Geographic range size and species morphology determines the organization of sponge host-guest interaction networks across tropical coral reefs

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Introduction

Materials and Methods

Database

Characterizing the structure of sponge-assosiated fauna network

Network structural contribution

Sponge functional traits

Statistical analysis

Results

Network-level properties

Trait-level properties

Discussion

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Meta-bias analysis results.

This graph exhibits the number of citations per EcoRegion and their corresponding proportion. Neither Citation Heterogeneity nor Citation Bias are statistically significant. The ecoregions are based on the Marine Ecoregions of the World classification (Spalding et al., 2007)

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Principal Component Ordination of the seven species-level descriptors.

Purple dots represents each sponge species, and the similarity between sponges (Euclidean distance) are calculated according nine network centrality index (species-level descriptors): species degree, betweenness, closeness, Katz centrality, among-module connectivity (C_value), standardized within-module degree (Z_value), and nestedness contribution. We use Pearson’s correlation for the species-level descriptors.

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Sponge interactions records for the Northwest Tropical Atlantic coral reefs.

The information of the sponge-hosts and sponges-guests taxonomic classification. Each interaction record is associated with the following information: country, locality name, Spalding et al. (2007) EcoRegion, Geographical latitude and longitude, and a Bibliographic reference.

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Sponges distribution records according to GBIF and Perez-Botello & Simões (2022).

Each sponge record is associated with the following information: geographical latitude and longitude and with the information source of that record.

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Sponges functional morphological.

Sponges morphological description, classification and functional morphological standardization according to Schönberg (2021).

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Network Structural Index and Sponge accumulated area.

Each sponge species is associated with their taxonomic classification, the seven-centrality index, first Principal Component, sponge accumulated geographic area in square kilometers and sponges functional morphology.

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Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Antar Mijail Pérez-Botello conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Wesley Dáttilo conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Nuno Simões conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The data is available at Zenodo: Antar Mijail Pérez-Botello, Wesley Dattilo, & Nuno Simões. (2023). Geographic range size and species morphology determines the organization of sponge host-guest interaction networks across tropical coral reefs (Raw data) (3.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8171115.

Funding

This work was financed by grants to Nuno Simões by the Harte Research Institute, the Harte Charitable Foundation, CONABIO-NE018, CONACyTCB-2012-01-177293 and PAPIIT IV300123. This Project and Antar M Pérez-Botello was supported by the Unidad Multidisciplinaria de Docencia e Investigación—Sisal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autonomy de México (UMDI Sisal-FC-UNAM), and by CONACyT doctoral fellowship 2019-000037-02NACF through the PCB-FC-UNAM. There was no additional external funding received for this study. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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