A Vicious Circle? Altered Carbon and Nutrient Cycling May Explain the Low Resilience of Caribbean Coral Reefs

Selective feeding by the giant barrel sponge enhances foraging efficiency

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Coral mucus fuels the sponge loop in warm- and cold-water coral reef ecosystems

(2016) Laura Rix et al.   Scientific Reports

Long-term variation of octocoral populations in St. John, US Virgin Islands

(2015) Elizabeth A. Lenz et al.   CORAL REEFS

Microbial and sponge loops modify fish production in phase-shifting coral reefs

(2015) Cynthia B. Silveira et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Population dynamics of giant barrel sponges on Florida coral reefs

(2015) Steven E. McMurray et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

A review of evidence for food limitation of sponges on Caribbean reefs

(2015) JR Pawlik et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Herbivory and the resilience of Caribbean coral reefs: knowledge gaps and implications for management

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Recent Sargassum Inundation Events in the Caribbean: Shipboard Observations Reveal Dominance of a Previously Rare Form

(2015) Jeffrey Schell et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

A review of evidence for food limitation of sponges on Caribbean reefs

(2015) JR Pawlik et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Herbivory and the resilience of Caribbean coral reefs: knowledge gaps and implications for management

(2015) TC Adam et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Dynamics in benthic community composition and influencing factors in an upwelling-exposed coral reef on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica

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Indirect effects of overfishing on Caribbean reefs: sponges overgrow reef-building corals

(2015) Tse-Lynn Loh et al.   PeerJ

Reduced Diversity and High Sponge Abundance on a Sedimented Indo-Pacific Reef System: Implications for Future Changes in Environmental Quality

(2014) Abigail Powell et al.   PLoS One

Chemical defenses and resource trade-offs structure sponge communities on Caribbean coral reefs

(2014) T.-L. Loh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Temporal changes in benthic assemblages on Florida Keys reefs 11 years after the 1997/1998 El Niño

(2013) RR Ruzicka et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Surviving in a Marine Desert: The Sponge Loop Retains Resources Within Coral Reefs

(2013) Jasper M. de Goeij et al.   SCIENCE

Nutrient supply from fishes facilitates macroalgae and suppresses corals in a Caribbean coral reef ecosystem

(2013) Deron E. Burkepile et al.   Scientific Reports

Molecular characterization of dissolved organic matter (DOM): a critical review

(2012) Antonio Nebbioso et al.   ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Macroalgae Decrease Growth and Alter Microbial Community Structure of the Reef-Building Coral, Porites astreoides

(2012) Rebecca Vega Thurber et al.   PLoS One

Global disparity in the resilience of coral reefs

(2012) George Roff et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Unseen players shape benthic competition on coral reefs

(2012) Katie L. Barott et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Spatial distribution of riverine DOC inputs to the ocean: an updated global synthesis

(2012) Minhan Dai et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Spatial and temporal coherence between Amazon River discharge, salinity, and light absorption by colored organic carbon in western tropical Atlantic surface waters

(2011) J. Salisbury et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Dissolved Organic Matter in the Ocean: A Controversy Stimulates New Insights

(2011) Dennis Hansell et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

In situ fluxes of dissolved inorganic nitrogen from the sponge community on Conch Reef, Key Largo, Florida

(2010) Melissa W. Southwell et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Rising to the challenge of sustaining coral reef resilience

(2010) Terry P. Hughes et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Changes in northern Tanzania coral reefs during a period of increased fisheries management and climatic disturbance

(2009) Tim R. McClanahan et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Marine biological community baselines in unimpacted tropical ecosystems: spatial and temporal analysis of reefs at Howland and Baker Islands

(2009) Peter S. Vroom et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Metagenomic analysis of stressed coral holobionts

(2009) Rebecca Vega Thurber et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Redwood of the reef: growth and age of the giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta in the Florida Keys

(2008) S. E. McMurray et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Phototrophic nutrition and symbiont diversity of two Caribbean sponge–cyanobacteria symbioses

(2008) PM Erwin et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

A clear human footprint in the coral reefs of the Caribbean

(2008) C. Mora   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES