Sponges Recycle Resources for Reef Communities (2 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Sponges Recycle Resources for Reef Communities (2 of 8)

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Coral reef sponges in Curacao in the southern Caribbean Sea are shown. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 4 Oct., 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Jasper M. de Goeij at University of Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and colleagues was titled, "Surviving in a Marine Desert: The Sponge Loop Retains Resources Within Coral Reefs."

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[Image courtesy of Erik van Bommel]

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