracic Temperature in Brightly Colored Neotropical Butterflies. The American Naturalist. 135(6). 766–787. 74 indexed citations
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Chai, Peng & Robert B. Srygley. (1990). Predation and the Flight, Morphology, and Temperature of Neotropical Rain-Forest Butterflies. The American Naturalist. 135(6). 748–765. 209 indexed citations
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Chai, Peng. (1988). Wing Coloration of Free-Flying Neotropical Butterflies as a Signal Learned by a Specialized Avian Predator. Biotropica. 20(1). 20–20. 26 indexed citations
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Chai, Peng. (1986). Field observations and feeding experiments on the responses of rufous-tailed jacamars (Galbula ruficauda) to free-flying butterflies in a tropical rainforest. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 29(3). 161–189. 156 indexed citations

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