Deep-sea Sponge Grounds Ecosystems of the North Atlantic: an integrated approach towards their preservation and sustainable exploitation

Deliverables

Report on the recovery rates and recovery models of various sponge grounds subject to fishing pressure

Policy briefs (minimum of 5)

Assessment of metatranscriptomic expression profiles

Assessment of metatranscriptomic expression profiles of secondary metabolic pathways in at least 3 deep-sea sponges

Report on the most explanatory model that fits patterns of genetic relatedness and connectivity of sponge-grounds’ populations

SponGES tools for EAF-net, VME database and other portals
Report on the reference collection

Report on the reference collection (including list of barcodes)

Report on the morphological composition of sponges

Report on the morphological composition of sponges inhabiting highly impacted and pristine sites based on video footage

Report on sponge session

Report on sponge session from FAO’s 2018/19 Deep-Sea Symposium

Final metagenome datasets
1st Progress report
SponGES dissemination plan

SponGES dissemination plan including stakeholders’ and events’ database

Classification scheme

Classification scheme of North Atlantic sponge grounds ecosystems

Online version of SponGIS presenting key data

Online Version of SponGIS presenting key data layers available through the Project webpage

Report on a skill assessed forecasting system

Report on a skill assessed forecasting system for the North Atlantic marine ecosystem

Report on the 2nd set of sampling cruises

Cruise report case study 2

Report on genomic resources

Report on genomic resources for main sponge ground species

Quantification of the impact of sponge grounds on the regional Si cycle
Report on environmental drivers

Report on environmental drivers and distribution modelling of sponge grounds, at regional and local scales

Report on baseline data for the economic valuation

Report on baseline data for the economic valuation of the services and goods provided by North Atlantic sponge grounds’ ecosystems

Report on sponge mortality

Report on sponge mortality through incidental and bycatch interactions after trawling events

Quantify DIN source

Quantify DIN source/sink function of sponge grounds

2nd Progress report
Communication and awareness building materials

Communication and awareness building materials prepared and disseminated to WG GES

Report on food-web interactions

Report on food-web interactions and biogeochemical cycle modelling results

Report on the genetic diversity

Report on the genetic diversity, structure and connectivity of sponge-grounds’ populations

Report on silicon isotope results

Report on silicon isotope results from sediment cores and sponge species

Report on effects of oil discharges

Report on effects of oil discharges and oxygen on sponges under different climate scenarios

Final metatranscriptome datasets
Annotate metagenome databases

Annotated metagenome databases of encoded enzymes and gene clusters relevant to secondary metabolism

A list of at least 3 bioactive compounds

A list of at least 3 bioactive compounds with industrial potential isolated from sponge-ground sponges

Technical report

Technical report on the structure of the SponGIS

Equation for species specific Si uptake kinetics
Report on sediment core parameters

Report on sediment core parameters and link with AMOC from key sponge grounds in the North Atlantic

Assessment of carbon transfer from deep-sea sponges

Assessment of carbon transfer from deep-sea sponges to the associated fauna

Report comparing selectivity and the impact of different type of bottom fishing gears

Report comparing selectivity and the impact of different type of bottom fishing gears on different type of sponge grounds

Preliminary protocols and standards

Preliminary protocols and standards related to sampling methodologies for data and specimen collection of each WP

Assessment of carbon transfer

Assessment of carbon transfer through deep-sea sponges using stable-isotope-enriched food sources

Associated fauna checklist
Report on the larval features

Report on the larval features and outputs and recruitment and mortality estimates for further combination of population dynamics and connectivity to understand present distribution of sponge grounds

D10.8

Information on cumulative expenditure incurred

Report on technical measures

Report on technical measures for sponge conservation/spatial planning

Report on the part and present distribution

Report on the past and present distribution and diversity of sponge grounds in the North Atlantic

Report on effects of T and pH on boreal sponges
Report of the 1st set of samling cruises

Cruise report case study 1

Quantification of in situ fluxes of carbon and oxygen

Quantification of in situ fluxes of carbon and oxygen from sponge grounds

Report on Ethical Requirements

Report on Ethical Requirements regarding the use of human cells and tissues and the sampling of material within MPAs.

Coordination and management plan
Identification tools for deep-sea sponges

Identification tools for deep-sea sponges (water proof guide, app)

Initial habitat suitability maps

Initial habitat suitability maps of the North Atlantic distribution to inform sampling programmes during the project

Maps of predicted near-future distribution of sponge grounds

Maps of predicted near-future distributions of sponge grounds throughout the North Atlantic at decadal intervals

SponGES data management plan

Time-calibrated phylogenomic tree

Time-calibrated phylogenomic tree of ground-forming species

Report on historic climate and ecosystem data

Report on historic climate and ecosystem data from HYCOM-ECOSMO E2E for key regional sponge ecosystems comprising temperature, salinity, ocean currents and turbulence and biogeochemical parameter such as nutrients and oxygen, productivity on different trophic levels and benthic-pelagic fluxes

Scientific documentary

SponGES’ home page

Publications

Microbial Strategies for Survival in the Glass Sponge Vazella pourtalesii .

Author(s): Sören Franzenburg; Lindsay Beazley; Ute Hentschel; Beate M. Slaby; Kristina Bayer; Jan Michels; Ellen Kenchington; Kathrin Busch
Published in: mSystems, Issue 5/4, 2020, Page(s) e00473-20, ISSN 2379-5077
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology Journals
DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00473-20

Rock sponges (lithistid Demospongiae) of the Northeast Atlantic seamounts, with description of ten new species

Author(s): Francisca C. Carvalho, Paco Cárdenas, Pilar Ríos, Javier Cristobo, Hans Tore Rapp, Joana R. Xavier
Published in: PeerJ, Issue 8, 2020, Page(s) e8703, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8703

Mapping benthic ecological diversity and interactions with bottom-contact fishing on the Flemish Cap (northwest Atlantic)

