Feeding Preferences of Acanthaster planci (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) under Controlled Conditions of Food Availability1

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Recent disturbances augment community shifts in coral assemblages in Moorea, French Polynesia (2011, result): “There was, however, significant loss of Acropora and Montipora, which is consistent with reported feeding preferences of A. planci (Keesing 1992; De’ath and Moran 1998; Pratchett 2001, 2007).”
Effects of climate-induced coral bleaching on coral-reef fishes - ecological and economic consequences (2008, background): “For example, at lizard island (northern GbR) most coral-feeding butterflyfishes feed predominantly on either Acropora hyacinthus or Pocillopora damicornis (Pratchett 2005), demonstrating significant selectivity for either or both these corals (Pratchett 2007a).”
Epidemiology of skeletal eroding band on the Great Barrier Reef and the role of injury in the initiation of this widespread coral disease (2008, background): “Pocilloporid and acroporid corals, which are the most susceptible coral families on the GBR (Willis et al. 2004), are also amongst the preferred prey of both the crown-of-thorns starWsh (A. planci) (De’ath and Moran 1998; Pratchett 2007) and Drupella snails (Cummings 1999) in the IndoPaciWc.”
Morphological traits can track coral reef responses to the Anthropocene (2019, background): “From a response perspective, high surface complexity has been linked to higher sedimentation resistance (Stafford-Smith & Ormond, 1992) and crown of thorns prey preference (Pratchett, 2007).”