Chemical warfare on coral reefs: Sponge metabolites differentially affect coral symbiosis in situ

By J. Pawlik, L. Steindler, Timothy P. Henkel, S. Beer, M. Ilan. 2007

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Subfields: Biotechnology, Ecology, Ocean Engineering

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In Biotechnology

1. R. Maliao
2. J. Bell
3. Valerie J. Paul
4. Robert Steneck
5. R. Turingan
6. S. Arnold
7. J. Pawlik
8. Kathleen M. Morrow

In Ecology

1. Peter J. Mumby
2. S. Arnold
3. Robert Steneck
4. Valerie J. Paul
5. Kathleen M. Morrow
6. N. Chadwick
7. A. Norström
8. Jerker Lokrantz

In Ocean Engineering

1. J. Bell
2. Valerie J. Paul
3. J. Pawlik
4. Kathleen M. Morrow
5. Carl Folke
6. N. Chadwick

Citations in the corpus

• The functional roles of marine sponges (2008, background): “The use of secondary metabolites by sponges in spatial competition has been long realised, but ecologically relevant tests of allelopathy have been difficult in the past (Pawlik et al., 2007).”
• New perspectives on ecological mechanisms affecting coral recruitment on reefs (2008, background): “Some studies used chemical extracts of sponges (Sullivan et al., 1983; Pawlik et al., 2007) to show that allelopathy can negatively impact adult corals.”
• Phase-shift in coral reef communities in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS), USA (2008, background): “Sponge proliferation could aVect corals through several mechanisms: allelopathy (Engel and Pawlik 2005; Pawlik et al. 2007 ), physical smothering and cellular digestion (Hill 1998) as well as direct space competition (Lopez-Victoria et al. 2006).”
• Alternative states on coral reefs: beyond coral–macroalgal phase shifts (2009, background): “Similarly, sponges not only have the ability to colonize free substrate quickly, but are capable of overgrowing living coral through physical (Lopez-Victoria et al. 2006) and chemical mechanisms (Pawlik et al. 2007).”
• The Chemical Ecology of Sponges on Caribbean Reefs: Natural Products Shape Natural Systems (2011, background): “…November 2011 / Vol. 61 No. 11 BioScience 893 natural concentrations were poured into petri dishes and then inverted onto the surfaces of large, mound-forming brain corals of the genus Diploria (figure 4c), thereby mimicking the overgrowth of sponge onto coral (Pawlik et al. 2007).”
• Competition Among Sessile Organisms on Coral Reefs (2011, methodology): “Crude extracts from the sponge Agelas clathrodes were incorporated into gels at natural volumetric concentrations and applied to Caribbean stony corals overnight (Pawlik et al. 2007).”
• 40 Years of benthic community change on the Caribbean reefs of Curaçao and Bonaire: the rise of slimy cyanobacterial mats (2017, background): “In many cases they actively overgrow and kill other benthic organisms (Pawlik et al. 2007).”