Coelenterate Ecology and Behavior

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Water Flow in the Ecology of Benthic Cnidaria

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Water Flow in the Ecology of Benthic Cnidaria

      • G. O. Mackie

      Pages 3-3

   3. The Nature of Flow and the Reaction of Benthic Cnidaria to It

      • S. A. Wainwright, M. A. R. Koehl

      Pages 5-21

   4. Mechanical Design in Sea Anemones

      • M. A. R. Koehl

      Pages 23-31

   5. Hydroid Skeletons and Fluid Flow

      • Gordon R. Murdock

      Pages 33-40

   6. The Orientation of Aglaophenia Fans to Current in Laboratory Conditions (Hydrozoa, Coelenterata)

      • Armin Svoboda

      Pages 41-48

3. General Ecology of Bottom-Living Forms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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   2. Competitive Interactions and the Species Diversity of Corals

      • J. H. Connell

      Pages 51-58

   3. Habitat-Related Patterns of Productivity of the Foliaceous Reef Coral, Pavona Praetorta Dana

      • David S. Wethey, James W. Porter

      Pages 59-66

   4. The Ecology of Caribbean Sea Anemones in Panama: Utilization of Space on a Coral Reef

      • Kenneth P. Sebens

      Pages 67-77

   5. Growth Interactions Among Morphological Variants Of The Coral Acropora Palifera

      • D. C. Potts

      Pages 79-88

   6. Settlement, Mortality and Recruitment of a Red Sea Scleractinian Coral Population

      • Y. Loya

      Pages 89-100

   7. Intraspecific Variability of Zooplankton Feeding in the Hermatypic Coral Montastrea Cavernosa

      • Howard R. Lasker

      Pages 101-109

   8. Accumulation of Dissolved Carbon by the Solitary Coral Balanophyllia Elegans — an Alternative Nutritional Pathway?

      • Peter V. Fankboner

      Pages 111-116

   9. Regulation of Feequency of Pedal Laceration in a Sea Anemone

      • Nathan Smith III, Howard M. Lenhoff

      Pages 117-125

   10. The Acrorhagial Response in Anthopleura Krebs I: Intraspecific and Interspecific Recognition

       • Charles H. Bigger

       Pages 127-136

   11. Ecological Physiology and Genetics of the Colonizing Actinian Haliplanella Luciae

       • J. Malcolm Shick

       Pages 137-146

   12. Nutrition Experimentale chez les Cerianthaires

       • Yves Tiffon

       Pages 147-153

   13. Fouling Community Structure: Effects of the Hydroid, Obelia Dichotoma, on Larval Recruitment

       • Jon D. Standing

       Pages 155-164

The study of coelenterates is now one of the most active fields of invertebrate zoology. There are many reasons for this, and not everyone would agree on them, but certain facts stand out fairly clearly. One of them is that many of the people who study coelenterates do so simply because they are interested in the animals for their own sake. This, however, would be true for other invertebrate groups and cannot by itself explain the current boom in coelenterate work. The main reasons for all this activity seem to lie in the considerable concentration of research effort and funding into three broad, general areas of biology: marine ecology, cellular-developmental biology and neurobiology, in all of which coelenterates have a key role to play. They are the dominant organisms, or are involved in an important way, in a variety of marine habitats, of which coral reefs are only one, and this automatically ensures their claims on the attention of ecologists and marine scientists. Secondly, the convenience of hydra and some other hydroids as experimental animals has long made them a natural choice for a variety of studies on growth, nutrition, symbiosis, morphogenesis and sundry aspects of cell biology. Finally, the phylogenetic position of the coelenterates as the lowest metazoans having a nervous system makes them uniquely interesting to those neurobiologists and behaviorists who hope to gain insights into the functioning of higher nervous systems by working up from the lowest level.

• Cnidaria
• Metazoa
• Seen
• Symbiose
• behavior
• development
• ecology
• environment
• morphology
• nervous system
• neurobiology
• plankton
• species diversity
• temperature
• zoology

• University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

  G. O. Mackie

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