Although abiotic factors may be important first-order filters dictating which sponge species
can thrive at a particular site, ecological interactions can play substantial roles influencing …

Several seaweed species are commercialized worldwide both due to high demand for food
and feed and as a raw material for the extraction of phycocolloids such as agar …

It is important to understand how marine calcifying organisms may acclimatize to ocean
acidification to assess their survival over the coming century. We cultured the cold water …

Sponges are ecologically important benthic organisms with many important functional roles.
However, despite increasing global interest in the functions that sponges perform, there has …

Red coralline algae are a cosmopolitan group with the ability to precipitate CaCO3 within
the walls of their vegetative cells. The resultant carbonate structure is key for explaining their …

Box-Behnken design, which is well suited for fitting a quadratic surface and usually works
well for the process optimization, was employed to optimize the removal of Acid Blue 25 …

Cryptic species are widespread across the phylum Porifera making the identification of non-
indigenous species difficult, an issue not easily resolved by the use of morphological …

Clathrina aurea was considered endemic to Brazil before being recorded from the Pacific
(Peru) and the Caribbean Sea. We assessed the morphological variability, phylogeographic …

This study documents the first validation of the suitability of the most common parameters
and protocols used in marine ecophysiology to characterise photosynthesis by means of …

Rhodoliths are free‐living, coralline algae that create heterogeneous structure over
sedimentary habitats. These fragile ecosystems are threatened by anthropogenic …