Author(s): F.J. Murillo, E. Kenchington, M. Koen-Alonso, J. Guijarro, T.J. Kenchington, M. Sacau, L. Beazley, H.T. Rapp
Published in: Ecological Indicators, Issue 112, 2020, Page(s) 106135, ISSN 1470-160X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106135

Abyssocladia vaceleti (Porifera, Cladorhizidae): a new deep-sea carnivorous sponge from Patagonia

Author(s): PILAR RÍOS, JAVIER CRISTOBO
Published in: Zootaxa, Issue 4466/1, 2018, Page(s) 164, ISSN 1175-5326
Publisher: Magnolia Press
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4466.1.13

Systematics of 'lithistid' tetractinellid demosponges from the Tropical Western Atlantic – implications for phylodiversity and bathymetric distribution

Author(s): Schuster, Astrid; Pomponi, Shirley A; Pisera, Andrzej; Cárdenas, Paco; Kelly, Michelle; Wörheide, Gert; Erpenbeck, Dirk
Published in: PeerJ Preprint, Issue 5, 2019, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.27673v1

When is an aster not an aster? A new deep-sea Discorhabdella (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) with asters, from the Mozambique Channel

Author(s): JEAN VACELET, PACO CÁRDENAS
Published in: Zootaxa, Issue 4466/1, 2018, Page(s) 197, ISSN 1175-5326
Publisher: Magnolia Press
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4466.1.15

Marine Rare Actinomycetes: A Promising Source of Structurally Diverse and Unique Novel Natural Products

Author(s): Subramani, Sipkema
Published in: Marine Drugs, Issue 17/5, 2019, Page(s) 249, ISSN 1660-3397
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/md17050249

A Blueprint for an Inclusive, Global Deep-Sea Ocean Decade Field Program

Author(s): Kerry L. Howell, Ana Hilário, A. Louise Allcock, David M. Bailey, Maria Baker, Malcolm R. Clark, Ana Colaço, Jon Copley, Erik E. Cordes, Roberto Danovaro, Awantha Dissanayake, Elva Escobar, Patricia Esquete, Austin J. Gallagher, Andrew R. Gates, Sylvie M. Gaudron, Christopher R. German, Kristina M. Gjerde, Nicholas D. Higgs, Nadine Le Bris, Lisa A. Levin, Elisabetta Manea, Craig McClain, Lenaick
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 7, 2020, Page(s) 584861, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.584861

Community Composition and Habitat Characterization of a Rock Sponge Aggregation (Porifera, Corallistidae) in the Cantabrian Sea

Author(s): Pilar Ríos, Elena Prado, Francisca C. Carvalho, Francisco Sánchez, Augusto Rodríguez-Basalo, Joana R. Xavier, Teodoro P. Ibarrola, Javier Cristobo
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 7, 2020, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00578

Cooperation between passive and active silicon transporters clarifies the ecophysiology and evolution of biosilicification in sponges

Author(s): M. Maldonado, M. López-Acosta, L. Beazley, E. Kenchington, V. Koutsouveli, A. Riesgo
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 6/28, 2020, Page(s) eaba9322, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: Science Advances
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba9322

Sponge skeletons as an important sink of silicon in the global oceans

Author(s): Manuel Maldonado, María López-Acosta, Cèlia Sitjà, Marta García-Puig, Cristina Galobart, Gemma Ercilla, Aude Leynaert
Published in: Nature Geoscience, Issue 12/10, 2019, Page(s) 815-822, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-019-0430-7

Breakthrough in marine invertebrate cell culture: Sponge cells divide rapidly in improved nutrient medium

Author(s): Megan Conkling, Kylie Hesp, Stephanie Munroe, Kenneth Sandoval, Dirk E. Martens, Detmer Sipkema, Rene H. Wijffels, Shirley A. Pomponi
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 9, 2019, Page(s) 17321, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-53643-y

Climate change winner in the deep sea? Predicting the impacts of climate change on the distribution of the glass sponge Vazella pourtalesii

Author(s): L Beazley, E Kenchington, FJ Murillo, D Brickman, Z Wang, AJ Davies, EM Roberts, HT Rapp
Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series, Issue 657, 2021, Page(s) 1-23, ISSN 0171-8630
Publisher: Inter-Research Science Publishing
DOI: 10.3354/meps13566

Oceanographic setting and short-timescale environmental variability at an Arctic seamount sponge ground

Author(s): E.M. Roberts, F. Mienis, H.T. Rapp, U. Hanz, H.K. Meyer, A.J. Davies
Published in: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, Issue 138, 2018, Page(s) 98-113, ISSN 0967-0637
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2018.06.007

Dissolved organic carbon ( DOC ) is essential to balance the metabolic demands of four dominant North‐Atlantic deep‐sea sponges

Author(s): Martijn C. Bart, Benjamin Mueller, Titus Rombouts, Clea Ven, Gabrielle J. Tompkins, Ronald Osinga, Corina P.D. Brussaard, Barry MacDonald, Anja Engel, Hans Tore Rapp, Jasper M. Goeij
Published in: Limnology and Oceanography, Issue 9999, 2020, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 0024-3590
Publisher: American Society of Limnonogy and Oceanography
DOI: 10.1002/lno.11652

Population connectivity of fan-shaped sponge holobionts in the deep Cantabrian Sea

Author(s): Kathrin Busch, Sergi Taboada, Ana Riesgo, Vasiliki Koutsouveli, Pilar Ríos, Javier Cristobo, Andre Franke, Klaus Getzlaff, Christina Schmidt, Arne Biastoch, Ute Hentschel
Published in: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, Issue 167, 2021, Page(s) 103427, ISSN 0967-0637
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2020.103427

On the way to specificity ‐ Microbiome reflects sponge genetic cluster primarily in highly structured populations

Author(s): Cristina Díez‐Vives, Sergi Taboada, Carlos Leiva, Kathrin Busch, Ute Hentschel, Ana Riesgo
Published in: Molecular Ecology, Issue 29/22, 2020, Page(s) 4412-4427, ISSN 0962-1083
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15635

Bacterial precursors and unsaturated long-chain fatty acids are biomarkers of North-Atlantic deep-sea demosponges

