Biodiversity ‘hotspots’, patterns of richness and endemism, and taxonomic affinities of tropical Australian sponges (Porifera)

By J. Hooper, J. A. Kennedy, R. Quinn. Biodiversity and Conservation, 2002

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On the use of abiotic surrogates to describe marine benthic biodiversity (2010, background): “For example, tropical Australian sponges are best represented at a medium scale of diversity, rather than at local or coarse regional scales (Hooper et al., 2002).”
Global Diversity of Sponges (Porifera) (2012, background): “MEOWs with high species numbers may be adjacent to very poor ones, often explained by habitat differences (e.g. the 295 species recorded for the Celtic Sea are contrasted by 140 species of the North Sea for reasons of lack of hard substratum in the latter region), but very often also because explora”
Rapid diversity and abundance decline in a Caribbean coral reef sponge community (2006, background): “…more diverse than corals (e.g., 640 Caribbean sponge species, van Soest, 1994, and 2324 sponge species from tropical and warm temperate Australia, Hooper et al., 2002), more abundant than corals in many areas (e.g., Diaz and Rü tzler, 2001), and play key functional roles (Diaz and Rü tzler,…”