Benthic-pelagic coupling on coral reefs : Feeding and growth of Caribbean sponges

By Michael Lesser. 2006

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Subfields: Biotechnology, Ecology, Oceanography

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In Biotechnology

1. J. Pawlik
2. S. McMurray
3. P. Erwin
4. Amber D. Stubler
5. C. Finelli
6. J. M. Goeij
7. Michael Lesser
8. J. Bell

In Ecology

1. J. Pawlik
2. S. McMurray
3. J. M. Goeij
4. D. Wagner
5. Michael Lesser
6. M. Slattery
7. C. Finelli
8. P. Erwin

In Oceanography

1. J. Pawlik
2. M. Slattery
3. J. Leichter
4. J. Bell
5. S. McMurray
6. D. Wagner
7. J. M. Goeij
8. P. Erwin

Citations in the corpus

• Microbial indicators as a diagnostic tool for assessing water quality and climate stress in coral reef ecosystems (2017, background): “…associated microbial communities has resulted in studies focused on these specific compartments; however, these habitats should not be considered as isolated from each other but rather seen as parts of a single ecosystem with a strong benthic-pelagic exchange (Lesser 2006; Garren and Azam 2012).”
• Connectivity and stability of mesophotic coral reefs (2011, background): “One possible reason for the observed isotopic signatures is that sponges at all depths are consuming picoplankton (Lesser, 2006) that are isotopically lighter (e.”
• A test of the sponge-loop hypothesis for emergent Caribbean reef sponges (2018, methodology): “Carbon content of each type of picoplankton was estimated using standard cell conversions used in previous studies of sponge feeding (e.g. Pile 1997, Lesser 2006, Morganti et al. 2017): 53 fg C cell−1 for Pro (Morel et al. 1993), 470 fg C cell−1 for Syn (Campbell et al. 1994), 1496 fg C cell−1 for…”
• Redwood of the reef: growth and age of the giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta in the Florida Keys (2008, background): “In contrast, a common tube sponge, Callyspongia vaginalis, was found to grow significantly faster on the deeper slope of Conch Reef (25 m), where picoplankton concentrations were demonstrated to be higher, compared to shallower parts of the reef (14 m; Lesser 2006; Trussell et al. 2006), prompting”
• Ecology of mesophotic coral reefs (2009, background): “Both picoplankton (cyanobacteria and prochlorophytes) and heterotrophic bacteria, the primary food used by sponges, increases with depth to at least 92 m (Lesser, 2006), and the sponges filter these bacteria efficiently with clearance rates of 83–90%.”
• Nutrient Fluxes and Ecological Functions of Coral Reef Sponges in a Changing Ocean (2017, background): “Sponges graze on microbes: buffers DDAM in the future?—Sponges are efficient grazers of microbes, both bacterio- and phytoplankton (e.g., Reiswig 1971; Pile et al. 1996; Ribes et al. 1999; Lesser 2006; Yahel et al. 2007; McMurray et al. 2016).”
• Community ecology of mesophotic coral reef ecosystems (2010, background): “Throughout the Caribbean, abundance of sponges generally increases with depth (Lang et al. 1975; Liddell and Ohlhorst 1988; Liddell et al. 1997; Lesser 2006).”
• The role of sponge competition on coral reef alternative steady states (2011, unknown): “, 1980), as well as nutrient and energy cycling (de Goeij et al., 2008; Díaz and Ward, 1997; Lesser, 2006).”
• The functional roles of marine sponges (2008, background): “Lesser (2006) and Trussell et al. (2006) have shown that the growth rate and size of some important Caribbean sponges is positively correlated with depth, suggesting that food supply and therefore bottom-up processes influence the distribution and abundance of these sponges.”