Nudibranch predation boosts sponge silicon cycling
Nudibranch predation boosts sponge silicon cycling
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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Diatoms play a key role in the marine silica cycle, but recent studies have shown that sponges can also have an important effect on this dynamic. They accumulate large stocks of biogenic silica within their bodies over long periods, which are thought to vary little on an intra-annual scale. The observation of an abrupt decline in sponge biomass in...
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Nudibranch predation boosts sponge silicon cycling
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2045-2322
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2045-2322
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10.1038/s41598-023-27411-y
