[HTML][HTML] Protecting Great Barrier Reef resilience through effective management of crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks

SA Matthews, DH Williamson, R Beeden, MJ Emslie… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Resilience-based management is essential to protect ecosystems in the Anthropocene.
Unlike large-scale climate threats to Great Barrier Reef (GBR) corals, outbreaks of coral …

Control efforts of crown‐of‐thorns starfish outbreaks to limit future coral decline across the Great Barrier Reef

C Castro‐Sanguino, YM Bozec, SA Condie… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Crown‐of‐thorns starfish (CoTS) naturally occur on coral reefs throughout the Indo‐Pacific
region. On Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR), outbreaks of CoTS populations are …

Suppressing the next crown-of-thorns outbreak on the Great Barrier Reef

RC Babcock, ÉE Plagányi, SA Condie, DA Westcott… - Coral Reefs, 2020 - Springer
Crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) outbreaks are a globally significant driver of coral mortality
in the Indo-Pacific and work synergistically with other disturbances. We argue that our …

[HTML][HTML] Relative efficacy of three approaches to mitigate Crown-of-Thorns Starfish outbreaks on Australia's Great Barrier Reef

DA Westcott, CS Fletcher, FJ Kroon, RC Babcock… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Population outbreaks of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (COTS; Acanthaster spp.) are a major
contributor to loss of hard coral throughout the Indo-Pacific. On Australia's Great Barrier Reef …

[HTML][HTML] Preparing for and managing crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks on reefs under threat from interacting anthropogenic stressors

R Milne, M Anand, CT Bauch - Ecological Modelling, 2023 - Elsevier
Crown-of-thorns starfish (CoTS) outbreaks rank among the greatest threats to coral
throughout the Indo-Pacific. In the future, reefs already stressed by CoTS will be further …

[HTML][HTML] Fish predators control outbreaks of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish

FJ Kroon, DR Barneche, MJ Emslie - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Outbreaks of corallivorous Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (CoTS, Acanthaster spp.) have caused
persistent and widespread loss of coral cover across Indo-Pacific coral reefs. The potential …

Larval connectivity and water quality explain spatial distribution of crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks across the Great Barrier Reef

SA Matthews, C Mellin, MS Pratchett - Advances in Marine Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Outbreaks of the coral eating crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS; Acanthasts cf. solaris) occur in
cyclical waves along the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), contributing significantly to the decline in …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing different causes of crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks and appropriate responses for management on the Great Barrier Reef

RC Babcock, JM Dambacher, EB Morello, ÉE Plagányi… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
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 …

[图书][B] Crown-of-thorns starfish strategic management framework

GBRMP Authority - 2020 - elibrary.gbrmpa.gov.au
[Extract] This Crown-of-thorns starfish Strategic Management Framework has been
developed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority in partnership with the …

[HTML][HTML] Predator Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (Acanthaster planci) Outbreak, Mass Mortality of Corals, and Cascading Effects on Reef Fish and Benthic Communities

M Kayal, J Vercelloni, T Lison de Loma, P Bosserelle… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Outbreaks of the coral-killing seastar Acanthaster planci are intense disturbances that can
decimate coral reefs. These events consist of the emergence of large swarms of the …