Sponges and ascidians control removal of particulate organic nitrogen from coral reef water

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1480-1489

  Ribes, Marta ^a,c   Coma, Rafel ^b   Atkinson, Marlin J ^a   Kinzie III, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CORAL REEF; INGESTION RATE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC NITROGEN; SPONGE; ZOOBENTHOS;

ANTHOZOA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.;

EID: 25144458368     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2005.50.5.1480     Document Type: Article

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