The Diet of the Baby Predator Starfish
Juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish will eat almost anything to survive. New research from Dione Deaker, a PhD student at the University of Sydney and her adviser Professor Maria Byrne, along with colleagues at the National Marine Science Centre, Coffs Harbour shows that the diet flexibility of the juvenile complicates our ability to age this species and, therefore, our ability to predict devastating outbreaks of adults on reefs. The field work was conducted at the University of Sydney's research station on One Tree Island, Great Barrier Reef.
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