Author(s): Anna de Kluijver, Klaas G. J. Nierop, Teresa M. Morganti, Martijn C. Bart, Beate M. Slaby, Ulrike Hanz, Jasper M. de Goeij, Furu Mienis, Jack J. Middelburg
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 16/1, 2021, Page(s) e0241095, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241095

Genetic diversity, connectivity and gene flow along the distribution of the emblematic Atlanto-Mediterranean sponge Petrosia ficiformis (Haplosclerida, Demospongiae)

Author(s): Ana Riesgo, Sergi Taboada, Rocío Pérez-Portela, Paolo Melis, Joana R. Xavier, Gema Blasco, Susanna López-Legentil
Published in: BMC Evolutionary Biology, Issue 19/1, 2019, ISSN 1471-2148
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-018-1343-6

Differential processing of dissolved and particulate organic matter by deep-sea sponges and their microbial symbionts

Author(s): Martijn C. Bart, Anna de Kluijver, Sean Hoetjes, Samira Absalah, Benjamin Mueller, Ellen Kenchington, Hans Tore Rapp, Jasper M. de Goeij
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, Page(s) 17515, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-74670-0

A new deep-water Tethya (Porifera, Tethyida, Tethyidae) from the Great Australian Bight and an updated Tethyida phylogeny

Author(s): Shirley J. Sorokin, Merrick G. Ekins, Qi Yang, Paco Cárdenas
Published in: European Journal of Taxonomy, Issue 529, 2019, Page(s) 1-26, ISSN 2118-9773
Publisher: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.529

Evidence of Vent-Adaptation in Sponges Living at the Periphery of Hydrothermal Vent Environments: Ecological and Evolutionary Implications

Author(s): Magdalena N. Georgieva, Sergi Taboada, Ana Riesgo, Cristina Díez-Vives, Fabio C. De Leo, Rachel M. Jeffreys, Jonathan T. Copley, Crispin T. S. Little, Pilar Ríos, Javier Cristobo, Jon T. Hestetun, Adrian G. Glover
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 11, 2020, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01636

Spatial patterns of arctic sponge ground fauna and demersal fish are detectable in autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imagery

Author(s): H.K. Meyer, E.M. Roberts, H.T. Rapp, A.J. Davies
Published in: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, Issue 153, 2019, Page(s) 103137, ISSN 0967-0637
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2019.103137

Characterization and Mapping of a Deep-Sea Sponge Ground on the Tropic Seamount (Northeast Tropical Atlantic): Implications for Spatial Management in the High Seas

Author(s): Berta Ramiro-Sánchez, José Manuel González-Irusta, Lea-Anne Henry, Jason Cleland, Isobel Yeo, Joana R. Xavier, Marina Carreiro-Silva, Íris Sampaio, Jeremy Spearman, Lissette Victorero, Charles G. Messing, Georgios Kazanidis, J. Murray Roberts, Bramley Murton
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 6, 2019, Page(s) 278, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00278

On giant shoulders: how a seamount affects the microbial community composition of seawater and sponges

Author(s): Kathrin Busch, Ulrike Hanz, Furu Mienis, Benjamin Mueller, Andre Franke, Emyr Martyn Roberts, Hans Tore Rapp, Ute Hentschel
Published in: Biogeosciences, Issue 17/13, 2020, Page(s) 3471-3486, ISSN 1726-4189
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/bg-17-3471-2020

Multidisciplinary Scientific Cruise to the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Azores Archipelago

Author(s): Luis Somoza, Teresa Medialdea, Francisco J. González, António Calado, Andreia Afonso, Mónica Albuquerque, María Asensio-Ramos, Renato Bettencourt, Iker Blasco, Jose A. Candón, Marina Carreiro-Silva, Constantino Cid, Cristina De Ignacio, Enrique López-Pamo, Sara Machancoses, Bruno Ramos, Luisa Pinto Ribeiro, Blanca Rincón-Tomás, Esther Santofimia, Miguel Souto, Inês Tojeira, Cláudia Viega
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 7, 2020, Page(s) 568035, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.568035

Heck diversification of indole-based substrates under aqueous conditions: From indoles to unprotected halo-tryptophans and halo-tryptophans in natural product derivatives

Author(s): Cristina Pubill‐Ulldemolins, Sunil V. Sharma, Christopher Cartmell, Jinlian Zhao, Paco Cárdenas, Rebecca J. M. Goss
Published in: Chemistry - A European Journal, Issue 25, 2019, Page(s) 10866–10875, ISSN 1521-3765
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201901327

An Integrative Model of Carbon and Nitrogen Metabolism in a Common Deep-Sea Sponge (Geodia barretti)

Author(s): Anna de Kluijver, Martijn C. Bart, Dick van Oevelen, Jasper M. de Goeij, Sally P. Leys, Sandra R. Maier, Manuel Maldonado, Karline Soetaert, Sander Verbiest, Jack J. Middelburg
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 7, 2021, Page(s) 596251, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.596251

Seasonal Variability in Near-bed Environmental Conditions in the Vazella pourtalesii Glass Sponge Grounds of the Scotian Shelf

Author(s): Ulrike Hanz, Lindsay Beazley, Ellen Kenchington, Gerard Duineveld, Hans Tore Rapp, Furu Mienis
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 7, 2021, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.597682

Massive silicon utilization facilitated by a benthic‐pelagic coupled feedback sustains deep‐sea sponge aggregations

Author(s): Manuel Maldonado, Lindsay Beazley, María López‐Acosta, Ellen Kenchington, Benoit Casault, Ulrike Hanz, Furu Mienis
Published in: Limnology and Oceanography, Issue 9999, 2020, Page(s) 1-26, ISSN 0024-3590
Publisher: American Society of Limnonogy and Oceanography
DOI: 10.1002/lno.11610

Water masses constrain the distribution of deep-sea sponges in the North Atlantic Ocean and Nordic Seas

Author(s): EM Roberts, DG Bowers, HK Meyer, A Samuelsen, HT Rapp, P Cárdenas
Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series, Issue 659, 2021, Page(s) 75-96, ISSN 0171-8630
Publisher: Inter-Research Science Publishing
DOI: 10.3354/meps13570

Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep‐sea resource extraction

Author(s): Lisa A. Levin, Chih‐Lin Wei, Daniel C. Dunn, Diva J. Amon, Oliver S. Ashford, William W. L. Cheung, Ana Colaço, Carlos Dominguez‐Carrió, Elva G. Escobar, Harriet R. Harden‐Davies, Jeffrey C. Drazen, Khaira Ismail, Daniel O. B. Jones, David E. Johnson, Jennifer T. Le, Franck Lejzerowicz Satoshi, Mitarai Telmo Morato, Sandor Mulsow, Paul V. R. Snelgrove, Andrew K. Sweetman, Moriaki Yasuhara
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 26/9, 2020, Page(s) 4664-4678, ISSN 1365-2486
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15223

Drivers of Megabenthic Community Structure in One of the World’s Deepest Silled-Fjords, Sognefjord (Western Norway)

Author(s): Heidi K. Meyer, Emyr M. Roberts, Furu Mienis, Hans T. Rapp
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 7, 2020, Page(s) 393, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00393

Seven new deep-water Tetractinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the Galápagos Islands – morphological descriptions and DNA barcodes

Author(s): Astrid Schuster, Paco Cárdenas, Andrzej Pisera, Shirley A Pomponi, Michelle Kelly, Gert Wörheide, Dirk Erpenbeck
Published in: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Issue 184/2, 2018, Page(s) 273-303, ISSN 0024-4082
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx110

A decade to study deep-sea life

Author(s): Kerry L. Howell, Ana Hilário, A. Louise Allcock, David Bailey, Maria Baker, Malcolm R. Clark, Ana Colaço, Jon Copley, Erik E. Cordes, Roberto Danovaro, Awantha Dissanayake, Elva Escobar, Patricia Esquete, Austin J. Gallagher, Andrew R. Gates, Sylvie M. Gaudron, Christopher R. German, Kristina M. Gjerde, Nicholas D. Higgs, Nadine Le Bris, Lisa A. Levin, Elisabetta Manea, Craig McClain, Lenaick Me
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2020, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-01352-5

The Molecular Machinery of Gametogenesis in Geodia Demosponges (Porifera): Evolutionary Origins of a Conserved Toolkit across Animals

Author(s): Vasiliki Koutsouveli, Paco Cárdenas, Nadiezhda Santodomingo, Anabel Marina, Esperanza Morato, Hans Tore Rapp, Ana Riesgo
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Issue 37/12, 2020, Page(s) 3485-3506, ISSN 0737-4038
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaa183

In situ determination of Si, N, and P utilization by the demosponge Tethya citrina: A benthic-chamber approach

Author(s): María López-Acosta, Aude Leynaert, Laurent Chavaud, Erwan Amice, Isabelle Bihannic, Thierry Le Bec, Manuel Maldonado
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 14/7, 2019, Page(s) e0218787, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218787

First records of Geodia demosponges from the New England seamounts, an opportunity to test the use of DNA mini-barcodes on museum specimens

Author(s): Paco Cárdenas, Jon A. Moore
Published in: Marine Biodiversity, Issue 49/01, 2017, Page(s) 163-174, ISSN 1867-1616
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12526-017-0775-3

Insights into the reproduction of some Antarctic dendroceratid, poecilosclerid, and haplosclerid demosponges

Author(s): Vasiliki Koutsouveli, Sergi Taboada, Juan Moles, Javier Cristobo, Pilar Ríos, Andrea Bertran, Joan Solà, Conxita Avila, Ana Riesgo
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 13/2, 2018, Page(s) e0192267, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192267

The sponge holobiont in a changing ocean: from microbes to ecosystems

Author(s): L. Pita, L. Rix, B. M. Slaby, A. Franke, U. Hentschel
Published in: Microbiome, Issue 6/1, 2018, Page(s) 46, ISSN 2049-2618
Publisher: BMC - Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-018-0428-1

Silicon isotopes of deep sea sponges: new insights into biomineralisation and skeletal structure

Author(s): Lucie Cassarino, Christopher D. Coath, Joana R. Xavier, Katharine R. Hendry
Published in: Biogeosciences, Issue 15/22, 2018, Page(s) 6959-6977, ISSN 1726-4189
Publisher: Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union
DOI: 10.5194/bg-15-6959-2018

Marine Sponges as Chloroflexi Hot Spots: Genomic Insights and High-Resolution Visualization of an Abundant and Diverse Symbiotic Clade

Author(s): Kristina Bayer, Martin T. Jahn, Beate M. Slaby, Lucas Moitinho-Silva, Ute Hentschel
Published in: mSystems, Issue 3/6, 2018, Page(s) e00150-18, ISSN 2379-5077
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology ASM
DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00150-18

Internal wave turbulence at a biologically rich Mid-Atlantic seamount

Author(s): Hans van Haren, Ulrike Hanz, Henko de Stigter, Furu Mienis, Gerard Duineveld
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 12/12, 2017, Page(s) e0189720, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189720

Niche overlap between a cold-water coral and an associated sponge for isotopically-enriched particulate food sources

Author(s): Dick van Oevelen, Christina E. Mueller, Tomas Lundälv, Fleur C. van Duyl, Jasper M. de Goeij, Jack J. Middelburg
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 13/3, 2018, Page(s) e0194659, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194659

Silicon consumption kinetics by marine sponges: An assessment of their role at the ecosystem level

Author(s): María López-Acosta, Aude Leynaert, Jacques Grall, Manuel Maldonado
Published in: Limnology and Oceanography, Issue 63/6, 2018, Page(s) 2508-2522, ISSN 0024-3590
Publisher: American Society of Limnonogy and Oceanography
DOI: 10.1002/lno.10956

Fueled by methane: deep-sea sponges from asphalt seeps gain their nutrition from methane-oxidizing symbionts

