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

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Pawlik, Joseph R ^a   Loh, Tse Lynn ^a   McMurray, Steven E ^a   Finelli, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CAGE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; FILTER FEEDER; FISH; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GROWTH RATE; HYPOTHESIS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PICOPLANKTON; PREDATION; PREDATOR; SPONGE (PORIFERA); UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CORAL REEFS; FLORIDA; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PORIFERA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84877245782     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062573     Document Type: Article

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