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Joseph R Pawlik

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Joe Pawlik has worked primarily in the area of marine chemical ecology, most recently on the chemical defenses of sponges on Caribbean coral reefs. He received his BS in 1982 from the University of Minnesota, and his PhD in 1988 from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. After postdoctoral fellowships at Friday Harbor Labs and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he joined the faculty at UNC Wilmington in 1991, where he teaches Invertebrate Zoology and directs a research program involving undergraduate, MS and PhD students.

Ecology Marine Biology

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University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Work details

Distinguished Professor of Marine Biology

UNCW

January 1991

Department of Biology and Marine Biology

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January 31, 2018

A review of bottom-up vs. top-down control of sponges on Caribbean fore-reefs: what’s old, what’s new, and future directions

18 citations

920 downloads

4,002 views

Joseph R. Pawlik, Tse-Lynn Loh, Steven E. McMurray

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4343 PubMed 29404224

April 28, 2015

Indirect effects of overfishing on Caribbean reefs: sponges overgrow reef-building corals

57 citations

2,295 downloads

14,441 views

Tse-Lynn Loh, Steven E. McMurray, Timothy P. Henkel, Jan Vicente, Joseph R. Pawlik

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.901 PubMed 25945305

February 14, 2015 - Version: 1

Indirect effects of overfishing on Caribbean reefs: Sponges overgrow reef-building corals

566 downloads

1,718 views

Tse-Lynn Loh, Steven E McMurray, Timothy P Henkel, Jan Vicente, Joseph R Pawlik

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.836v1

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June 25, 2020

A high proportion of red snapper sold in North Carolina is mislabeled

171 downloads

697 views

Erin T. Spencer, Emilie Richards, Blaire Steinwand, Juliette Clemons, Jessica Dahringer, Priya Desai, Morgan Fisher, Sloane Fussell, Olivia Gorman, Diamond Jones, Amanda Le, Kayla Long, Cammie McMahan, Caitlin Moscarito, Catherine Pelay, Erica Price, Anna Smith, Allison VanSant, John F. Bruno

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9218 PubMed 32617188

June 2, 2020

Limpet disturbance effects on barnacle recruitment are related to recruitment intensity but not recruit size

70 downloads

342 views

Julius A. Ellrich, Takefumi Yorisue, Kyosuke Momota

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9190 PubMed 32547863

April 22, 2020

Population structure and microbial community diversity of two common tetillid sponges in a tropical reef lagoon

171 downloads

1,139 views

Jake Ivan P. Baquiran, Michael Angelou L. Nada, Niño Posadas, Dana P. Manogan, Patrick C. Cabaitan, Cecilia Conaco

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9017 PubMed 32351788

April 7, 2020

Rock sponges (lithistid Demospongiae) of the Northeast Atlantic seamounts, with description of ten new species

301 downloads

1,002 views

Francisca C. Carvalho, Paco Cárdenas, Pilar Ríos, Javier Cristobo, Hans Tore Rapp, Joana R. Xavier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8703 PubMed 32292645

January 23, 2020

Life history traits and reproductive performance of the caridean shrimp Lysmata boggessi, a heavily traded invertebrate in the marine aquarium industry

171 downloads

437 views

Michael D. Dickson, Donald C. Behringer, J. Antonio Baeza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8231 PubMed 32002320

January 22, 2020

Florida manatees Trichechus manatus latirostris actively consume the sponge Chondrilla caribensis

125 downloads

758 views

William Fitt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8443 PubMed 32002336

May 23, 2019

Boat anchoring contributes substantially to coral reef degradation in the British Virgin Islands

2 citations

374 downloads

1,278 views

Rebecca L. Flynn, Graham E. Forrester

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7010 PubMed 31198640

April 2, 2019

Spatial variation in allometric growth of invasive lionfish has management implications

1 citation

289 downloads

1,174 views

Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez, Sean Fitzgerald

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6667 PubMed 30972253

February 8, 2019

Positive association between epiphytes and competitiveness of the brown algal genus Lobophora against corals

