ArticleScientific reports2015
Outbreak of coral-eating Crown-of-Thorns creates continuous cloud of larvae over 320 km of the Great Barrier Reef.
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- eDNA confirms lower trophic interactions help to modulate population outbreaks of the notorious crown-of-thorns sea star.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Crown of thorns starfish life-history traits contribute to outbreaks, a continuing concern for coral reefs.Emerging topics in life sciences · 2022Article
- Large-scale interventions may delay decline of the Great Barrier Reef.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Homing behaviour by destructive crown-of-thorns starfish is triggered by local availability of coral prey.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Contrasting size and fate of juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish linked to ontogenetic diet shifts.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Effects of larvae density and food concentration on Crown-of-Thorns seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris) development in an automated flow-through system.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Ephemeral and Localized Outbreaks of the Coral PredatorZoological studies · 2018Article
- Bias associated with the detectability of the coral-eating pest crown-of-thorns seastar and implications for reef management.Royal Society open science · 2017Article
- Joint estimation of crown of thorns (Acanthaster planci) densities on the Great Barrier Reef.PeerJ · 2016Article
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Abstract
Coral reefs are in decline worldwide due to a combination of local and global causes. Over 40% of the recent coral loss on Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR) has been attributed to outbreaks of the coral-eating Crown-of-Thorns Seastar (CoTS). Testing of the hypotheses explaining these outbreaks is hampered by an inability to investigate the spatio-temporal distribution of larvae because they resemble other planktotrophic echinoderm larvae. We developed a genetic marker and tested it on 48 plankton samples collected during the 2014 spawning season in the northern GBR, and verified the method by PCR amplification of single larva. Surprisingly, most samples collected contained CoTS larvae. Larvae were detected 100 km south of current outbreaks of adult seastars, highlighting the potential for rapid expansion of the outbreak. A minimum estimate suggested that larvae numbers in the outbreak area (>10(10)) are about 4 orders of magnitude higher than adults (~10(6)) in the same area, implying that attempts to halt outbreaks by removing adults may be futile.
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