1991
DOI: 10.1007/bf01986357
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Application of tree architectural models to reef-coral growth forms

Abstract: Abstract. With the aim of gaining a better understanding of constant traits in coral colony form, architectural methods used for tropical trees were applied to 16 hermatypic ramose coral species of the Seribu archipelago (North of Jakarta, Java Sea, Indonesia), in 1983. Architectural analysis of colonies has distinguished four simple and stable architectural models. A new interpretation of coral colony form is proposed using both the architectural model and the reiteration of the model.

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“…Architectural methods used to describe growth in tropical trees have been used to describe coral growth, including Fungia (Dauget, 1991). Fungiid corals provide an attractive experimental model because members of this family show considerable diversity in structure and developmental pattern.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Architectural methods used to describe growth in tropical trees have been used to describe coral growth, including Fungia (Dauget, 1991). Fungiid corals provide an attractive experimental model because members of this family show considerable diversity in structure and developmental pattern.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The morphogenesis of corals is driven by the interplay between genetic and environmental factors. It is thought that genetic factors regulate the branching patterns of corals, since in many corals the branches are added according to strict architectural rules (Dauget, 1991). In Stylophora pistillata such rules can generate nearly spherical colonies, that regenerate when damaged Loya (1976) (reviewed in Rinkevich, 2001Rinkevich, ,2002.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Despite the relative morphological simplicity of each module (at both, the polyp- and the branch-module levels), branching corals may generate complex architectures, at a third level of organization (the colony [18], [19]), that are either conserved or changed during the lifespan of any specific colony. Whereas some studies contend that coral plastic formation is driven entirely, or mainly, by environmental factors [12], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], other studies elucidate the importance of genetically predetermined traits in construction of colonial architecture [8], [18], [19], [25], [26], [27]. Branching coral species, while altering between plastic morphological traits, present characteristic species-specific architectural rules and branching patterns that are expressed in harmony between modules and levels of organization; all for the assemblage of final colonial landscape.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%