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Hans Ulrik Riisgård
Sponges have always been filter feeders, in contrast to all the other filter-feeding invertebrate groups for which this feeding mode is a secondary adaptation. This study calls attention to this aspect, which explains why sponges are tolerant to hypoxia,...
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Joseba Aguilo-Arce, Pere Ferriol, Roberta Trani, Patrizia Puthod, Cataldo Pierri and Caterina Longo
The use of marine sponges dates back thousands of years, and interest in these animals is increasing as new applications are discovered. Their potential is extensive, both in their ancient and still popular use as bath sponges for cosmetics and regarding...
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Tharindu R. L. Senadheera, Abul Hossain and Fereidoon Shahidi
The structurally diverse bioactive compounds found in marine organisms represent valuable resources for the food and pharmaceutical industries. The marine ecosystem encompasses over half of the world?s biota, providing an extensive range of bioactive com...
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Guoqi Han, Jon Chamberlain, Colin Webber and Charles Hannah
The world?s largest living glass sponge reefs, located in the Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound off British Columbia, are impacted by bottom contact fishing gear. The existing Adaptive Management Zones (AMZs) for the protection of these reefs were ...
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Guadalupe Gimenez, Giuseppe Corriero, Sajmir Beqiraj, Lorela Lazaj, Tamara Lazic, Caterina Longo, Maria Mercurio, Carlotta Nonnis Marzano, Massimo Zuccaro, Violeta Zuna and Cataldo Pierri
Coralligenous bioconstructions are one of the Mediterranean?s most distinctive and biodiverse marine habitats. This research aimed to provide a preliminary characterization of macrobenthic coralligenous assemblages at four sites located in the Marine Nat...
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Logajothiswaran Ambalavanan, Shumpei Iehata, Rosanne Fletcher, Emylia H. Stevens and Sandra C. Zainathan
Coral reefs are among the most biodiverse biological systems on earth. Corals are classified as marine invertebrates and filter the surrounding food and other particles in seawater, including pathogens such as viruses. Viruses act as both pathogen and sy...
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Poul S. Larsen and Hans Ulrik Riisgård
Filter-feeding sponges pump large amounts of water and contribute significantly to grazing impact, matter transport and nutrient cycling in many marine benthic communities. For ecological studies it is therefore of interest to be able to estimate the pum...
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Heather N. Page, Clay Hewett, Hayden Tompkins and Emily R. Hall
Coral reef community composition, function, and resilience have been altered by natural and anthropogenic stressors. Future anthropogenic ocean and coastal acidification (together termed ?acidification?) may exacerbate this reef degradation. Accurately p...
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Kelly Kingon
Many countries have classification standards for their environmental resources including criteria for classifying coastal and marine ecosystems. Until 2012, the United States just had a nationwide protocol for classifying terrestrial and aquatic habitats...
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Carlos Jimenez, Louis Hadjioannou, Antonis Petrou, Vasilis Andreou and Andreas Georgiou
Artificial reefs are considered one of the alternative methods in fisheries management, used in order to enhance stocks and marine biodiversity in general. A number of biotic and abiotic parameters influence the fouling communities? formation on artifici...
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