monodirectional flow 123
Montastrea annularis 51, 125, 141, 148
morphogens 7
- sponges 57
morphological analysis
- three-dimensional 171
morphological plasticity
- cnidarians 43
- genetic control 63
- hydrozoans 43, 48
- physical environment 76
- seaweeds 33
- sponges 34, 38
- stony corals 51
- temperature 98
morphological skeleton 72, 78
- three-dimensional 89
Muriceopsis 51
myotrophin 58
Navier-Stokes equation 15
Nereocystis luetkeana 21, 24
nutrient gradient 133
octo corals 5, 43, 48
orientation octocorals unidirectional
flow 49
oscillatory flow 23, 30
P-completeness 100
Paenibacillus dendritiformis 5
particle capturing
- corals 30
- flow speed 29
Peeler number 16, 99, 115, 143
perturbation experiments 156
phalanx strategy 97
physical oceanography in the past 11
plexaurid gorgonians 49
Pocillopora damicornis 1,76,77,114,
124
Podocoryne 45, 145
Podocoryne carnea 155
polymorphic polyps 44
polyp
- cnidarians 43
- oscillations 45
- stony coral 55
polyphosphate 60
population dynamics
- individual-based 169
Porites 165
Porites porites 7
Porites sillimaniani 51, 125, 149
SUBJECT INDEX
primmorphs 60
Pseudopterogorgia 51
Pythagoras tree 98
radial symmetry
- accretive growth model 137
radiate accretive architecture 40, 125,
141
radius of curvature 127,129
Raspailia inaequalis 34, 72, 110
rb branching rate 78
recurrent basic shapes 2, 3
red seaweeds 5, 30
- L-system models 94
regeneration, stony corals 66
Reynolds number 16, 23, 99
rhodomorphin 56
rigid organisms 10
ripple formation 109
river networks 68
river systems 74
rotation experiment 154
runner genotypes 45
scaling
- marine sessile organisms 21
Schmidt number 23
scleractinians 5, 43
seawater temperature 168
sedimentation
- lattice Boltzmann model 106
self-shading 138
self-similarity branching networks 70
sheet phenotypes 45
Sherwood number 23
shrubby growth form 112
skeletal growth
- sponges 60
- stony corals 55
skeleton architecture, sponges 40,42
sphere, triangulated 130
spicules 40, 59
sponges 5
- Antarctica 160
- anticancer compounds 159
- growth rates 152, 162
- suspension feeding 125
Stanton number 23
stolon 44
stony corals 43
- calcification rate 165
- extension rate 165
- living tissue 170
- model physiology 172
- photosynthesis 125
- radial symmetry 126
- tissue layer 164
- translocation nutrients 125
- transplantation 147
stromatolites 3, 5
- section 7
Stylocordyla borealis 161
Stylophora pistillata 63,126,155
Suberites domuncula 57
surface area volume ratio 25
surface normal deposition 125
surface rendering 88
suspension-feeding 10,26,114
- corals 27
- octo corals 49
- sponges 27
Sycon raphanus 58
Symbiodinium microadriaticum 54
symbiosis 3
- octo corals 49
- sponges 60
- stony corals 54
telomerase activity 60
thinning algorithm 78
- three-dimensional 89
Tokunaga ratios
- Raspailia inaequalis 73
Tokunaga statistics 70
Tokunaga~law 70
translocation of nutrients 170
translocation of photosynthates 65
transplantation experiments 147
transport suspensions
- lattice Boltzmann model 106
tree rings 160, 168
turbulent flow 23, 171
underwater light models 171
underwater light intensities
- equations 16
unidirectional flow 17, 18,30
unitary organisms 1
vascular networks 68
viscous- fingering 6
volume rendering 88
wave tank
- experiments 21
waves 19
zooxanthellae 54
193