Hidden Sponges Determine Coral Reef's Nutrient Cycle. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2005 / 09 / 050917085649.htm.

Marine organisms hidden in caves, such as sponges, play an extremely important role in the nutrient cycle of coral reefs. Indeed they probably play the most important role of all, says Dutch ...

A Novel Technique for the Reattachment of Large Coral Reef Sponges. Restoration Ecology , 2009; 17 (2): 192 DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00463.x Cite This Page : ...

Coral reefs are demolished from within, by bio-eroding sponges. Seeking refuge from predators, these sponges bore tunnels into the carbonate coral structures, thus weakening the reefs. Scientists ...

According to the analysis, invading sponges can erode coral reefs faster than rising CO2 concentrations. As numerous studies have detailed, ...

Microbes, sponges, and worms—the side effects of pollution and heavy fishing—are adding insult to injury in Kenya's imperiled reef systems, according to a recent study by the Wildlife ...

Researchers didn't even think the oxymoronic structures -- sponges made of glass that form reefs -- even existed anymore. Captured in the fossil record, they were thought until fairly recently to ...

The Lophiostroma leizunia has pushed back the fossil record of this group of sponges and the reefs they produced 20 million years earlier than they thought, according to a study published in PNAS.