Media for project "NERP TE Project 5.2 - Combined water quality-climate effects on coral and other reef organisms (AIMS)"

This page contains all media associated with this project. For more information about the project and its datasets please go to the project metadata record https://eatlas.org.au/data/uuid/f870ce32-eb6e-45bf-9283-857e35da1645.

Images

AIMS SEASIM Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (COTS) larvae experiment

Aquarium setup for an experiment at AIMS

Corals juveniles settled on crustose coralline algae

Field incubation experiment on green algae

Larval Cycle of Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish (COTS)

Transplantation on the field of an experiment on green algae

Articles

Culturing crown-of-thorns larvae in the AIMS SeaSim

Published on

15 August 2014

<p>The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is currently experiencing a 4th wave of crown-of-thorns seastar (Acanthaster planci) infestations since the 1960’s. The seastars are spreading rapidly with reefs from Lizard Island to Cairns suffering massive coral mortality. The race is on again to learn more about the biology of COTS and fund some smart science to develop strategies that will minimise the coral loss caused by the voracious coral predator.</p>