There's No Place Like Home: Crown-of-Thorns Outbreaks in the Central Pacific Are Regionally Derived and Independent Events

• Molly A. Timmers ,

  * E-mail: molly.timmers@noaa.gov

  Affiliation Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries, Honolulu, Hawai'i, United States of America

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• Christopher E. Bird,

  Affiliation School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai'i, Kāne'ohe, Hawai'i, United States of America

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• Derek J. Skillings,

  Affiliations School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai'i, Kāne'ohe, Hawai'i, United States of America, Department of Zoology, University of Hawai'I, Honolulu, Hawai'i, United States of America

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• Peter E. Smouse,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Robert J. Toonen

  Affiliation School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai'i, Kāne'ohe, Hawai'i, United States of America

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