1 citation

362 downloads

904 views

Andreas Eich, Amanda K. Ford, Maggy M. Nugues, Ryan S. McAndrews, Christian Wild, Sebastian C.A. Ferse

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6380 PubMed 30775176

February 5, 2019

Molecular and morphological congruence of three new cryptic Neopetrosia spp. in the Caribbean

537 downloads

1,672 views

Jan Vicente, Jaime Andrés Ríos, Sven Zea, Robert J. Toonen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6371 PubMed 30746308

January 4, 2019

Spiculous skeleton formation in the freshwater sponge Ephydatia fluviatilis under hypergravity conditions

1 citation

267 downloads

1,438 views

Martijn C. Bart, Sebastiaan J. de Vet, Didier M. de Bakker, Brittany E. Alexander, Dick van Oevelen, E. Emiel van Loon, Jack J.W.A. van Loon, Jasper M. de Goeij

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6055 PubMed 30631642

August 14, 2018

Spatio–temporal variation in stable isotope signatures (δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N) of sponges on the Saba Bank

2 citations

379 downloads

1,409 views

Fleur C. Van Duyl, Benjamin Mueller, Erik H. Meesters

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5460 PubMed 30128208

June 13, 2018

Long-term experimental in situ farming of Crambe crambe (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida)

2 citations

279 downloads

1,419 views

Andrea Padiglia, Fabio D. Ledda, Bachisio M. Padedda, Roberto Pronzato, Renata Manconi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4964 PubMed 29915695

June 8, 2018

Archaeal and bacterial diversity and community composition from 18 phylogenetically divergent sponge species in Vietnam

4 citations

439 downloads

2,444 views

Ton That Huu Dat, Georg Steinert, Nguyen Thi Kim Cuc, Hauke Smidt, Detmer Sipkema

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4970 PubMed 29900079

June 7, 2018

9 citations

298 downloads

3,561 views

César A. Cárdenas, Marcelo González-Aravena, Alejandro Font, Jon T. Hestetun, Eduardo Hajdu, Nicole Trefault, Maja Malmberg, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4935 PubMed 29892508

May 8, 2018

Sponge community of the western Black Sea shallow water caves: diversity and spatial distribution

1 citation

550 downloads

2,494 views

Alexander Ereskovsky, Oleg A. Kovtun, Konstantin K. Pronin, Apostol Apostolov, Dirk Erpenbeck, Viatcheslav Ivanenko

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4596 PubMed 29761036

November 16, 2017

Sediment tolerance mechanisms identified in sponges using advanced imaging techniques

11 citations

262 downloads

1,413 views

Brian W. Strehlow, Mari-Carmen Pineda, Alan Duckworth, Gary A. Kendrick, Michael Renton, Muhammad Azmi Abdul Wahab, Nicole S. Webster, Peta L. Clode

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3904 PubMed 29158962

August 25, 2017

Comparison of chemical compounds associated with sclerites from healthy and diseased sea fan corals (Gorgonia ventalina)

1 citation

369 downloads

1,572 views

Carlos Toledo-Hernández, Claudia P. Ruiz-Diaz, Liz M. Díaz-Vázquez, Vanessa Santiago-Cárdenas, Derick N. Rosario-Berrios, Derek M. García-Almedina, Loretta M. Roberson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3677 PubMed 28852592

August 15, 2017

Aura-biomes are present in the water layer above coral reef benthic macro-organisms

6 citations

476 downloads

1,875 views

Kevin Walsh, J. Matthew Haggerty, Michael P. Doane, John J. Hansen, Megan M. Morris, Ana Paula B. Moreira, Louisi de Oliveira, Luciana Leomil, Gizele D. Garcia, Fabiano Thompson, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3666 PubMed 28828261

June 12, 2017

DOC concentrations across a depth-dependent light gradient on a Caribbean coral reef

1 citation

306 downloads

1,849 views

Benjamin Mueller, Erik H. Meesters, Fleur C. van Duyl

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3456 PubMed 28626617

May 25, 2017

Invasive lionfish had no measurable effect on prey fish community structure across the Belizean Barrier Reef

16 citations

836 downloads