SGER: Dynamics of Cnidarian Vascular Systems

众所周知，珊瑚对高温非常敏感， 敏感性已经成为关于响应性的辩论的框架， 全球气候变化的影响。 该项目将 探索珊瑚血管系统的动力学方面， 珊瑚虫和匍匐茎或振荡器的相互连接系统。 巴斯 假设珊瑚白化，最终死亡， 是由血管系统大小的混乱变化引起的。 为了探索这种可能性，巴斯计划改变 通过匍匐茎的胃血管流量实验和监测 匍匐茎的径向直径使用复杂的视频和图像 分析. 然后，为了可视化血管的混沌行为， 系统，耦合振荡器的空间网格将被开发。 该模型应预测珊瑚的行为动力学的基础上， 微扰研究的生活材料，并导致更好的 了解为什么珊瑚会采用特殊的结构形式。

Corals are notoriously sensitive to elevated temperatures and this sensitivity has come to frame debates regarding the responsiveness of reef systems to global climate change. This project will explore aspects of the dynamics of the coral vascular system, an inter-connecting system of polyps and stolons or oscillators. Buss hypothesizes that coral bleaching, and ultimately mortality, results from the chaotic change in the size of the vascular system. To explore this possibility, Buss plans to alter the velocity of gastrovascular flow through stolons experimentally and to monitor radial diameter of stolons using sophisticated video and image analysis. Then, to visualize the chaotic behavior of the vascular system, a spatial grid of coupled oscillators will be developed. The model should predict the behavior dynamics of corals based on perturbation studies of living material and lead to a better understanding why corals adopt specific structural forms.