Are coral reefs victims of their own past success? (3 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Are coral reefs victims of their own past success? (3 of 3)

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Staghorn corals are the preferred prey of predatory Crown of Thorn starfish. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 22, 2016, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by W. Renema at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, Netherlands, and colleagues was titled, "Are coral reefs victims of their own past success?"

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Carden C. Wallace

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