With the decline of reef-building corals on tropical reefs, sponges have emerged as an
important component of changing coral reef ecosystems. Seemingly simple, sponges are …

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Sponges are now the dominant habitat-forming animals on Caribbean reefs, where the
combined effects of climate change, pollution, and disease have decimated reef-building …

Ecological studies have rarely been performed at the community level across a large
biogeographic region. Sponges are now the primary habitat-forming organisms on …

Consumer-mediated indirect effects at the community level are difficult to demonstrate
empirically. Here, we show an explicit indirect effect of overfishing on competition between …

Caribbean coral reefs are in decline and the deployment of artificial reefs, structures on the
sea bottom that mimic one or more characteristics of a natural reef, is increasingly often …

Caribbean coral reefs have been transformed in the past few decades with the demise of
reef-building corals, and sponges are now the dominant habitat-forming organisms on most …

Marine sponges have been successful in their expansion across diverse ecological niches
around the globe. Pioneering work attributed this success to both a well-developed …

The growth rates and ages of many benthic marine organisms are poorly understood,
complicating our understanding of ecosystem change. This is particularly true for sponges …

Sponges and other sessile invertebrates are lacking behavioural escape or defense
mechanisms and rely therefore on morphological or chemical defenses. Studies from …