Author(s): Maxim Rubin-Blum, Chakkiath Paul Antony, Lizbeth Sayavedra, Clara Martínez-Pérez, Daniel Birgel, Jörn Peckmann, Yu-Chen Wu, Paco Cardenas, Ian MacDonald, Yann Marcon, Heiko Sahling, Ute Hentschel, Nicole Dubilier
Published in: The ISME Journal, Issue 13/5, 2019, Page(s) 1209-1225, ISSN 1751-7362
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-019-0346-7

Silicon utilization by sponges: an assessment of seasonal changes

Author(s): M López-Acosta, A Leynaert, V Coquille, M Maldonado
Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series, Issue 605, 2018, Page(s) 111-123, ISSN 0171-8630
Publisher: Inter-Research Science Publishing
DOI: 10.3354/meps12752

Predicted distribution of the glass sponge Vazella pourtalesi on the Scotian Shelf and its persistence in the face of climatic variability

Author(s): Lindsay Beazley, Zeliang Wang, Ellen Kenchington, Igor Yashayaev, Hans Tore Rapp, Joana R. Xavier, Francisco Javier Murillo, Derek Fenton, Susanna Fuller
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 13/10, 2018, Page(s) e0205505, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205505

Exploration and exploitation of the environment for novel specialized metabolites

Author(s): Catarina Loureiro, Marnix H Medema, John van der Oost, Detmer Sipkema
Published in: Current Opinion in Biotechnology, Issue 50, 2018, Page(s) 206-213, ISSN 0958-1669
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2018.01.017

Deep-water sponge fauna from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz (North Atlantic, Spain)

Author(s): C. Sitjà, M. Maldonado, C. Farias, J. L. Rueda
Published in: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 2018, Page(s) 1-25, ISSN 0025-3154
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315418000589

Internal Wave Observations Off Saba Bank

Author(s): Hans van Haren, Gerard Duineveld, Furu Mienis
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 5, 2019, Page(s) 528, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00528

A Multi Criteria Assessment Method for Identifying Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the North-East Atlantic

Author(s): Telmo Morato, Christopher K. Pham, Carlos Pinto, Neil Golding, Jeff A. Ardron, Pablo Durán Muñoz, Francis Neat
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 5, 2018, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00460

Sponge-derived silica for tissue regeneration

Author(s): Olesia Dudik, Isabel Leonor, Joana R. Xavier, Hans Tore Rapp, Ricardo A. Pires, Tiago H. Silva, Rui L. Reis
Published in: Materials Today, Issue 21/5, 2018, Page(s) 577-578, ISSN 1369-7021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.mattod.2018.03.025

Glass sponge grounds on the Scotian Shelf and their associated biodiversity

Author(s): N Hawkes, M Korabik, L Beazley, HT Rapp, JR Xavier, E Kenchington
Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series, Issue 614, 2019, Page(s) 91-109, ISSN 0171-8630
Publisher: Inter-Research Science Publishing
DOI: 10.3354/meps12903

Sponge assemblages and predicted archetypes in the eastern Canadian Arctic

Author(s): FJ Murillo, E Kenchington, G Tompkins, L Beazley, E Baker, A Knudby, W Walkusz
Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series, Issue 597, 2018, Page(s) 115-135, ISSN 0171-8630
Publisher: Inter-Research Science Publishing
DOI: 10.3354/meps12589

From marine caves to the deep sea, a new look at Caminella (Demospongiae, Geodiidae) in the Atlanto-Mediterranean region

Author(s): PACO CÁRDENAS, JEAN VACELET, PIERRE CHEVALDONNÉ, THIERRY PÉREZ, JOANA R. XAVIER
Published in: Zootaxa, Issue 4466/1, 2018, Page(s) 174, ISSN 1175-5326
Publisher: Magnolia Press
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4466.1.14

Connectivity modelling of areas closed to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems in the northwest Atlantic

Author(s): Ellen Kenchington, Zeliang Wang, Camille Lirette, Francisco Javier Murillo, Javier Guijarro, Igor Yashayaev, Manuel Maldonado
Published in: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, Issue 143, 2019, Page(s) 85-103, ISSN 0967-0637
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2018.11.007

Sponge grounds of Artemisina (Porifera, Demospongiae) in the Iberian Peninsula, ecological characterization by ROV techniques

Author(s): PILAR RÍOS, RICARDO AGUILAR, ANA TORRIENTE, ARACELI MUÑOZ, JAVIER CRISTOBO
Published in: Zootaxa, Issue 4466/1, 2018, Page(s) 95, ISSN 1175-5326
Publisher: Magnolia Press
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4466.1.10

Metagenomic binning reveals versatile nutrient cycling and distinct adaptive features in alphaproteobacterial symbionts of marine sponges

Author(s): Elham Karimi, Beate M Slaby, André R Soares, Jochen Blom, Ute Hentschel, Rodrigo Costa
Published in: FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Issue 94/6, 2018, ISSN 1574-6941
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiy074

Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes

Author(s): Sina M. Adl, David Bass, Christopher E. Lane, Julius Lukeš, Conrad L. Schoch, Alexey Smirnov, Sabine Agatha, Cedric Berney, Matthew W. Brown, Fabien Burki, Paco Cárdenas, Ivan Čepička, Ludmila Chistyakova, Javier del Campo, Micah Dunthorn, Bente Edvardsen, Yana Eglit, Laure Guillou, Vladimír Hampl, Aaron A. Heiss, Mona Hoppenrath, Timothy Y. James, Sergey Karpov, Eunsoo Kim, Martin Kolisko, A
Published in: Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 2018, ISSN 1066-5234
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12691

Silicon isotopic systematics of deep-sea sponge grounds in the North Atlantic

Author(s): Katharine R. Hendry, Lucie Cassarino, Stephanie L. Bates, Timothy Culwick, Molly Frost, Claire Goodwin, Kerry L. Howell
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 210, 2019, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.02.017

Demosponge steroid biomarker 26-methylstigmastane provides evidence for Neoproterozoic animals

