一只棘冠海星每年可以吃掉5到6平方米的珊瑚虫。
A single Acanthaster can consume five to six square meters of coral polyps per year.
棘冠海星很大，直径长达25到35厘米，有7到21条手臂，上面布满了刺。
The crown of thorns starfish is large, twenty-five to thirty-five centimeters in diameter, and has seven to twenty-one arms that are covered in spines.
很难理解捕食减少是如何导致在特定年份的同一时间内，几个地方的棘冠海星数量突然增加。
It is difficult to understand how reduced predation would lead to sudden increases in Acanthaster numbers in several places at the same time in specific years.
还有人认为，捕捞棘冠海星的脊椎动物和无脊椎动物捕食者可以降低死亡率、增加成年个体的数量。
Others have suggested that the harvesting of vertebrate and invertebrate predators of Acanthaster could have reduced mortality and caused increased abundance of adults.
其他对于大堡礁及其生态系统的环境压力来自径流的水质问题，伴随着大规模珊瑚白化的气候变化以及棘冠海星的周期性爆发现象。
Other environmental pressures to the reef and its ecosystem include water quality from runoff, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, and cyclic outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish.
棘冠星鱼会捕食珊瑚虫，大量的海星会摧毁珊瑚。
The crown-of-thorns starfish preys on coral and large outbreaks of these starfish can devastate reefs.
棘冠星鱼会捕食珊瑚虫，大量的海星会摧毁珊瑚。
The crown-of-thorns starfish preys on coral and large outbreaks of these starfish can devastate reefs.
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