Sponges and ascidians control removal of particulate organic nitrogen from coral reef water

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Beyond corals and fish: the effects of climate change on noncoral benthic invertebrates of tropical reefs (2008, background): “Filter feeders may be particularly important to some communities, because they improve the water quality and transport nutrients into the reef infrastructure (Richter et al., 2001; Ribes et al., 2005).”
Particulate nutrient fluxes over a fringing coral reef: relevant scales of phytoplankton production and mechanisms of supply (2010, background): “Likely candidates for particle dependence include cryptic suspension feeders, such as sponges and ascidians (Richter & Wunsch 1999, Ribes et al. 2005, de Goeij & van Duyl 2007), and planktivorous fishes (Hamner et al. 1988, Pinnegar & Polunin 2006, Hamner et al. 2007).”
Intense benthic grazing of phytoplankton in a coral reef (2009, methodology): “However, the nitrogen flux measured by Ribes et al. (2005) and Ribes and Atkinson (2007) in the flume was five times higher than the import inferred from our in situ CoVo measurements.”
Heterotrophy in Tropical Scleractinian Corals (2009, background): “…al., 2002; Houlbrèque et al., 2006), suggesting a potential role of corals in this ingestion although other potential grazers such as sponges, bivalves, tunicates and soft corals will also be involved (Fabricius et al., 1995; Ribes et al., 2005; Houlbrèque et al., 2006; Ribes & Atkinson, 2007).”