Brief description
In situ time-lapse photography was used to characterise movement and feeding preferences of the Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster cf. solaris) in the northern and southern Great Barrier Reef in 2015.This record describes the data accompanying the publication (in press): Homing behaviour by destructive crown-of-thorns starfish is triggered by local availability of coral prey.
Data files are:
1) CoTS movement and behavioural observations
2) CoTS individual movement tracks (per image) from time-lapse photography
3) feeding electivity on coral species by CoTS from time-lapse photography
Lineage
See methodology described in:Ling, S.D., Cowan, Z-L., Boada, J., Flukes, E.B., Pratchett, M.S. (date TBA). Homing behaviour by destructive crown-of-thorns starfish is triggered by local availability of coral prey. Proc. R. Soc. B. in press
Created: 2020-09-28
Data time period: 2015-05-01 to 2015-06-30
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text: northlimit=-21.55517578125; southlimit=-22.32421875; westlimit=152.20458984375003; eastLimit=152.99560546875
Subjects
AGRICULTURE |
ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR |
ANIMAL SCIENCE |
ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES |
Acanthaster planci |
BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION |
Biological Sciences |
BIOSPHERE |
Crown-of-thorns starfish (CoTS) |
DIURNAL MOVEMENTS |
EARTH SCIENCE |
EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE ECOSYSTEMS | REEF | CORAL REEF |
ECHINODERMS |
ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS |
Ecology |
Environmental Science and Management |
Environmental Sciences |
Environmental Monitoring |
Marine and Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) |
SEA STARS |
SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS |
USE/FEEDING HABITATS |
behaviour |
biota |
coral reefs |
movement |
predation |
random walk model |
time-lapse photography |
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Other Information
(DATA ACCESS - CoTS movement summaries [CSV direct download])
(DATA ACCESS - CoTS individual movement tracks (per image) from time-lapse photography [CSV direct download])
(DATA ACCESS - feeding electivity on coral species by CoTS from time-lapse photography [CSV direct download])
Identifiers
- global : 27ef761e-cce8-4abc-ae71-b069fdbf5592