Culling corallivores improves short-term coral recovery under bleaching scenarios

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. They show that management was most effective when heat stress severity for corals was low to moderate, when corals had lower hea...

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Main Authors: Jacob G. D. Rogers, Éva E. Plagányi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30213-x