Recent disturbances augment community shifts in coral assemblages in Moorea, French Polynesia

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Connectivity networks reveal the risks of crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks on the Great Barrier Reef (2014, background): “One of the most famous examples of an undesirable ‘pest’ is the crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus), or COTS, which feeds on coral and forms plagues that beset reefs in much of the Indo-Pacific (Brodie et al. 2005; Pratchett et al. 2011; Sweatman, Delean & Syms 2011; Timmers et al”
Comparative Effects of Different Disturbances in Coral Reef Habitats in Moorea, French Polynesia (2011, methodology): “To explore long-term changes in coral cover and community structure at Moorea, quantitative data were compiled from 15 studies conducted at Tiahura [16, 33, 49, 58, 62–70] and/ or Vaipahu [16, 62, 71, 72], located 2 kilometres apart on the north coast of Moorea [62].”