[Coral-List] New review on food limitation of Caribbean sponges
Pawlik, Joseph
pawlikj at uncw.edu
Tue Jan 20 10:27:31 EST 2015
Greetings,
My colleagues and I have just published a review that addresses a confluence of recent and interesting controversies about sponge nutrition (YES, sponges can be both interesting and controversial! Who would have thought it!!). These issues include bottom-up control of Caribbean sponge communities, the "sponge-loop," and the importance of dissolved organic material in sponge nutrition.
Pawlik, J.R., McMurray, S.E., Erwin, P. and Zea, S. 2014.<http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps_oa/m519p265.pdf> A review of evidence for food-limitation of sponges on Caribbean reefs. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 519: 265-283.
The paper is open-access - click on the web link above, or use this link:
http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps_oa/m519p265.pdf
Enjoy!
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Joseph R. Pawlik, Professor,
Dept. of Biology and Marine Biology
UNCW Center for Marine Science
5600 Marvin K Moss Lane
Wilmington, NC 28409
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