Carbon Flux Through the Giant Barrel Sponge Xestospongia testudinaria in the Red Sea
Sponges have important ecological functions on coral reefs because they are regionally abundant, competitively dominant, and process large volumes of seawater. The sponge loop hypothesis proposes that sponges consume dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and then releases the carbon as shed cellular detrit...
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2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10754/627888 |