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Data presented on gamete concentrations (number of oocytes or sperm released per gram of gonad materrial, following induced spawning on samples of gonads) for Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish collectedd on the Great Barrier Reef during the population irruption that started in ~2010. Also presented are total mass of gonads and corresponding total body mass of larger set of starfish, to facilitate estimated of reproductive investment or gonad index (GI)
Dataset consists of 3 spreadsheets (saved in both MS Excel (.xlsx) and Open Document (.ods) formats):
- GI COTS GBR 2014-19 - Gonad index (total mass of gonads/ total body mass) for Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish
- Oocyte conc COTS GBR 2015 - Ocyte concentrations measured from samples taken from 3 different arms for each of 32 females, collected at Lizard Island
- Sperm conc COTS GBR 2015 - Sperm concentrations measured from samples taken from 3 different arms for each of 11 males, collected at Lizard Island
Created: 2020-05-08
Data time period: 31 10 2014 to 14 12 2019
Spatial Coverage And Location
text: Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
text: 14.705660° S, 145.379154° E
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- Local : a4cb6b9d8e39b67f3c866fd42c0f51e3
- Local : https://research.jcu.edu.au/data/published/51e357a6ecb097e90902f4d8f502d996
- DOI : 10.25903/5eb4ec2e97772