Linking local to global properties in branching modular networks: Gorgonian coral colonies

Marine Biology

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1003-1010

  Cadena, Nini Johanna ^a   Rey, Camilo ^a   Hernández Hoyos, Marcela ^a   Sánchez, J Darío ^b   Teillaud, Stanislas ^c   Ardila, Nestor ^a   Sánchez, Juan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD JORGE TADEO LOZANO   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Animal branching colonies; Gorgonian coral; Modular organisms; Pipe model theory; Stem canals; Tree like networks

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CORAL; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALCYONARIA; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; EUNICEA MAMMOSA; GORGONIA; PLEXAURIDAE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 77952430691     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-009-1380-1     Document Type: Article

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