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Kang Li, Huamei Huang, Di Dong, Shengpeng Zhang and Ran Yan
Although mangrove forests occupy only 0.5% of the global coastal area, they account for 10?15% of coastal organic carbon (OC) storage, and 49?98% of OC is stored in sediments. The biogeochemistry of iron minerals and OC in marine sediments is closely rel...
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Ying Zhou, Huixian Liang, Zhaocong Wang, Xiaojian Liao, Shihai Xu and Bingxin Zhao
Clionaterpene (1), a new cadinene sesquiterpene, along with six known compounds 2?7 were isolated from the marine sponge Cliona sp. The structure of 1 with absolute configuration was determined by the spectroscopic data (UV, IR, MS, and NMR) and quantum ...
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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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Josephine Goldstein and Peter Funch
Demosponges of the genus Halichondria Fleming (1828) are common in coastal marine ecosystems worldwide and have been well-studied over the last decades. As ecologically important filter feeders, Halichondria species represent potentially suitable model o...
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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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Carmen Rizzo, Vincenzo Zammuto, Angelina Lo Giudice, Maria Giovanna Rizzo, Antonio Spanò, Pasqualina Laganà, Miguel Martinez, Salvatore Guglielmino and Concetta Gugliandolo
Bioprospecting in unusual marine environments provides an innovative approach to search novel biomolecules with antibiofilm activity. Antarctic sponge-associated bacteria belonging to Colwellia, Pseudoalteromonas, Shewanella and Winogradskyella genera we...
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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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Patrizia Pagliara, Amilcare Barca, Tiziano Verri and Carmela Caroppo
Marine cyanobacteria are a source of bioactive natural compounds, with a wide range of biotechnological applications. However, information on sponge-associated cyanobacteria are relatively scarce to date. In this paper, we carried out the morphological a...
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Barbara Calcinai, Carlo Cerrano, Laura Núñez-Pons, Maurizio Pansini, Do Cong Thung and Marco Bertolino
Cahong in Ha Long Bay (Vietnam) is a small lake with a reduced, invisible connection with the open sea. The water column conditions locally experience notable fluctuations across the year, mostly driven by biannual monsoon seasons. Salinity, temperature,...
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