Branching and Self-Organization in Marine Modular Colonial Organisms: An Ecological Approach
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(1) Department of Biological Sciences, 109 Cooke Hall, University at Buffalo (The State University of New York), Buffalo, NY 14260, USA. [email protected]; [email protected] phone: 716-645-2881; fax: 717-645-2975 (2) Departamento de Matematicas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. [email protected] phone 011-571-2692265; fax 011-571-2697853 (3) Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, (The State University of New York), NY 14260, USA. (716) 645-2722 x29 [email protected]
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