Mortality rates of small juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci on the Great Barrier Reef: implications for population size and larval settlement thresholds for outbreaks

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We thank John Lucas, Peter Moran and the late Masashi Yamaguchi for their help with and encouragement of this work. We also thank Russ Babcock and 3 anonymous reviewers for critical review of the manuscript and Carina Cartwright for her assistance in the field and in the pain staking microscope work involved in this study. Funding for the original study was provided by the Crown of Thorns Starfish Research Committee of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, Australia.