drupella in A Sentence

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    Drupella Reef Resilience.

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    Outbreaks of Drupella can cause significant mortality on coral reefs.

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    Ref Although Drupella outbreaks do occur, typically Drupella occur in lower densities.

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    For example, in western Australia and Japan, Drupella outbreaks have drastically reduced coral cover.

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    However, even at lower densities Drupella can still influence the structure of the reef.

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    Ref Drupella generally form clusters on dead branches of live coral colonies, deep in crevices, under corals, or on dead corals.

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    Ref In northwest Australia, Drupella caused extensive mortality, destroying 90% of corals in parts of the northern reef at Ningaloo Reef.

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    In addition to COTS, sea urchins, and Drupella, some fishes(such as butterflyfishes, parrotfish, puffers, triggerfish, filefish, wrasses, and damselfish) also consume live coral tissue.

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    Drupella eat live coral tissue by stripping the tissue from the coral skeleton and leaving white feeding scars that can quickly become covered by algae.

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    Drupella prefer to feed on fast-growing species with complex, branching growth forms such as Acropora and Pocillopora, ref but will feed on most corals in the absence of their preferred species.

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