Author(s): J. Alex Zumberge, Gordon D. Love, Paco Cárdenas, Erik A. Sperling, Sunithi Gunasekera, Megan Rohrssen, Emmanuelle Grosjean, John P. Grotzinger, Roger E. Summons
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 2/11, 2018, Page(s) 1709-1714, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Nature Publishing AG
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0676-2

Polymastiidae (Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with ornamented exotyles: a review of morphological affinities and description of a new genus and three new species

Author(s): Alexander Plotkin, Christine Morrow, Elena Gerasimova, Hans Tore Rapp
Published in: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Issue 97/06, 2017, Page(s) 1351-1406, ISSN 0025-3154
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315416000655

Polymastiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) of the Nordic and Siberian Seas

Author(s): Alexander Plotkin, Elena Gerasimova, Hans Tore Rapp
Published in: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Issue 98/06, 2017, Page(s) 1-63, ISSN 0025-3154
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315417000285

The Microbiome and Occurrence of Methanotrophy in Carnivorous Sponges

Author(s): Jon T. Hestetun, Håkon Dahle, Steffen L. Jørgensen, Bernt R. Olsen, Hans T. Rapp
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 7, 2016, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01781

Molecular phylogenies challenge the classification of Polymastiidae (Porifera, Demospongiae) based on morphology

Author(s): Alexander Plotkin, Oliver Voigt, Endre Willassen, Hans Tore Rapp
Published in: Organisms Diversity & Evolution, Issue 17/1, 2017, Page(s) 45-66, ISSN 1439-6092
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1007/s13127-016-0301-7

A review of carnivorous sponges (Porifera: Cladorhizidae) from the Boreal North Atlantic and Arctic

Author(s): Jon Thomassen Hestetun, Gabrielle Tompkins-Macdonald, Hans Tore Rapp
Published in: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Issue 181/1, 2017, Page(s) 1-69, ISSN 0024-4082
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlw022

Metagenomic binning of a marine sponge microbiome reveals unity in defense but metabolic specialization

Author(s): Beate M Slaby, Thomas Hackl, Hannes Horn, Kristina Bayer, Ute Hentschel
Published in: The ISME Journal, Issue 11, 2017, Page(s) 2465–2478, ISSN 1751-7362
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2017.101

Genomic blueprints of sponge-prokaryote symbiosis are shared by low abundant and cultivatable Alphaproteobacteria

Author(s): Elham Karimi, Tina Keller-Costa, Beate M. Slaby, Cymon J. Cox, Ulisses N. da Rocha, Ute Hentschel, Rodrigo Costa
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 9/1, 2019, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-38737-x

Export of bathyal benthos to the Atlantic through the Mediterranean outflow: Sponges from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz as a case study

Author(s): Cèlia Sitjà, Manuel Maldonado, Carlos Farias, José L. Rueda
Published in: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, Issue 163, 2020, Page(s) 103326, ISSN 0967-0637
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2020.103326

Microbial diversity of the glass sponge Vazella pourtalesii in response to anthropogenic activities

Author(s): Kathrin Busch, Lindsay Beazley, Ellen Kenchington, Frederick Whoriskey, Beate M. Slaby, Ute Hentschel
Published in: Conservation Genetics, Issue 21/6, 2020, Page(s) 1001-1010, ISSN 1566-0621
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-020-01305-2

Revision of the genus Exsuperantia Özdikmen, 2009 (Tetractinellida: Phymaraphiniidae) with description of a new species from the Atlantic Ocean

Author(s): FRANCISCA C. CARVALHO, ANDRZEJ PISERA
Published in: Zootaxa, Issue 4613/1, 2019, Page(s) 135-151, ISSN 1175-5326
Publisher: Magnolia Press
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4613.1.7

Molecular study supports the position of the New Zealand endemic genus Lamellomorpha in the family Vulcanellidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida), with the description of three new species

Author(s): Michele Kelly, Paco Cárdenas, Nicola Rush, Carina Sim-Smith, Diana Macpherson, Mike Page, Lori J. Bell
Published in: European Journal of Taxonomy, Issue 506, 2019, ISSN 2118-9773
Publisher: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.506

Chloroflexi Dominate the Deep-Sea Golf Ball Sponges Craniella zetlandica and Craniella infrequens Throughout Different Life Stages

Author(s): Kathrin Busch, Erik Wurz, Hans Tore Rapp, Kristina Bayer, Andre Franke, Ute Hentschel
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 7, 2020, Page(s) 674, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00674

Environmental factors influencing benthic communities in the oxygen minimum zones on the Angolan and Namibian margins

Author(s): U. Hanz; C. Wienberg; D. Hebbeln; G. Duineveld; M. Lavaleye; K. Juva; W.-C. Dullo; A. Freiwald; L. Tamborrino; G.-J. Reichart; G.-J. Reichart; S. Flögel; F. Mienis
Published in: Biogeosciences, Issue 16, 2019, Page(s) 4337-4356, ISSN 1726-4189
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/bg-16-4337-2019

Author Correction: Removal of deep-sea sponges by bottom trawling in the Flemish Cap area: conservation, ecology and economic assessment

Author(s): C. K. Pham, F. J. Murillo, C. Lirette, M. Maldonado, A. Colaço, D. Ottaviani, E. Kenchington
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-60908-4

Deep-sea sponge grounds as nutrient sinks: denitrification is common in boreo-Arctic sponges

Author(s): Christine Rooks, James Kar-Hei Fang, Pål Tore Mørkved, Rui Zhao, Hans Tore Rapp, Joana R. Xavier, Friederike Hoffmann
Published in: Biogeosciences, Issue 17/5, 2020, Page(s) 1231-1245, ISSN 1726-4189
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/bg-17-1231-2020

Climate‐induced changes in the suitable habitat of cold‐water corals and commercially important deep‐sea fishes in the North Atlantic

Author(s): Telmo Morato, José‐Manuel González‐Irusta, Carlos Dominguez‐Carrió, Chih‐Lin Wei, Andrew Davies, Andrew K. Sweetman, Gerald H. Taranto, Lindsay Beazley, Ana García‐Alegre, Anthony Grehan, Pascal Laffargue, Francisco Javier Murillo, Mar Sacau, Sandrine Vaz, Ellen Kenchington, Sophie Arnaud‐Haond, Oisín Callery, Giovanni Chimienti, Erik Cordes, Hronn Egilsdottir, André Freiwald, Ry
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 26/4, 2020, Page(s) 2181-2202, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14996

