Enhanced performance of juvenile crown of thorns starfish in a warm-high CO2 ocean exacerbates poor growth and survival of their coral prey

Declines in coral cover across the Indo - Pacific are associated with multiple stressors of global ocean change, and this is exacerbated by population outbreaks of the coral-eating crown of thorns starfish (COTS), Acanthaster spp. We investigated the growth and feeding responses of the corallivorous...

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