Dataset: nutrients and ARBS sponge disease
Deployment: lab_Olson_ARBS

chlorophyll-a, cyanobacteria, fluorescence and total protein in healthy and diseased sponges
View Data: For data, See Dataset Metadata Page: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/3609
Principal Investigator: 
Julie Olson (University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, UA/Tuscaloosa)
Co-Principal Investigator: 
Deborah J. Gochfeld (University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), UM-MMRI)
Robert W. Thacker (University of Alabama at Birmingham, UA/Birmingham)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Current State: 
Final no updates expected
Version Date: 
2012-01-25
Description

To assess the interacting effects of nutrients and disease on Aplysina cauliformis, we provided nutrient enrichment to healthy and diseased sponges in a factorial experiment at LSI in the summer of 2009. Impacts on ARBS virulence (rate of lesion growth) and host response (growth and physiology of both the sponge and its cyanobacterial symbionts, Synechococcus spongiarum) were assessed.

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