Dataset: Spongivorous species abundance at survey sites on Caribbean coral reefs, 2008-2012 (Sponge Chem Ecology project)

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.683419.1Version 1 (2017-02-28)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

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

Scientist: Tse-Lynn Loh (University of North Carolina - Wilmington)

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


Project: Chemical ecology of sponges on Caribbean coral reefs (Sponge Chem Ecology)


Abstract

This dataset contains species abundance information for spongivore surveys that were conducted on coral reefs at 69 sites from 12 countries across the Tropical Northwestern Atlantic (Caribbean) marine province from 2008 to 2012.

This dataset contains species abundance information for spongivore surveys that were conducted on coral reefs at 69 sites from 12 countries across the Tropical Northwestern Atlantic (Caribbean) marine province from 2008 to 2012.

Related References (see full citations in Related Publications): 
Loh, T.-L. and Pawlik, J.R. (2014). [Author's pdf: http://people.uncw.edu/pawlikj/2014PNASLoh.pdf] This dataset appears as Suppl. Info. Dataset S3 (XLSX)

Loh, T.-L., et al. (2015). 


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Dataset: Survey site descriptions
Pawlik, J., Loh, T. (2021) Sponge community survey site descriptions on Caribbean coral reefs, 2008-2012 (Sponge Chem Ecology project). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2017-03-01 doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.683255.1

Related Publications

Results

Loh, T.-L., & Pawlik, J. R. (2014). Chemical defenses and resource trade-offs structure sponge communities on Caribbean coral reefs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(11), 4151–4156. doi:10.1073/pnas.1321626111
Results

Loh, T.-L., McMurray, S. E., Henkel, T. P., Vicente, J., & Pawlik, J. R. (2015). Indirect effects of overfishing on Caribbean reefs: sponges overgrow reef-building corals. PeerJ, 3, e901. doi:10.7717/peerj.901