Model to manage and reduce crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 512, Issue , 2014, Pages 167-183

  Morello, Elisabetta B ^a   Plagányi, Éva E ^a   Babcock, Russell C ^a   Sweatman, Hugh ^b   Hillary, Richard ^a   Punt, André E ^a,c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Acanthaster planci; Coral; COTS; Great Barrier Reef; Models of intermediate complexity; Predation; Trophodynamics

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CORAL; DATA SET; ECHINODERM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION OUTBREAK; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; QUEENSLAND;

ACANTHASTER PLANCI; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84907957996     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10858     Document Type: Article

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