Marine heat waves drive bleaching and necrosis of temperate sponges

JJ Bell, RO Smith, V Micaroni, F Strano, CA Balemi… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Marine heat waves (MHWs) are extended periods of excessively warm water 1 that are
increasing in frequency, duration, intensity, and impact, and they likely represent a greater …

Sponges to be winners under near-future climate scenarios

JJ Bell, HM Bennett, A Rovellini, NS Webster - Bioscience, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Sponges are functionally important components of global benthic environments and have
been proposed as potential winners under future climate scenarios. We review the evidence …

Low bioerosion rates on inshore turbid reefs of Western Australia

S Dee, T DeCarlo, I Lozić, J Nilsen, NK Browne - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bioerosion on inshore reefs is expected to increase with global climate change reducing
reef stability and accretionary potential. Most studies investigating bioerosion have focused …

Future ocean conditions induce necrosis, microbial dysbiosis and nutrient cycling imbalance in the reef sponge Stylissa flabelliformis

ES Botté, H Bennett, JP Engelberts… - ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Oceans are rapidly warming and acidifying in the context of climate change, threatening
sensitive marine biota including coral reef sponges. Ocean warming (OW) and ocean …

Coupled ocean-atmosphere summer heatwaves in the New Zealand region

MJ Salinger, HJ Diamond, J Bell, E Behrens… - Weather and Climate, 2023 - JSTOR
During austral warm seasons (November-March, NDJFM) of 1934/35, 2017/18, 2018/19 and
2021/22 the New Zealand (NZ) region experienced the most intense coupled …

Marine heatwave‐driven mass mortality and microbial community reorganisation in an ecologically important temperate sponge

JJ Bell, V Micaroni, F Strano, KG Ryan… - Global change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are increasing in frequency, duration and intensity, disrupting
global marine ecosystems. While most reported impacts have been in tropical areas, New …

Differential Symbiodiniaceae association with coral and coral-eroding sponge in a bleaching Impacted marginal coral reef environment

S Mote, V Gupta, K De, A Hussain, K More… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Marginal reefs are known for severe stress-inducible perturbations such as high
sedimentation, eutrophication, ocean warming, and acidification from anthropogenic climate …

Heatwave hit phase shifted coral reefs: Zoantharian mass mortality record

VH Meira, F Barros, ZMAN Leão, ICS Cruz - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Phase shift is characterized by an abrupt change in the structure of a community in response
to a disturbance that can break its resistance, displacing it from its natural variation. This …

Decadal variability in sponge abundance and biodiversity on an Indo-Pacific coral reef

A Rovellini, MR Dunn, EA Fulton, NS Webster… - Marine Ecology …, 2019 - int-res.com
Natural communities can undergo large temporal changes in abundance and species
composition that may be difficult to detect without long-term ecological monitoring …

[HTML][HTML] Bioeroding sponge species from the Wakatobi region of southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia

J Marlow, JJ Bell, M Shaffer, A Haris, CHL Schoenberg - Zootaxa, 2021 - mapress.com
Sponges that excavate and inhabit calcareous substrate, predominantly of the Clionaidae,
are widely distributed in marine habitats, but are particularly diverse and abundant on coral …