Assessing and monitoring coral reef sponges: Why and how?

By J. Wulff. 2001

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Trade-offs in resistance to competitors and predators, and their effects on the diversity of tropical marine sponges (2005, background): “dant, and are players of key functional roles in tropical marine systems (e.g. Paulay 1997; Diaz & Riitzler 2001; Wulff 2001).”
Rapid diversity and abundance decline in a Caribbean coral reef sponge community (2006, methodology): “Sponges are known to play diverse functional roles that directly affect coral survival and reef health, but taxonomic and quantification challenges have stymied inclusion of sponges in reef monitoring (Rützler, 1978; Wulff, 2001).”
The functional roles of marine sponges (2008, background): “…importance of boring sponges has been highlighted by previous reviews (Rützler, 1978, 2004; Wilkinson, 1983a; Glynn, 1997; Diaz and Rützler, 2001; Wulff, 2001), and the large number of recent taxonomic papers describing new species of boring sponges further identifies this sponge group as…”
Nutrient Fluxes and Ecological Functions of Coral Reef Sponges in a Changing Ocean (2017, background): “…w he th er th ey a re h ig h or lo w m ic ro bi al a bu nd an ce ( H M A o r L M A ) J.M. de Goeij et al. 385 species on coral reefs in which sponge growth (i.e. measured as linear extension or as a volumetric increase in mass) is substantial (Hoppe 1988, Wulff 2001, Lesser 2006, Trussell et al.”