No evidence for food limitation of Caribbean reef sponges: Reply to Slattery & Lesser (2015)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 527, Issue , 2015, Pages 281-284

  Pawlik, Joseph R ^a   McMurray, Steven E ^a   Erwin, Patrick ^a   Zea, Sven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Dissolved organic carbon; DOC; Particulate organic carbon; POC; Sponge loop; Top down; Trophic levels

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL REEF; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD LIMITATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SPONGE; WATER DEPTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84930737249     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps11308     Document Type: Review

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