Acanthaster and the Coral Reef: A Theoretical Perspective

In August 1988. the Sixth International Coral Reef Symposium was held in Townsville resulting in an influx of most of the world''s coral reef sCientists to the city. We seized this opportunity at the Australian Institute of Marine Science to run a small workshop immediately before the symposium on the outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish. Aeanthaster planei. We invited that small band of math...