Quantification of chemical and mechanical bioerosion rates of six Caribbean excavating sponge species found on the coral reefs of Curaçao

• Didier M. de Bakker ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: didier.debakker@wur.nl, didierdebakker@gmail.com

  Affiliations Wageningen Marine Research, Den Helder, Netherlands, Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Texel, Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2188-6827

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• Alice E. Webb,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ocean Systems, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Texel, Netherlands

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• Lisanne A. van den Bogaart,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Biology Research Group, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Steven M. A. C. van Heuven,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ocean Systems, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Texel, Netherlands

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• Erik H. Meesters,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wageningen Marine Research, Den Helder, Netherlands

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• Fleur C. van Duyl

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Texel, Netherlands

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