Covering: up to June 2003Most benthic organisms produce planktonic larvae in their life
cycles; larval settlement and metamorphosis are influenced by many environmental factors …

Les éponges réagissent à la plupart des autres organismes des systèmes marins, en tant
que compétiteurs, symbiotes, hôtes de symbiotes, consommateurs et proies. L'étude et la …

Although abiotic factors may be important first-order filters dictating which sponge species
can thrive at a particular site, ecological interactions can play substantial roles influencing …

Coral recruitment is a key process in the maintenance and recovery of coral reef
ecosystems. While intense competition between coral and algae is often assumed on reefs …

Competition among sessile organisms is a major process on coral reefs, and is becoming
more important as anthropogenic disturbances cause shifts in dominance to non-reef …

The interdisciplinary field of marine chemical ecology is an expanding and dynamic science.
It is no surprise that the breadth of marine organisms studied expanded in concert with …

Different categories of molecular markers have been used so far to study the population
structure of sponges. However, these markers often did not have the resolution power to …

Sponges are a major component of benthic ecosystems across the world and fulfil a number
of important functional roles. However, despite their importance, there have been few …

Crambe crambe is a common encrusting sponge found in the Mediterranean and Atlantic
littoral. An analysis of a partial sequence (535 bp) of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) gene …

There is strong evidence for the importance of naturally produced compounds as mediators
of ecological interactions between marine benthic consumers and their prey, eg, in plant …