Acanthaster and the Coral Reef

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.- Rapporteurs' report.- The Acanthaster Phenomenon: A Modelling Approach Rapporteurs' Report.