Surface Microornamentation of Demosponge Sterraster Spicules, Phylogenetic and Paleontological Implications

Author(s): Cárdenas, Paco
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 7, 2020, Page(s) 613610, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.613610

Prokaryotic Diversity and Community Patterns in Antarctic Continental Shelf Sponges

Author(s): Georg Steinert, Bernd Wemheuer, Dorte Janussen, Dirk Erpenbeck, Rolf Daniel, Meinhard Simon, Thorsten Brinkhoff, Peter J. Schupp
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 6, 2019, Page(s) 297, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00297

Buchwald Hartwig diversification of unprotected halotryptophans, halotryptophan containing tripeptides and the natural product barettin in aqueous conditions

Author(s): Yohann J. G. Renault, Rosemary Lynch, Enrico Marelli, Sunil V. Sharma, Cristina Pubill-Ulldemolins, Joshua A. Sharp, Christopher Cartmell, Paco Cárdenas, Rebecca J. M. Goss
Published in: Chemical Communications, Issue 55/91, 2019, Page(s) 13653-13656, ISSN 1359-7345
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc02554e

Removal of deep-sea sponges by bottom trawling in the Flemish Cap area: conservation, ecology and economic assessment

Author(s): C. K. Pham, F. J. Murillo, C. Lirette, M. Maldonado, A. Colaço, D. Ottaviani, E. Kenchington
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 9/1, 2019, Page(s) 15843, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52250-1

3-D ocean particle tracking modeling reveals extensive vertical movement and downstream interdependence of closed areas in the northwest Atlantic

Author(s): S. Wang, E. L. Kenchington, Z. Wang, I. Yashayaev, A. J. Davies
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, Page(s) 21421, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76617-x

The First Cut Is the Deepest: Trawl Effects on a Deep-Sea Sponge Ground Are Pronounced Four Years on

Author(s): Katelin M. Morrison, Heidi Kristina Meyer, Emyr Martyn Roberts, Hans Tore Rapp, Ana Colaço, Christopher Kim Pham
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 7, 2020, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.605281

Compositional and Quantitative Insights Into Bacterial and Archaeal Communities of South Pacific Deep-Sea Sponges (Demospongiae and Hexactinellida)

Author(s): Georg Steinert, Kathrin Busch, Kristina Bayer, Sahar Kodami, Pedro Martinez Arbizu, Michelle Kelly, Sadie Mills, Dirk Erpenbeck, Martin Dohrmann, Gert Wörheide, Ute Hentschel, Peter J. Schupp
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 11, 2020, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00716

Comparative genomic analysis of Flavobacteriaceae: insights into carbohydrate metabolism, gliding motility and secondary metabolite biosynthesis

Author(s): Asimenia Gavriilidou, Johanna Gutleben, Dennis Versluis, Francesca Forgiarini, Mark W. J. van Passel, Colin J. Ingham, Hauke Smidt, Detmer Sipkema
Published in: BMC Genomics, Issue 21/1, 2020, ISSN 1471-2164
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-020-06971-7

A community perspective on the concept of marine holobionts: current status, challenges, and future directions

Author(s): Simon M Dittami, Enrique Arboleda, Jean-Christophe Auguet, Arite Bigalke, Enora Briand, Paco Cardenas, Ulisse Cardini, Johan Decelle, Aschwin H Engelen, Damien Eveillard, Claire M.M. Gachon, Sarah M Griffiths, Tilmann Harder, Ehsan Kayal, Elena Kazamia, François H Lallier, Mónica Medina, Ezequiel Marzinelli, Teresa Morganti, Laura Núñez Pons, Soizic Prado, José Pintado, Mahasweta Saha, Mar
Published in: PeerJ Preprints, Issue 7, 2019, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.27519v3

SponGES Policy Brief – Databases and models: new tools for management

Author(s): FAO
Published in: FAO, Issue 1, 2020, Page(s) 8
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4495094

SponGES Policy Brief: Threats and impacts on sponge grounds

Author(s): FAO
Published in: FAO, Issue 2, 2021, Page(s) 8
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4497453

SponGES Policy Brief: The ecological value of deep-sea sponges

Author(s): FAO
Published in: FAO, Issue 5, 2021, Page(s) 8
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4497600

Technical measures and environmental risk assessments for deep-sea sponge conservation

Author(s): Thompson, Tony; Fuller, Susanna D
Published in: FAO, Issue 3, 2020
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3859806

A Pictorial Guide to the Epibenthic Megafauna of Orphan Knoll (northwest Atlantic) Identified from In Situ Benthic Video Footage

Author(s): Wudrick, Alannah; Beazley, Lindsay; Culwick, Timothy; Goodwin, Claire; Cárdenas, Paco; Xavier, Joana; Kenchington, Ellen
Published in: Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 3375, Issue 1, 2020, Page(s) 154, ISBN 978-0-660-34937-4
Publisher: Ocean and Ecosystem Sciences Division Maritimes Region
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3835865

Chapter 6. Vulnerabilities: invertebrate taxa (indicators for vulnerable marine ecosystems)

Author(s): Xavier, Joana R; Carreiro Silva, Marina; Colaço, Ana; Le Bris, Nadine; Levin, Lisa
Published in: FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper, Issue 638, 2018, Page(s) 186, ISBN 978-92-5-131126-4
Publisher: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4298534

SponGES Policy Brief - The economic value of deep-sea sponges

Author(s): FAO
Published in: FAO, Issue 2, 2020
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4497289

Sponges from the 2010-2014 Paamiut Multispecies Trawl Surveys, Eastern Arctic and Subarctic: Class Demospongiae, Subclass Heteroscleromorpha, Order Poecilosclerida, Families Microcionidae, Acarnidae and Esperiopsidae

