Sponge density increases with depth throughout the Caribbean: Reply
Sponge density increases with depth throughout the Caribbean: Reply
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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: 回复
DOI:
10.1002/ecs2.2690
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发表时间:
2019
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影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Slattery, Marc
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文献类型:
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作者:
Lesser, Michael P.;Slattery, Marc
Our recent paper in Ecosphere (Lesser and Slattery 2018) addressed an important question in coral reef ecology: Does sponge biomass and/or abundance increase with depth over the shallow (< 30 m)-to-mesophotic (~ 30–150 m) gradient? Scott and Pawlik (2018), based on a review of 17 studies, concluded that the “sponge increase hypothesis” is not supported. It is important to note that any hypothesis is a “strawman” that may ultimately fall under additional scientific scrutiny, and that a more complete understanding of mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) is currently hindered by the limited number of studies at these depths (Loya et al. 2016). Nonetheless, using both historical and contemporary data, we demonstrated a global phenomenon of increasing sponge density with depth on tropical shallow and mesophotic reefs (Lesser and Slattery 2018: Fig. 3; R2= 0.449, P<<< 0.001) that supports the sponge increase hypothesis.In their response to our contribution, Pawlik and Scott (2019) take issue with our statement about their lack of any quantitative analysis. Scott and Pawlik (2018) did report many of the descriptive statistics, as well as quantitative statistics where available, by the authors of the
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影响因子:
2.7
作者:
J. Pawlik;Alexander R. Scott
通讯作者:
Alexander R. Scott
DOI:
10.1016/j.jembe.2005.07.010
发表时间:
2006-01-24
影响因子:
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作者:
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通讯作者:
Lesser, MP
影响因子:
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作者:
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通讯作者:
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影响因子:
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作者:
Lesser, Michael P.;Slattery, Marc
通讯作者:
Slattery, Marc
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