Affiliation: Florida Marine Research Institute
- Latitudinal variation in spongivorous fishes and the effectiveness of sponge chemical defensesRob Ruzicka
Florida Department of Environmental Protection Coral Reef Conservation Program, 1277 NE 79th Street Causeway, Miami, FL, 33138, USA
Oecologia 154:785-94. 2008..These results support the more general hypothesis that a lower density and diversity of sponge predators occurs at high as compared to low latitudes in the western Atlantic and may contribute to decreased investment in chemical defenses...