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During the late 1960's and 1970's, massive herds of poisonous crown-of-thorns starfish suddenly began to infest coral reef communities around the world, leaving in their wake devastation comparable to a burnt-out rainforest. In What is Natural?, Jan Sapp both examines this ecological catastrophe and captures the intense debate among scientists about what caused the crisis, and how it should be handled. The crown-of-thorns story takes readers on tropical expeditions around the world, and into both marine laboratories and government committees, where scientists rigorously search for answers to the...

Crown-of-thorns starfish. --- Coral reef ecology. --- Coral reef ecology --- Coral reefs and islands --- Reef ecology --- Acanthaster planci --- Acanthaster --- Research. --- Ecology --- Environmental Sciences and Forestry. Ecology --- Aquatic Ecology --- Marine Ecology.