General Editor: Peter Calow, Department of Zoology, University of Sheffield, England The main aim of this series will be to illustrate and to explain the way organisms 'make a living' in nature. At the heart of this - their Junctional biology - is the way organisms acquire and then make use of resources in metabolism, movement, growth, reproduction, and so on. These processes will form the fundamental framework of all the books in the series. Each book will concentrate on a particular taxon (species, family, class or even phylum) and will bring together information on the form, physiology, ecology and evolutionary biology of the group. The aim will be not only to describe how organisms work, but also to consider why they have come to work in that way. By concentrating on taxa which are well known, it is hoped that the series will not only illustrate the success of selection, but also show the constraints imposed upon it by the physiological, morphological and developmental limitations of the groups. Another important feature of the series will be its organismic orientation. Each book will emphasize the importance of functional integration in the day-to-day lives and the evolution of organisms. This is crucial since, though it may be true that organisms can be considered as collections of gene determined traits, they nevertheless interact with their environment as integrated wholes and it is in this context that individual traits have been subjected to natural selection and have evolved.

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University of Maine, Orono, USA

J. Malcolm Shick

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Book Title: A Functional Biology of Sea Anemones
Authors: J. Malcolm Shick
Series Title: Functional Biology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3080-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-412-33150-3Published: 02 May 1991
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5365-5Published: 05 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3080-6Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 395
Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Overview of sea anemones

Nutrition

Energy metabolism and respiratory gas exchange

Nitrogen excretion and osmotic balance

Growth

Reproduction and population structure

Biotic interactions

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