Siliceous sponges as a silicon sink: An overlooked aspect of benthopelagic coupling in the marine silicon cycle

By M. Maldonado, M. C. Carmona, Z. Velásquez, A. Puig, A. Cruzado, Angel López, C. Young. 2005

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Subfields: Biotechnology, Ecology, Ocean Engineering

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In Biotechnology

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2. J. Bell

In Ecology

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2. J. Bell
3. Anna-Leena Downie
4. Andrew Kenny
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6. M. Maldonado
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Citations in the corpus

• The ecology of the sponge larva (2006, background): “In the same Mediterranean sublittoral habitat, the population of the encrusting poecilosclerid demosponge Crambe crambe (Schmidt, 1862), which covers about 12.5% ± 13.3% of rocky substratum at the 5–20 m deep cliff ( Maldonado et al. 2005 ), is estimated to release, on average, about 9375 larvae·m–2”
• The functional roles of marine sponges (2008, background): “However, recent work by Maldonado et al. (2005) has highlighted a potential oversight, and that sponges may indeed be important in global Si cycling.”
• A Review of the Stable Isotope Bio-geochemistry of the Global Silicon Cycle and Its Associated Trace Elements (2018, background): “Until recently, the relevance of marine siliceous sponges on the Si cycle has been largely ignored and their role is currently being re-visited with a biogenic Si production estimated at 3.6 ± 3.7 Tmol yr−1 (Maldonado et al., 2005; Tréguer and De La Rocha, 2013) (Figure 1).”
• The distribution of deep-sea sponge aggregations in the North Atlantic and implications for their effective spatial management (2016, background): “…sublittoral sponges have found that significant uptake rates occur only at silicic acid concentrations higher than those naturally occurring in the sponge habitat, suggesting that these sponge populations are chronically limited by Si availability (Maldonado et al., 2005; Maldonado et al., 2011).”
• Sponge Grounds as Key Marine Habitats: A Synthetic Review of Types, Structure, Functional Roles, and Conservation Concerns (2016, background): “Likewise, the population is estimated to contain a silica standing stock of about 2.7 t per linear km of sponge band, becoming a massive regional silicon sink (Maldonado et al. 2005).”