Title | Acanthaster and the Coral Reef: A Theoretical Perspective [electronic resource] : Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Aug. 6-7, 1988 / edited by Roger Bradbury |
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Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1990 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46726-4 |
Descript | VI, 341 p. 54 illus. online resource |
Plenary address -- On modelling -- Global spatial models -- Dispersal and control models of Acanthaster planci populations on the Great Barrier Reef -- Great Barrier Reef hydrodynamics, reef connectivity and Acanthaster population dynamics -- A diffusion-reaction-transport model for large-scale waves in crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks on the Great Barrier Reef -- Reef syntax: an exploratory data analysis of the Acanthaster phenomenon using strings and grammars -- Stochastic and spatial effects in predator-prey models of Acanthaster-coral interactions -- Local spatial models -- Dispersal of neutrally-buoyant material near John Brewer Reef -- Reef-scale numerical hydrodynamic modelling developed to investigate crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks -- A numerical scheme for determining trajectories in particle models -- Cellular automata models of crown-of-thorns outbreaks -- Crowns crowding: an individual oriented model of the Acanthaster phenomenon -- Test of a model of regulation of crown-of-thorns starfish by fish predators -- Effects of predation on Acanthaster: age-structured metapopulation models -- Nonspatial models -- Applied Volterra-Hamilton systems of Finsler type: increased species diversity as a non-chemical defense for coral against the crown-of-thorns -- Persistent and transient populations of the crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci -- What controls outbreaks? -- Transition matrix models, crown-of-thorns and corals -- The relevance of stochastic effects to the notion of Acanthaster planci as a near-optimal predator -- Nonlinear prediction of crown-of-thorns outbreaks on the Great Barrier Reef -- Rapporteursโ report -- The Acanthaster Phenomenon: A Modelling Approach Rapporteursโ Report