Sediment impacts on marine sponges

JJ Bell, E McGrath, A Biggerstaff, T Bates… - Marine pollution …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in sediment input to marine systems can influence benthic environments
in many ways. Sponges are important components of benthic ecosystems world-wide and as …

Delineation of the Indo-Malayan centre of maximum marine biodiversity: the Coral Triangle

BW Hoeksema - Biogeography, time, and place: distributions, barriers …, 2007 - Springer
The ranges of many tropical marine species overlap in a centre of maximum marine
biodiversity, which is located in the Indo-Malayan region. Because this centre includes …

The sponge microbiome within the greater coral reef microbial metacommunity

DFR Cleary, T Swierts, FJRC Coelho… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Much recent marine microbial research has focused on sponges, but very little is known
about how the sponge microbiome fits in the greater coral reef microbial metacommunity …

Cross-shelf investigation of coral reef cryptic benthic organisms reveals diversity patterns of the hidden majority

JK Pearman, M Leray, R Villalobos, RJ Machida… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Coral reefs harbor diverse assemblages of organisms yet the majority of this diversity is
hidden within the three dimensional structure of the reef and neglected using standard …

Bacterial community composition and predicted functional ecology of sponges, sediment and seawater from the thousand islands reef complex, West Java, Indonesia

NJ de Voogd, DFR Cleary, ARM Polonia… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
In the present study, we assessed the composition of Bacteria in four biotopes namely
sediment, seawater and two sponge species (Stylissa massa and Xestospongia …

Assessment of variation in bacterial composition among microhabitats in a mangrove environment using DGGE fingerprints and barcoded pyrosequencing

DFR Cleary, K Smalla, LCS Mendonça-Hagler… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Here, we use DGGE fingerprinting and barcoded pyrosequencing data, at six cut-off levels
(85–100%), of all bacteria, Alphaproteobacteria and Betaproteobacteria to assess …

Spatial and environmental variables structure sponge symbiont communities

DFR Cleary, ARM Polónia, T Swierts… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the maintenance and origin of beta diversity is a central topic in ecology.
However, the factors that drive diversity patterns and underlying processes remain unclear …

Variation in the composition of corals, fishes, sponges, echinoderms, ascidians, molluscs, foraminifera and macroalgae across a pronounced in-to-offshore …

DFR Cleary, ARM Polónia, W Renema… - Marine pollution …, 2016 - Elsevier
Substrate cover, water quality parameters and assemblages of corals, fishes, sponges,
echinoderms, ascidians, molluscs, benthic foraminifera and macroalgae were sampled …

[PDF][PDF] Distribution patterns of mushroom corals (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) across the Spermonde Shelf, South Sulawesi.

BW Hoeksema - Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2012 - researchgate.net
The distribution patterns of 37 mushroom coral species (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) were
studied on 13 reefs in the Spermonde Archipelago (Makassar Strait, Indonesia) in 1984 …

Composition and predictive functional analysis of bacterial communities in seawater, sediment and sponges in the Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia

DFR Cleary, NJ de Voogd, ARM Polónia, R Freitas… - Microbial ecology, 2015 - Springer
In this study, we used a 16S rRNA gene barcoded pyrosequencing approach to sample
bacterial communities from six biotopes, namely, seawater, sediment and four sponge …