Size and diet of newly settled crown-of-thorns starfish from Australia's Great Barrier Reef

This dataset provides:

  • Size (diameter in mm)
  • Diet (coralline algae versus scleractinian coral)
  • Estimated ages (as in 0 days old on 10th December 2014)
  • Date of collection (in day-month-year)
  • Reef of collection (Reef name, ID)
  • Site of collection (Latitude/Longitude)

of newly settled crown-of-thorns starfish (0+ starfish, Acanthaster cf. solaris) that were sampled between 7 May and 15 December 2015 from 64 reefs and 111 sites of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

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    Data Publication title Size and diet of newly settled crown-of-thorns starfish from Australia's Great Barrier Reef
  • Description

    This dataset provides:

    • Size (diameter in mm)
    • Diet (coralline algae versus scleractinian coral)
    • Estimated ages (as in 0 days old on 10th December 2014)
    • Date of collection (in day-month-year)
    • Reef of collection (Reef name, ID)
    • Site of collection (Latitude/Longitude)

    of newly settled crown-of-thorns starfish (0+ starfish, Acanthaster cf. solaris) that were sampled between 7 May and 15 December 2015 from 64 reefs and 111 sites of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

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      This dataset consists of a .csv data file and the code, saved in both .rmd (R Markdown) and .html format.

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  • Keywords
    • Acanthaster
    • 0+ starfish
    • post-settlement growth
    • ontogenetic diet shift
    • ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
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  • Start Date 2015/05/07
  • End Date 2015/12/15
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  • Locations
    • Great Barrier Reef, Australia
  • Related publications
      Name Wilmes, Jennifer C., Hoey, Andrew S., and Pratchett, Morgan S. (2020) Contrasting size and fate of juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish linked to ontogenetic diet shifts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences, 287 (1931). 20201052.
    • URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1052
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    Citation Wilmes, Jennifer; Shultz, Daniel (2019): Size and diet of newly settled crown-of-thorns starfish from Australia's Great Barrier Reef. James Cook University. https://doi.org/10.25903/5da3d2eb955fb