A culling programme has succeeded in protecting key areas of the Great Barrier Reef from voracious coral-eating starfish.

In fact, the deteriorating coral gives the juvenile starfish a “rubble habitat,” that allows their numbers to build over time, according to Byrne. When the reef finally begins to regrow ...

With too few tritons on the reef, crown-of-thorns starfish populations can explode, jeopardizing the living coral that makes up reefs. Covered with long, venomous spikes, the crown-of-thorns ...

Crown-of-thorns starfish populations are again flourishing along the Great Barrier Reef. Symon Dworjanyn is a professor of marine ecology at Southern Cross university. "Crown-of-thorns starfish ...

which has devastated part of the Great Barrier Reef. Benjamin Mos, a marine scientist at the University of Queensland, said crowns-of-thorns starfish had an enormous appetite for hard coral and ...

But the reef is under threat from a type of starfish that eats the coral which makes up the giant eco-system. It is known as the crown-of-thorns starfish. The Australian Institute of Marine ...

wide starfish is an even greater menace to some of its tiny aquatic neighbors. It likes nothing better than to feed on the living coral reefs where it makes its home. Lately its appetite has ...

Oct. 14, 2024 — A new study has shown that selective breeding can lead to a modest rise in coral heat tolerance. The study documents the world s first effort to selectively breed adult corals ...

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Why monitor reef fish? We're glad you asked!Reef fish are vital to the health of coral reefs. Over 1,500 fish species call the Great Barrier Reef ...

Coral reefs are often described as the rainforests ... Home to over 1,600 types of animals including fish, sponges, rays, starfish, mollusks, dolphins, whales, sharks, turtles, birds and more ...