Acknowledgements
The work described in this book could be completed thanks to the support
and contributions of many persons. The whole project, writing a book on
the state of the art of modeling and simulating the growth and form of
seaweeds, sponges , and stony corals, was initiated in a meeting at the National
Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara (California)
that we organized in August 1999(see below). This meeting was very inspiring
and successful; afterwards we requested several participants to contribute
sections in their field of expertise to this book. We and the contributors
would like to thank many persons.
Bastien Chopard and Peter Sloot wish to thank Alfons Hoekstra and
Benno Overeinder from the University of Amsterdam as well as Alexandre
Masselot and Alexandre Dupuis from the University of Geneva for their
contribution and assistance in preparing their section.
Ligia Collado Vides wants to thank Gerardo Rivas for the generation of
the figures in her section.
Steve Dudgeon would like to thank Peter Edmunds for permitting use of
the photographs shown in Fig. 2.23aand b.
Susanne Gatti wants to thank Julian Gutt (Alfred-Wegener-Institute for
Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany) for permitting use of
the photographs of Antarctic sponges (Figs. 6.1 and 6.2).
[aap Kaandorp's work was partly carried out within the MPR (Massive Parallel Computing) project "The discreteness-continuity dichotomy in
individual-based population dynamics using massively parallel machines"
funded by the Dutch Foundation for Scientific Research.
Janet Kubler wishes to thank Bob Jackson (Surface Physics Laboratory, University of Maine, USA) for many inspiring conversations about
mathematics and biology which, in part, made this whole collaboration
possible .
Soyoka Muko wishes to thank the members of the meeting at the National
Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis for their stimulating discussions;
she would also like to thank Y. Iwasa, K. Sakai, and N. Shigesada for helpful
suggestions during the preparation of her contribution.
Buki Rinkevich's work was conducted at the Minerva Center for Marine
Invertebrate Immunology and Development Biology and was also supported
by the AID-CDR.
We would like to thank Rob van Soest (Institute for Systematics and
Population Biology, University of Amsterdam) for allowing us the use of
collection material and for introducing us to the natural products from
The work described in this book could be completed thanks to the support
and contributions of many persons. The whole project, writing a book on
the state of the art of modeling and simulating the growth and form of
seaweeds, sponges , and stony corals, was initiated in a meeting at the National
Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara (California)
that we organized in August 1999(see below). This meeting was very inspiring
and successful; afterwards we requested several participants to contribute
sections in their field of expertise to this book. We and the contributors
would like to thank many persons.
Bastien Chopard and Peter Sloot wish to thank Alfons Hoekstra and
Benno Overeinder from the University of Amsterdam as well as Alexandre
Masselot and Alexandre Dupuis from the University of Geneva for their
contribution and assistance in preparing their section.
Ligia Collado Vides wants to thank Gerardo Rivas for the generation of
the figures in her section.
Steve Dudgeon would like to thank Peter Edmunds for permitting use of
the photographs shown in Fig. 2.23aand b.
Susanne Gatti wants to thank Julian Gutt (Alfred-Wegener-Institute for
Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany) for permitting use of
the photographs of Antarctic sponges (Figs. 6.1 and 6.2).
[aap Kaandorp's work was partly carried out within the MPR (Massive Parallel Computing) project "The discreteness-continuity dichotomy in
individual-based population dynamics using massively parallel machines"
funded by the Dutch Foundation for Scientific Research.
Janet Kubler wishes to thank Bob Jackson (Surface Physics Laboratory, University of Maine, USA) for many inspiring conversations about
mathematics and biology which, in part, made this whole collaboration
possible .
Soyoka Muko wishes to thank the members of the meeting at the National
Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis for their stimulating discussions;
she would also like to thank Y. Iwasa, K. Sakai, and N. Shigesada for helpful
suggestions during the preparation of her contribution.
Buki Rinkevich's work was conducted at the Minerva Center for Marine
Invertebrate Immunology and Development Biology and was also supported
by the AID-CDR.
We would like to thank Rob van Soest (Institute for Systematics and
Population Biology, University of Amsterdam) for allowing us the use of
collection material and for introducing us to the natural products from