[Coral-List] Invasive crown of thorns
Brodie, Jon
jon.brodie at jcu.edu.au
Sun Mar 9 20:38:37 EDT 2014
Hi David
That's a good suggestion from John. There has been a huge amount of work on this topic over the last 50 years. Note the word 'invasions' is not really correct. Crown of thorns are naturally present on Indo-Pacific reefs (not Caribbean) and are not introduced exotics (like say lion fish in the Caribbean). However who knows - they may be invasive in the Caribbean one day - let's hope not.
Cheers
Jon
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Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Invasive crown of thorns
Try Fabricius et al, Coral Reefs, 2010 and references therein for a start.
John
david arnold wrote:
>Excuse a query about something probably discussed often on this site.
>Is there evidence that human activity has any relationship to crown of
>thorns invasions? Feel free to email me directly.
>David Arnold
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