Competition for space between encrusting excavating Caribbean sponges and other coral reef organisms

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 312, Issue , 2006, Pages 113-121

  López Victoria, Mateo ^a   Zea, Sven ^a   Weil, Ernesto ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Cliona; Competition; Coral reefs; Corallivory; Excavating sponges; Reflex angle; Turf algae

Indexed keywords

ALGA; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CORAL REEF; SPONGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; CLIONA; CLIONA APRICA; CLIONAIDAE; DIPLORIA STRIGOSA; HADROMERIDA; INVERTEBRATA; PORIFERA; SIDERASTREA SIDEREA; XIPHOPHORUS MACULATUS;

EID: 33744481533     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps312113     Document Type: Article

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