Subject Index
absorption patterns 142
acceleration reaction force
- equation 20
accretive growth 42, 125
accretive growth model
- approximated growth velocities 128
- basic size skeleton element 128
- comparison transplantation
experiments 153
- geometrical model 127
- growth axes 130
- growth function 128
- initial parameters 130
- isomone 139
- light-driven 137, 141
- nutrient-driven 131,141
algorithm 133
- triangulation 130
Acropora formosa 148
Acropora palmata 141
aggregates
- absorption 124
- asymmetry 123
- compactness 124
- radial symmetry 123
aggregation model
- algorithm 120
- equation growth 117
alcyonaceans 48
allografts 57
allometric constraints
- octocorals 48
amount of contact with the
environment 128
Anabaena catenula 92
anastomosis 72, 78
- stony corals 65
anisotropy 139
apoptosis 60
aquacultures 11, 159
aquiferous system 58
- sponges 42
aragonite 55
architectures
- growth processes 171
autografts 57
autotrophy 54
Axinella polypoides 141
bacterial colonies 5
b_anglebranching angle 78
bidirectional flow 119
Bilateria 9
bioarchives 11, 12, 160, 170
biomonitoring 11, 169
body axes 8
body plan 8
- cnidarians 43
- sponges 57
Boltzmann molecular chaos assumption
102
Bostrychia radicans 95
boundary layer 17,22
branch spacing 76
- br_spacing 79
- Madracis mirabi/is 29
branching networks 67
branching patterns
- gorgonians 74
breakability
- marine sessile organisms 22
brown seaweeds 5, 30
Calcarea 59
calcification rates
- stony corals 66
Callithamnion roseum 2
Cambrian explosion 56
cancer 11, 60
- cytotoxic compounds 159
catabolic enzymes 60
cellular automata 100
center of gravity 136
- aggregates 119
Chaetomorpha linum 94
chimera 64
Chlamydomonas nivalis 143
Chondrus crispus 97
cnidarians 5
coenen chyme 48
collision operator
- FHP model 104
Computed Tomography scanning 87
continuity equation 15
- lattice gas 103
coral bleaching 10
coralline algae 3, 5, 11
corallite 55
Corallium rubrum 6
da maximal thickness of a branch 78
damage during growth
- sponges 37
db minimal thickness of a branch 78
demosponges 5, 59
density
- lattice gas 101
density bands 55,163
density variations
- stony corals 88
deposition processes
- marine sessile organisms 7
- physical 5
Desmophyllum cristagalli 11
determinate growth 1
dichotomous branching 112
diffuse reflection 138
diffusion coefficient D 143
diffusion equation 110
diffusion limited aggregation 12, 115,
116
- growth equation 116
diffusive boundary layer 23
absorption patterns 142
acceleration reaction force
- equation 20
accretive growth 42, 125
accretive growth model
- approximated growth velocities 128
- basic size skeleton element 128
- comparison transplantation
experiments 153
- geometrical model 127
- growth axes 130
- growth function 128
- initial parameters 130
- isomone 139
- light-driven 137, 141
- nutrient-driven 131,141
algorithm 133
- triangulation 130
Acropora formosa 148
Acropora palmata 141
aggregates
- absorption 124
- asymmetry 123
- compactness 124
- radial symmetry 123
aggregation model
- algorithm 120
- equation growth 117
alcyonaceans 48
allografts 57
allometric constraints
- octocorals 48
amount of contact with the
environment 128
Anabaena catenula 92
anastomosis 72, 78
- stony corals 65
anisotropy 139
apoptosis 60
aquacultures 11, 159
aquiferous system 58
- sponges 42
aragonite 55
architectures
- growth processes 171
autografts 57
autotrophy 54
Axinella polypoides 141
bacterial colonies 5
b_anglebranching angle 78
bidirectional flow 119
Bilateria 9
bioarchives 11, 12, 160, 170
biomonitoring 11, 169
body axes 8
body plan 8
- cnidarians 43
- sponges 57
Boltzmann molecular chaos assumption
102
Bostrychia radicans 95
boundary layer 17,22
branch spacing 76
- br_spacing 79
- Madracis mirabi/is 29
branching networks 67
branching patterns
- gorgonians 74
breakability
- marine sessile organisms 22
brown seaweeds 5, 30
Calcarea 59
calcification rates
- stony corals 66
Callithamnion roseum 2
Cambrian explosion 56
cancer 11, 60
- cytotoxic compounds 159
catabolic enzymes 60
cellular automata 100
center of gravity 136
- aggregates 119
Chaetomorpha linum 94
chimera 64
Chlamydomonas nivalis 143
Chondrus crispus 97
cnidarians 5
coenen chyme 48
collision operator
- FHP model 104
Computed Tomography scanning 87
continuity equation 15
- lattice gas 103
coral bleaching 10
coralline algae 3, 5, 11
corallite 55
Corallium rubrum 6
da maximal thickness of a branch 78
damage during growth
- sponges 37
db minimal thickness of a branch 78
demosponges 5, 59
density
- lattice gas 101
density bands 55,163
density variations
- stony corals 88
deposition processes
- marine sessile organisms 7
- physical 5
Desmophyllum cristagalli 11
determinate growth 1
dichotomous branching 112
diffuse reflection 138
diffusion coefficient D 143
diffusion equation 110
diffusion limited aggregation 12, 115,
116
- growth equation 116
diffusive boundary layer 23