Author(s): Bouchard Marmen, Mariève; Tompkins, Gabrielle; Harrington, Nicole; Savard-Drouin, Alexis; Wells, Molly; Baker, Emily; Odenthal, Brighid; Walkusz, Wojciech; Siferd, Tim; Kenchington, Ellen
Published in: Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Issue 3349, 2019, Page(s) 76 pp, ISBN 978-0-660-33477-6
Publisher: Ocean and Ecosystem Sciences Division Maritimes Region Fisheries and Oceans
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3831235

Comparison of physical connectivity particle tracking models in the Flemish Cap region

Author(s): Wang, Shuangqiang; Wang, Zeilang; Lirette, Camille; Davies, Andrew J; Kenchington, Ellen L
Published in: Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Issue 3353, 2019, Page(s) 39, ISBN 978-0-660-33600-8
Publisher: Ocean and Ecosystem Sciences Division Maritimes Region Fisheries and Oceans Canada Bedford Institute of Oceanography
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3663643

SponGES Policy Brief: The social and cultural value of deep-sea sponges

Author(s): FAO
Published in: FAO, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 8
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4497542

Procedure for processing and preserving sponge samples

Author(s): FAO
Published in: Issue 5, 2017
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1204878

SponGES WP6: Threats and impacts to sponge grounds

Author(s): FAO
Published in: Issue 5, 2018
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1205056

SponGES WP4: Ecosystem functions, services, and goods

Author(s): FAO
Published in: Issue 1, 2018
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1204904

Identification of sponge species

Author(s): FAO
Published in: Issue 4, 2017
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1204880

SponGES WP8: Resource management and conservation

Author(s): FAO
Published in: Issue 4, 2018
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1205061

SponGES WP1: Ecosystem characterization and mapping

Author(s): FAO
Published in: Issue 5, 2018
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1204891

SponGES WP3: Biogeographic patterns and connectivity

Author(s): FAO
Published in: Issue 7, 2018
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1204900

Scoping study on economic linkages and options for ecosystem valuation of deep-sea living marine resources and habitats in ABNJ

Author(s): FAO
Published in: Issue 7, 2017
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1204874

Global and regional policies and strategies for identification and protection of VMEs

Author(s): FAO
Published in: Issue 12, 2017
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1204873

Sponges and their role in the marine environment

Author(s): FAO
Published in: Issue 8, 2017
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1204889

What are vulnerable marine ecosystems?

Author(s): FAO
Published in: Issue 12, 2017
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1204882

SponGES WP2: Biodiversity

Author(s): FAO
Published in: Issue 12, 2018
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1204899

SponGES WP7: Modeling and predicting ecosystem changes

Author(s): FAO
Published in: Issue 12, 2018
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1204911

SponGES WP5: Biotechnological potential

Author(s): FAO
Published in: Issue 14, 2018
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1204910

Author(s): Baker, E; Odenthal, B; Walkusz, W; Sifred, T; Ríos, P; Tompkins, G; Kenchington, E
Published in: Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 3282, Issue 5, 2018, ISBN 9780-660284262
Publisher: Ocean and Ecosystem Sciences Division Maritimes Region Fisheries and Oceans
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2644921

Use of species distribution modeling in the deep sea

Author(s): Kenchington, E.; Callery, O.; Davidson, F.; Grehan, A.; Morato, T.; Appiott, J.; Davis, A.; Dunstan, P.; Du Preez, C.; Finney, J.; González-Irusta, J. M.; Howell, K.; Knudby, A.; Lacharité, M.; Lee, J; Murillo, F. J.; Beazley, L.; Roberts, J. M.; Roberts, M.; Rooper, C.; Rowden, A.; Rubidge, E.; Rowden, A.; Stanley, R.; Stirling, D.; Tanaka, K. R.; Vanhatalo, J.; Weigel, B.; Woolley, S; Yesson,
Published in: Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 3296, 2019, ISBN 978-0-660-29721-7
Publisher: Ocean and Ecosystem Sciences Division Maritimes Region Fisheries and Oceans
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2583828

A photographic guide of the species of the Gorringe Bank

Author(s): Oliveira, Federico; Aguilar, Ricardo; Monteiro, Pedro; Bentes, Luis; Afonso, Carlos M. L.; García, Silvia; Xavier, Joana X.; Ocaña, Oscar; de Matos, Valentina; Tavares, Ana Mafalda; Gonçalves, Jorge M. S.
Published in: 2017, ISBN 978-989-95587-4-8
Publisher: Centro de Ciéncias do Mar (CCMAR)/Oceana
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1009038

SponGES Policy Brief: Deep sea sponges: Biotechnology and the blue economy

Author(s): FAO
Published in: FAO, Issue 2, 2020
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4497247

Chapter 2, Climate change: overview and drivers

Author(s): Levin, Lisa; Kenny, Andrew; Le Bris, Nadine; Colaço, Ana; Carreiro Silva, Marina
Published in: Deep-ocean climate change impacts on habitat, fish and fisheries, Issue 4, 2018, Page(s) 7-18, ISBN 978-92-5-131126-4
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4297690

Deep Sea - From Unknown to Intended - Deep Sea Observatories, a Tool to Monitor Human Activities

Author(s): Ana Colaço; Marina Carreiro-Silva
Published in: Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Oceano: uma Utopia Útil / Sustainable Development of the Ocean: a Necessity, Issue 17, 2018, Page(s) 149-165, ISBN 978-989-8859-27-3
Publisher: Universidade do Algarve Editora
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2600713

Marine Sponge Holobionts in Health and Disease

Author(s): Beate M. Slaby, Andrea Franke, Laura Rix, Lucia Pita, Kristina Bayer, Martin T. Jahn, Ute Hentschel
Published in: Symbiotic Microbiomes of Coral Reefs Sponges and Corals, 2019, Page(s) 81-104, ISBN 978-94-024-1610-7
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-1612-1_7

Economic valuation of ecosystem services provided by deep-sea sponges

Author(s): Daniela Ottaviani
Published in: FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Circular, 2020, ISBN 978-92-5-133677-9
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.4060/cb2331en

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