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From: Relative efficacy of three approaches to mitigate Crown-of-Thorns Starfish outbreaks on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

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Site locations for manual control of the Pacific Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (COTS), Acanthaster cf. solaris. Manual control of COTS took place at a total of 52 sites at 21 reefs in three different types of spatial zoning in the Cairns sector of the Great Barrier Reef from July 2013 to December 2017 (light blue = take zones, dark blue = limited take, green = no take). Data on COTS abundance from the COTS control program, and coral cover from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s Reef Health Impact Surveys, were collected at each of the 52 sites during this period. Insert shows location of study area in Australia. The spatial layers to create the map were obtained from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY) (https://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/about-us/resources-and-publications/spatial-data-information-services).

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