Sponge biodiversity

Sponges are an integral part of marine benthic communities with a high-impact role in benthic–pelagic coupling processes, as an important source of food for demersal grazers and predators, as hosts of a highly diverse microbial biomass, and as bio-eroders. Sponges provide age-old (hygienic) services...

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Published in:Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2007-12, Vol.87 (6), p.1345-1348
Main Author: van Soest, R.W.M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Benthic communities
Biodiversity
EDITORIAL
Marine
Morphology
Porifera
Predators
Taxonomy
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Summary:Sponges are an integral part of marine benthic communities with a high-impact role in benthic–pelagic coupling processes, as an important source of food for demersal grazers and predators, as hosts of a highly diverse microbial biomass, and as bio-eroders. Sponges provide age-old (hygienic) services to humans and continue to be of interest in modern times as sources of an unprecedented array of useful substances.
ISSN:0025-3154
1469-7769
DOI:10.1017/S0025315407059048