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Acanthaster and the Coral Reef: A Theoretical Perspective

Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Aug. 6–7, 1988

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1990

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  1. Roger Bradbury

    1. National Resource Information Centre, Canberra, Australia

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics (LNBM, volume 88)

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Table of contents (20 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N2-VI
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  2. Plenary address

    1. On Modelling

      • John L. Farrands
      Pages 1-5

  4. Local spatial models

    1. Dispersal of Neutrally-Buoyant Material near John Brewer Reef

      • Stephen L. Gay, John C. Andrews, Kerry P. Black
      Pages 95-119

    2. Reef-Scale Numerical Hydrodynamic Modelling Developed to Investigate Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Outbreaks

      • Kerry P. Black, Stephen L. Gay
      Pages 120-150

    3. A Numerical Scheme for Determining Trajectories in Particle Models

      • Kerry P. Black, Stephen L. Gay
      Pages 151-156

    4. Cellular Automata Models of Crown-of-Thorns Outbreaks

      • David Geoffrey Green
      Pages 157-168

    5. Crowns Crowding: An Individual Oriented Model of the Acanthaster Phenomenon

      • P. Hogeweg, B. Hesper
      Pages 169-188

    6. Test of a Model of Regulation of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish by Fish Predators

      • Rupert Ormond, Roger Bradbury, Scott Bainbridge, Katarina Fabricius, John Keesing, Lyndon de Vantier et al.
      Pages 189-207

    7. Effects of Predation on Acanthaster: Age-Structured Metapopulation Models

      • H. I. Mccallum
      Pages 208-219
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About this book

In August 1988. the Sixth International Coral Reef Symposium was held in Townsville resulting in an influx of most of the world's coral reef sCientists to the city. We seized this opportunity at the Australian Institute of Marine Science to run a small workshop immediately before the symposium on the outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish. Aeanthaster planei. We invited that small band of mathematicians who had been modelling the phenomenon, (and who may not have normally attended an international meeting so thoroughly dedicated to natural science) to meet with those SCientists who had been been actively working on the phenomenon in the field. John Casti notes in his delightful new book Alternate Realities (Wiley, 1989): 'If the natural role of the experimenter is to generate new observables by which we know the processes of Nature, and the natural role of the mathematician is to generate new formal structures by which we can represent these processes. then the system SCientist finds his niche by serving as a broker between the two. ' I think our book shows the fruits of that brokerage through the wide range of models explored within its pages. the high level of collaboration and interaction across disciplines evident in the individual papers, and in the emerging synthesis that reflects a far deeper understanding of this complex phenomenon than was possible even a few years ago.

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Resource Information Centre, Canberra, Australia

    Roger Bradbury

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Acanthaster and the Coral Reef: A Theoretical Perspective

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Aug. 6–7, 1988

  • Editors: Roger Bradbury

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46726-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-53501-0Published: 12 February 1991

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-46726-4Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0341-633X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-9981

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 341

  • Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Mathematical and Computational Biology

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