Crown-of-thorns starfish outbreak at oceanic Dongsha Atoll in the northern South China Sea
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DOI: 10.1007/s12526-019-01021-2
Abstract: The corallivorous Crown-of-Thorns starfish (COTS), Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758), has been reported to undergo outbreaks that can decimate scleractinian coral assemblages (e.g. Waheed and Hoeksema 2014; Waheed et al. 2015). In the South China Sea… read more here.
Keywords: south china; thorns starfish; atoll; dongsha atoll ... See more keywords