The natural diet of a hexactinellid sponge: Benthic–pelagic coupling in a deep-sea microbial food web

By A. Pile, C. Young. 2006

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Subfields: Biotechnology, Ecology, Immunology

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Richness and distribution of sponge megabenthos in continental margin canyons off southeastern Australia (2007, background): “Sponges are known to graze primarily on the ultraplankton (plankton 5 µm) fraction of the water column (Pile & Young 2006), mainly because the upper size limit of ingestible food is set by the diameter of the ostia and the anatomy of the aquiferous system (Bergquist 1978).”
The distribution of deep-sea sponge aggregations in the North Atlantic and implications for their effective spatial management (2016, background): “Sponges are suspension feeders and recent studies have demonstrated the importance of sponge feeding to bentho-pelagic coupling in the deep sea (Pile and Young 2006; Yahelet al., 2007), with sponges representing an important link between carbon in the water column in the form of ultraplankton and…”
Glass sponges arrest pumping in response to sediment: implications for the physiology of the hexactinellid conduction system (2008, result): “(Pile and Young 2006), however, similar experiments on A. vastus and R. dawsoni, show that small heterotrophic protists and up to 99% of the most abundant bacterial cells were retained, and inorganic sediment was excreted (Yahel et al. 2006).”
The functional roles of marine sponges (2008, background): “, 1999), with more recent studies also highlighting the importance of sponge feeding to bentho-pelagic coupling in the deep sea (Pile and Young, 2006).”
Sponge Grounds as Key Marine Habitats: A Synthetic Review of Types, Structure, Functional Roles, and Conservation Concerns (2016, background): “The sponge aggregation is estimated to consume about 55 mg C and 7.3 mg N m 2 d 1, being a significant regional player in the deep-sea microbial food web (Pile and Young 2006).”
Deep-sea sponge grounds enhance diversity and abundance of epibenthic megafauna in the Northwest Atlantic (2013, background): “The large amount of water processed by such benthic filter-feeders [Vogel (1977) reported that a 1-kg sponge filters 24 000 l daily] and empirical evidence for the magnitude of the carbon flux in some species indicates that they form a strong link between the pelagic microbial foodweb and the bentho”