Assessing Different Causes of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Outbreaks and Appropriate Responses for Management on the Great Barrier Reef

The crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci (COTS) has contributed greatly to declines in coral cover on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and remains one of the major acute disturbances on Indo-Pacific coral reefs. Despite uncertainty about the underlying causes of outbreaks and the management re...

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Autores principales: Babcock, Russell C., Dambacher, Jeffrey M., Morello, Elisabetta B., Plagányi, Éva E., Hayes, Keith R., Sweatman, Hugh P. A., Pratchett, Morgan S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5201292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28036360
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169048

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5201292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28036360
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169048

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