Bryozoan Evolution

- Contents

Preface
1. Bryozoans as modular machines
1.1. Modular construction
1.2. Integration of modules
1.3. Major taxa of marine Bryozoa
2. Species relationships and evolution
2.1. Morphological characterization of species
2.2. Is morphology adequate?
2.3. Inferred species evolution and lineages
2.4. Untested phylogenies
3. Growth and form
3.1. Encrusting growth
3.2. Erect growth
3.3. Free-living growth
3.4. Rooted growth
4. Growth forms as adaptive strategies
4.1. Frequencies of growth forms among major taxa
4.2. Growth form model
4.3. Zooidal characteristics and colony form
4.4. Environmental distributions
4.5. Growth forms in the fossil record
4.6. Growth forms as adaptive strategies
5. Bryozoan life histories
5.1. Reproductive ecology
5.2. Six case studies
5.3. Life history patterns
5.4. Size and age
5.5. Dispersal
5.6. Heterogeneity within colonies
6. Feeding: a major sculptor of bryozoan form
6.1. Form
6.2. Feeding structures
6.3. Feeding currents and behavior
6.4. Feeding and colony form
7. Encrusting growth: the importance of biological interactions
7.1. Short-lived or unstable substrata
7.2. Substrata of intermediate longevity and stability
7.3. Long-lived, stable substrata
7.4. Settlement panels
7.5. Characteristics of abundant encrusting bryozoans on stable substrata
7.6. Paleoecology of encrusting bryozoans
8. Erect growth: problems of breakage and flow
8.1. Effects of erect growth
8.2. Flexible erect growth
8.3. Rigidly erect growth
9. Life on and in sediments: problems of substratum stability
9.1. Free-living bryozoans
9.2. Rooted bryozoans
9.3. Interstitial bryozoans
9.4. Major evolutionary trends
10. Trends in bryozoan evolution
10.1. Trends in the design, distribution, and relative frequency of growth forms
10.2. Interpretation of trends
References
Index
Biological Sciences: Evolutionary Biology | Paleobiology, Geology, and Paleontology
Earth Sciences: Paleontology
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