Sponge chemical defenses are a possible mechanism for increasing sponge abundance on reefs in Zanzibar

• Stephanie B. Helber ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: peter.schupp@uni-oldenburg.de (PJS); stephanie.helber@leibniz-zmt.de (SBH)

  Affiliations Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6579-7928

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• Dieuwke J. J. Hoeijmakers,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany

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• Christopher A. Muhando,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS), University of Dar es Salaam, Stonetown, Zanzibar, Tanzania

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• Sven Rohde,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

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• Peter J. Schupp

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: peter.schupp@uni-oldenburg.de (PJS); stephanie.helber@leibniz-zmt.de (SBH)

  Affiliations Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

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