Natural Diet of Coral-Excavating Sponges Consists Mainly of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC)

• Benjamin Mueller ,

  * E-mail: muellerb@ymail.com

  Affiliations Department of Biological Oceanography, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Hoorn, The Netherlands, CARMABI, Willemstad, Curaçao, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Jasper M. de Goeij,

  Affiliations CARMABI, Willemstad, Curaçao, Department of Aquatic Ecology and Ecotoxicology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Mark J. A. Vermeij,

  Affiliations CARMABI, Willemstad, Curaçao, Department of Aquatic Microbiology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Yannick Mulders,

  Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Esther van der Ent,

  Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Marta Ribes,

  Affiliation Departament de Biologia Marina i Oceanografia, Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

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• Fleur C. van Duyl

  Affiliations Department of Biological Oceanography, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Hoorn, The Netherlands, CARMABI, Willemstad, Curaçao

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