Redwood of the reef: growth and age of the giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta in the Florida Keys

By S. McMurray, J. Blum, J. Pawlik. 2008

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Subfields: Biotechnology, Ecology, Ocean Engineering

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In Biotechnology

1. J. Pawlik
2. S. McMurray
3. P. Erwin
4. Amber D. Stubler
5. C. Finelli
6. J. Porter

In Ecology

1. J. Pawlik
2. S. McMurray
3. P. Erwin
4. C. Finelli
5. Amber D. Stubler
6. J. Porter

In Ocean Engineering

1. J. Pawlik
2. Amber D. Stubler
3. S. McMurray
4. C. Finelli
5. P. Erwin

Citations in the corpus

• Temporal changes in benthic assemblages on Florida Keys reefs 11 years after the 1997/1998 El Niño (2013, background): “…in which sponges have become the predominant taxa have been described for other Caribbean localities, but they have been achieved by small or encrusting morphotypes (Aronson et al. 2002, Rutzler 2002, Weil et al. 2002) rather than large, slow-growing species like X. muta (McMurray et al. 2008).”
• A test of the sponge-loop hypothesis for emergent Caribbean reef sponges (2018, methodology): “In contrast, chemically defended individuals that grow relatively slowly and may be longlived (McMurray et al. 2008) may be important for the sequestration and storage of carbon as biomass.”
• The Chemical Ecology of Sponges on Caribbean Reefs: Natural Products Shape Natural Systems (2011, background): “Moreover, sponges are long-lived organisms, with age estimates in the hundreds to thousands of years for X. muta (McMurray et al. 2008).”