Ecology of Caribbean Sponges: Are Top-Down or Bottom-Up Processes More Important?

Could some coral reefs become sponge reefs as our climate changes?

(2013) James J. Bell et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Sponge Communities on Caribbean Coral Reefs Are Structured by Factors That Are Top-Down, Not Bottom-Up

(2013) Joseph R. Pawlik et al.   PLoS One

Cold-water event of January 2010 results in catastrophic benthic mortality on patch reefs in the Florida Keys

(2012) M. A. Colella et al.   CORAL REEFS

Disease and nutrient enrichment as potential stressors on the Caribbean sponge Aplysina cauliformis and its bacterial symbionts

(2012) DJ Gochfeld et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Invasive Lionfish Drive Atlantic Coral Reef Fish Declines

(2012) Stephanie J. Green et al.   PLoS One

Estimates of Particulate Organic Carbon Flowing from the Pelagic Environment to the Benthos through Sponge Assemblages

(2012) Alejandra Perea-Blázquez et al.   PLoS One

Living dangerously on borrowed time during slow, unrecognized regime shifts

(2012) Terry P. Hughes et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Phase shift to algal dominated communities at mesophotic depths associated with lionfish (Pterois volitans) invasion on a Bahamian coral reef

(2011) Michael P. Lesser et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

The Chemical Ecology of Sponges on Caribbean Reefs: Natural Products Shape Natural Systems

(2011) Joseph R. Pawlik   BIOSCIENCE

Decadal-scale changes in abundance of non-scleractinian invertebrates on a Caribbean coral reef

(2011) Nicholas B. Colvard et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

The Sponge Pump: The Role of Current Induced Flow in the Design of the Sponge Body Plan

(2011) Sally P. Leys et al.   PLoS One

Demographics of increasing populations of the giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta in the Florida Keys

(2010) Steven E. McMurray et al.   ECOLOGY

Characterization of macrofaunal assemblages associated with sponges and tunicates collected off the southeastern United States

(2010) Cara L. Fiore et al.   INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

Evidence of a resource trade-off between growth and chemical defenses among Caribbean coral reef sponges

(2010) W Leong et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Phase shifts and stable states on coral reefs

(2010) SR Dudgeon et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

The effects of top–down versus bottom–up control on benthic coral reef community structure

(2010) Jennifer E. Smith et al.   OECOLOGIA

Phenotypic plasticity in the Caribbean sponge Callyspongia vaginalis (Porifera: Haplosclerida)

(2010) Susanna López-Legentil et al.   SCIENTIA MARINA

Recent Region-wide Declines in Caribbean Reef Fish Abundance

(2009) Michelle J. Paddack et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Assessing evidence of phase shifts from coral to macroalgal dominance on coral reefs

(2009) John F. Bruno et al.   ECOLOGY

The functional roles of marine sponges

(2008) James J. Bell   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Alternative states on coral reefs: beyond coral–macroalgal phase shifts

(2008) AV Norström et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES