Sponge density increases with depth throughout the Caribbean: Comment
Sponge density increases with depth throughout the Caribbean: Comment
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整个加勒比海的海绵密度随着深度的增加而增加：评论
DOI：
10.1002/ecs2.2689
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发表时间：
2019
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影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Alexander R. Scott
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作者：
J. Pawlik;Alexander R. Scott
我们反对该杂志最近发表的一篇文章，该文章声称在中光区（30-150米）和整个加勒比地区（Lesser和Slattery 2018），海绵丰度随着深度的增加而增加，而在某些地方报告了相反的关系。我们回顾了加勒比海中光深度海绵丰度和多样性模式的科学文献（Scott和Pawlik，2018年），文献中类似措辞和经常重复的陈述表明，整个加勒比海的海绵丰度和多样性从30米到150米深度一直在增加（“海绵增加假说”）。在仔细审查了17项研究后，我们发现报告了一个或多个海绵丰度或多样性指标作为整个或部分中光区深度的函数，我们得出结论，证据不支持这一假设：在报告加勒比地区海绵丰度指标的研究中，有四个地点报告了随深度增加的趋势，五个地点报告了减少的趋势，在12个地点有不同的模式（变量、峰值、下降、平台或无模式）（Scott和Pawlik 2018：表1）。Lesser和Slattery（2018）认为Scott和Pawlik（2018）缺乏“任何定量分析”，尽管在综述文本中具体提到了引用作者进行的统计分析。Lesser和Slattery（2018）选择重新分析Scott和Pawlik（2018）审查的17项研究中的3项数据，并分析了加勒比和太平洋地区以前未发表的数据。最后，他们再次断言，“整个加勒比海的海绵密度随着深度的增加而增加”，引用他们贡献的标题（Lesser和Slattery 2018）。正如我们所解释的那样（Scott和Pawlik 2018），关于中光珊瑚礁上底栖海洋生物丰度和多样性的基本数据在方法或深度范围上都是不常见和非标准化的，我们的结论是证据不支持海绵增加假设是基于对加勒比中光珊瑚礁海绵现有研究的最广泛评估。这一结论更容易得出，因为海绵增加假说非常具体地断言，整个中光区（30-150米）和整个加勒比海地理区域的丰度和多样性指标增加，只有两项研究（均来自巴哈马）包括来自整个深度范围的数据（Scott和Pawlik 2018：表1）。然而，Lesser和Slattery（2018）不仅重申了他们对海绵增加假说的支持，他们现在认为这可能是一种全球现象。我们质疑Lesser和Slattery（2018）对Scott和Pawlik（2018）表1中列出的17项研究中仅3项研究的数据的选择性分析。虽然这些研究中的一些仅限于介光区的一部分，使用不同的度量，复制性差等，在考虑海绵增加假设时，不应忽视其数据中的趋势或缺乏趋势。此外，Scott和Pawlik（2018年）表1中列出的一项研究包括与Lesser和Slattery（2018年）中分析的大多数研究相同的深度范围和指标，但未纳入其分析中：Rivero-Calle（2010年）报告了重复的照片-横断面数据，记录了波多黎各海岸30至100 m深度的海绵覆盖。我们将Rivero-Calle（2010）图10中报告的样带数据按位置进行分组，样带引用：Pawlik，J.R.，和A. R. Scott. 2019.整个加勒比海海绵密度随深度增加：评论。Ecosphere 10（4）：e02689. 10.1002/ecs2.2689接收于2018年12月20日;修订于2019年2月21日;接受于2019年2月26日。通讯编辑：黛布拉P.C.彼得斯版权所有：© 2019作者。这是一个开放获取的条款下的知识共享署名许可证，允许使用，分发和复制在任何媒体上，只要原始作品是适当的引用。北卡罗来纳州威尔明顿大学海洋科学中心生物学和海洋生物学系，威尔明顿，北卡罗来纳州28409美国。电子邮件地址：pawlikj@uncw.edu
We object to a recent publication in this journal claiming a consistent pattern of increasing sponge abundance with depth through the mesophotic zone (30–150 m) and throughout the Caribbean (Lesser and Slattery 2018) when the opposite relationship has been reported for some locations. We reviewed the scientific literature for patterns of abundance and diversity of sponges across mesophotic depths in the Caribbean (Scott and Pawlik 2018), prompted by similarly phrased and often-repeated statements in the literature asserting that the abundance and diversity of sponges consistently increase from 30 to 150 m depth throughout the Caribbean (the “sponge increase hypothesis”). After carefully reviewing the 17 studies we could find that reported one or more metric of sponge abundance or diversity as a function of depth across all or part of the mesophotic zone, we concluded that the evidence did not support this hypothesis: Among studies that reported metrics of sponge abundance at Caribbean sites, an increasing trend with depth was reported for four sites, a decrease at five sites, and a different pattern (variable, peak, dip, plateau, or no pattern) at 12 sites (Scott and Pawlik 2018: Table 1). Lesser and Slattery (2018) dismissed Scott and Pawlik (2018) as lacking “any quantitative analysis,” despite specific reference to statistical analyses performed by the cited authors, when available, in the text of the review. Lesser and Slattery (2018) chose to re-analyze the data from 3 of the 17 studies reviewed in Scott and Pawlik (2018), and also analyzed previously unpublished data from the Caribbean and Pacific. In conclusion, they re-asserted that “sponge density increases with depth throughout the Caribbean,” to quote the title of their contribution (Lesser and Slattery 2018). As we explained (Scott and Pawlik 2018), basic data on the abundance and diversity of benthic marine organisms on mesophotic reefs are both uncommon and non-standardized in methodology or depth range, and our conclusion that the evidence did not support the sponge increase hypothesis was based on the broadest assessment of available studies of sponges on Caribbean mesophotic reefs. This conclusion was made easier because the sponge increase hypothesis is very specific in asserting that metrics of abundance and diversity increase across the full mesophotic zone (30–150 m) and across the whole Caribbean biogeographic region, when only two studies (both from the Bahamas) included data from the full depth range (Scott and Pawlik 2018: Table 1). Nevertheless, Lesser and Slattery (2018) not only repeat their support for the sponge increase hypothesis, they now suggest that it may be a global phenomenon. We question the selective analysis of data in Lesser and Slattery (2018) from only 3 of the 17 studies listed in Table 1 of Scott and Pawlik (2018). While some of these studies are limited to only a portion of the mesophotic zone, use different metrics, are poorly replicated, etc., the trends in their data, or lack of trends, should not be dismissed when considering the sponge increase hypothesis. Further, one study listed in Table 1 of Scott and Pawlik (2018) included the same depth range and metrics as most of the studies analyzed in Lesser and Slattery (2018), but was not included in their analyses: Rivero-Calle (2010) reported replicate photo-transect data documenting sponge cover off the coast of Puerto Rico at 30 to 100 m depth. We grouped the transect data reported in Figure 10 of Rivero-Calle (2010) by location, with transects Citation: Pawlik, J. R., and A. R. Scott. 2019. Sponge density increases with depth throughout the Caribbean: Comment. Ecosphere 10(4):e02689. 10.1002/ecs2.2689 Received 20 December 2018; revised 21 February 2019; accepted 26 February 2019. Corresponding Editor: Debra P. C. Peters. Copyright: © 2019 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Department of Biology and Marine Biology, Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina 28409 USA. E-mail: pawlikj@uncw.edu
整个加勒比海的海绵密度随着深度的增加而增加
影响因子：
2.7
作者：
Lesser, Michael P.;Slattery, Marc
通讯作者：
Slattery, Marc