Identification of Crown of Thorns Starfish (COTS) using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and attention model. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Coral reefs play important roles in the marine ecosystem, from providing shelter to aquatic lives to being a source of income to others. However, they are in danger from outbreaks of species like the Crown of Thorns Starfish (COTS) and the widespread ...
Maleika Heenaye-Mamode Khan +3 more
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Significant Changes in Bacterial Communities Associated with Pocillopora Corals Ingestion by Crown-of-Thorns Starfish: An Important Factor Affecting the Coral’s Health [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2022 Coral ingestion by crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) is an important cause of coral reef degradation, although the impacts of COTS feeding on coral-associated microbial communities are not well understood.
Zhenjun Qin +7 more
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Capacity for regeneration in crown of thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci [PDF]
Coral Reefs, 2013 [Extract] Population outbreaks of the coral-feeding crown of thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci (Fig. 1a), are, with storms, the most significant disturbance on coral reefs in the western Pacific (e.g., De'ath et al. 2012). Controlling outbreaks of A. planci is therefore increasingly viewed as a key strategy in reducing coral loss and reef degradation.
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Interactive Effects of Endogenous and Exogenous Nutrition on Larval Development for Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish [PDF]
Diversity, 2017 Outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish are often attributed to step-changes in larval survivorship following anomalous increases in nutrients and food availability.
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Hemolytic activity of venom from crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci spines [PDF]
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2013 Background : The crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci is a venomous species from Taiwan whose venom provokes strong hemolytic activity. To understand the hemolytic properties of A. planci venom, samples were collected from A.
Chi-Chiu Lee +3 more
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Microsatellites Reveal Genetic Homogeneity among Outbreak Populations of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (Acanthaster cf. solaris) on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef [PDF]
Diversity, 2017 Specific patterns in the initiation and spread of reef-wide outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish are important, both to understand potential causes (or triggers) of outbreaks and to develop more effective and highly targeted management and containment ...
Hugo B. Harrison +4 more
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Crown-of-thorns starfish have true image forming vision. [PDF]
Front Zool, 2016 Photoreceptors have evolved numerous times giving organisms the ability to detect light and respond to specific visual stimuli. Studies into the visual abilities of the Asteroidea (Echinodermata) have recently shown that species within this class have a more developed visual sense than previously thought and it has been demonstrated that starfish use ...
Petie R, Garm A, Hall MR.
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A family of crown-of-thorns starfish spine-secreted proteins modify adult conspecific behavior [PDF]
iScienceSummary: With growing interest in utilizing semiochemicals to control pest species, recent investigations have begun to consider semiochemicals to control outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish (CoTS; Acanthaster cf.
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Rates of Spawning and Mortality Using Contrasting Methods for Culling Pacific Crown-of-Thorns Starfish, Acanthaster cf. solaris [PDF]
BiologyTimely, concerted, and persistent culling (or manual removal) is required to effectively manage population irruptions of crown-of-thorns starfish (CoTS; Acanthaster spp.).
Morgan S. Pratchett +6 more
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Body size and substrate type modulate movement by the western Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster solaris. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The movement capacity of the crown-of-thorns starfishes (Acanthaster spp.) is a primary determinant of both their distribution and impact on coral assemblages.
Morgan S Pratchett +8 more
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