Crown-of-Thorns Starfish in Chuuk, Micronesia (IMAGE)

University of Guam

Crown-of-Thorns Starfish in Chuuk, Micronesia

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Lorenzo Stephan, a coral reef monitoring team member in Chuuk, holds one of many coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish found during the El Niño-Southern Oscillation event of 2015-2017. A recently published study out of the University of Guam Marine Laboratory found a predictable pattern between starfish invasions and the interaction of El Niño and Pacific Decadal Oscillation climate events.

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