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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Eyes and negative phototaxis in juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster species complex [PDF]
Biology Open, 2019 As a corallivore, the crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS; Acanthaster species complex), has significant impacts on coral mortality and community structure on tropical reefs throughout its Indo-Pacific range.
Camilla Korsvig-Nielsen +3 more
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Multiomics analysis of the giant triton snail salivary gland, a crown-of-thorns starfish predator [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 The giant triton snail (Charonia tritonis) is one of the few natural predators of the adult Crown-of-Thorns starfish (COTS), a corallivore that has been damaging to many reefs in the Indo-Pacific.
U. Bose +5 more
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Settlement cue selectivity by larvae of the destructive crown-of-thorns starfish. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2023 Population irruptions of crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) cause extensive degradation of coral reefs, threatening the structure and function of these important ecosystems. For population irruptions to initiate and spread, large numbers of planktonic larvae have to successfully transition into their benthic life-history stage (i.e ...
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Induction of larval settlement in crown-of-thorns starfish is not mediated by conspecific cues. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 AbstractPopulation irruptions of crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS; Acanthaster spp.) remain a major cause of coral reef degradation throughout the Pacific and Indian Oceans and are inherently modulated by larval settlement and recruitment success. Gregarious larval settlement, as exhibited by many other ecologically important marine invertebrates, can ...
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The CSIRO Crown-of-Thorn Starfish Detection Dataset
CoRR, 2021 Crown-of-Thorn Starfish (COTS) outbreaks are a major cause of coral loss on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and substantial surveillance and control programs are underway in an attempt to manage COTS populations to ecologically sustainable levels. We release a large-scale, annotated underwater image dataset from a COTS outbreak area on the GBR, to ...
Jiajun Liu 0004 +19 more
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Culling corallivores improves short-term coral recovery under bleaching scenarios
Nature Communications, 2022 This study uses multispecies modelling to show that the management of a coral predator, the crown-of-thorns starfish, could help corals recover following bleaching events.
Jacob G. D. Rogers, Éva E. Plagányi
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Robotic detection and tracking of Crown-of-Thorns starfish [PDF]
2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015 (Uploaded by Plazi for the IPBES Invasive Alien Species Assessment) This paper presents a novel vision-based underwater robotic system for the identification and control of Crown- Of-Thorns starfish (COTS) in coral reef environments. COTS have been identified as one of the most significant threats to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Feras Dayoub +2 more
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Journal of Computer Sciences Institute, 2022 There is a great range of spectacular coral reefs in the ocean world. Unfortunately, they are in jeopardy, due to an overabundance of one specific starfish called the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish (or COTS).
Quoc Toan Nguyen
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