Historical change in a Caribbean reef sponge community and long-term loss of sponge predators

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• spicule 100%
• sponge 79%
• reef 66%
• predator 66%
• loss 41%
• coral 26%
• accretion 17%
• skeletal remains 12%
• turtle 10%
• accumulation rate 10%
• archipelago 9%
• coral reef 9%
• sediment core 9%
• relative abundance 8%
• tooth 8%
• rate 6%
• fish 5%
• ecosystem 5%
• sea 5%
• trend 4%
• sediment 4%
• analysis 2%

Agriculture & Biology

• Porifera 89%
• reefs 82%
• predators 57%
• corals 35%
• Scaridae 34%
• Panama 24%
• sediments 20%
• sea turtles 14%
• coral reefs 12%
• teeth 9%
• ecosystems 8%
• degradation 6%
• fish 6%