Dataset: Carbon flux for the Caribbean giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta (Sponge-loop)

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedDOI: 10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.685952Version (2017-03-27)Dataset Type:experimental

Principal Investigator: Christopher Finelli (University of North Carolina - Wilmington)

Co-Principal Investigator, Contact: Steven McMurray (University of North Carolina - Wilmington)

Co-Principal Investigator: Joseph Pawlik (University of North Carolina - Wilmington)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Testing the sponge-loop hypothesis for Caribbean coral reefs (Sponge_Loop)

This dataset includes flux measurements of dissolved, particulate and total organic carbon associated with the Caribbean giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta on Conch Reef, Key Largo, FL in June 2013.


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Results

McMurray, S.E. 2015. The Dynamics of Sponge Populations and Benthic-pelagic Carbon Flux on Coral Reefs. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Methods

Maldonado, M., Ribes, M., & van Duyl, F. C. (2012). Nutrient Fluxes Through Sponges. Advances in Sponge Science: Physiology, Chemical and Microbial Diversity, Biotechnology, 113–182. doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-394283-8.00003-5
Methods

McMurray, S. E., Blum, J. E., & Pawlik, J. R. (2008). Redwood of the reef: growth and age of the giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta in the Florida Keys. Marine Biology, 155(2), 159–171. doi:10.1007/s00227-008-1014-z
Methods

McMurray, S. E., Johnson, Z. I., Hunt, D. E., Pawlik, J. R., & Finelli, C. M. (2016). Selective feeding by the giant barrel sponge enhances foraging efficiency. Limnology and Oceanography, 61(4), 1271–1286. doi:10.1002/lno.10287
Methods

McMurray, S., Pawlik, J., & Finelli, C. (2014). Trait-mediated ecosystem impacts: how morphology and size affect pumping rates of the Caribbean giant barrel sponge. Aquatic Biology, 23(1), 1–13. doi:10.3354/ab00612