Competition for space between encrusting excavating Caribbean sponges and other coral reef organisms
- M. López-Victoria, S. Zea, E. Weil
- Environmental Science
- 24 April 2006
Corallivory at the sponge-coral boundary did not imply greater rates of sponge advance, but probably did contribute to coral bioerosion, while sponges lost space to some encrusting invertebrates.
Diversity of sponge fauna in mangrove ponds, Pelican Cays, Belize
- K. Rützler, M. Díaz, J. Wulff
- Environmental Science
- 2000
Sponge species and abundance were determined for ponds at Cat Cay, Manatee Cay, and Fisherman's Cay and compared with the sponge fauna of more typical and common mangrove habitats elsewhere in the Belize lagoon.
Current trends of space occupation by encrusting excavating sponges on Colombian coral reefs
- M. López-Victoria, S. Zea
- Environmental Science
- 1 March 2005
To interpret current trends of reef space occupation, the patterns of distribution and size of three Caribbean species were examined at San Andres Island and Islas del Rosario in Colombia, indicating that establishment may be easier on clean, recently dead coral than on older, heavily incrusted substratum.
Phylogenetic relationships among zooxanthellae (Symbiodinium) associated to excavating sponges (Cliona spp.) reveal an unexpected lineage in the Caribbean.
- C. Granados, C. Camargo, S. Zea, J. A. Sánchez
- Environmental ScienceMolecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- 1 November 2008
Patterns of sponge (Porifera, demospongiae) distribution in remote,oceanic reef complexes of the Southwestern Caribbean
- S. Zea
- Environmental Science
- 2001
Taxonomy of the Caribbean excavating sponge species complex Cliona caribbaea - C. aprica - C. langae (Porifera, Hadromerida, Clionaidae)
- S. Zea
- Biology
- 2003
In the Caribbean Sea, brown to brown-black sponges that both excavate and encrust calcar- eous substratum are variably and confusedly reported as Cliona caribbaea, C. aprica and/or C. langae (Family…
ITS-2 and 18S rRNA gene phylogeny of Aplysinidae (Verongida, Demospongiae)
- Susan Schmitt, U. Hentschel, S. Zea, T. Dandekar, M. Wolf
- BiologyJournal of Molecular Evolution
- 2005
Stony coral diseases observed in southwestern Caribbean reefs
- J. Garzón-Ferreira, D. Gil-Agudelo, L. M. Barrios, S. Zea
- Environmental ScienceHydrobiologia
- 1 September 2001
Thirteen reef areas of Colombian territories in the Southwestern Caribbean were surveyed during the last 10 years. Coral diseases have been recorded in all these areas since 1990 and some of them…
ABUNDANCE OF THE EXCAVATING SPONGE CLIONA DELITRIX IN RELATION TO SEWAGE DISCHARGE AT SAN ANDRÉS ISLAND, SW CARIBBEAN, COLOMBIA
- A. Chaves‐Fonnegra, S. Zea, Martha Gómez
- Environmental Science
- 2016
It is known that the encrusting and excavating Caribbean sponge Cliona delitrix may increase its abundance near sources of sewage. To ascertain whether its current conspicuousness in leeward reefs of…
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