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Sponge biodiversity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2007

R.W.M. van Soest
R.W.M. van Soest
Affiliation:
Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam, PO Box 94766, 1090 GT Amsterdam, The Netherlands. E-mail: soest@science.uva.nl
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Sponges are an integral part of marine benthic communities with a high-impact role in benthic–pelagic coupling processes, as an important source of food for demersal grazers and predators, as hosts of a highly diverse microbial biomass, and as bio-eroders. Sponges provide age-old (hygienic) services to humans and continue to be of interest in modern times as sources of an unprecedented array of useful substances.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 87 , Issue 6 , December 2007 , pp. 1345 - 1348
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2007 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom