Geological Approaches to Coral Reef Ecology

Abstract

Dedication Preface Part I Coral Reefs in Context: The Changing Fate of Coral Reefs: Lessons from the Deep Past.- Part II Detecting Critical Events: Taphonomy: Detecting Critical Events in Fossil Reef-Coral Assemblages.- Species Turnover on Coral Reefs: A Probabilistic Approach.- Past Seastar Outbreaks Inferred from Scar Patterns on Reef-Coral Heads.- Influence of Terrigenous Runoff on Offshore Reefs: An Example from the Flower Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico.- Fidelity of Annual Growth in Montastraea faveolata and the Recentness of Coral Bleaching in Florida.- Part III Patterns of Reef Development and Their Implications: Demise, Regeneration, and Survival of Some Western Atlantic Reefs During the Holocene Transgression.- Broad-Scale Patterns in Pleistocene Coral Reef Communities: Implications for Ecology and Management.- Ecological Shifts Along the Florida Reef Tract: The Past is the Key to the Future.- Part IV Coral Reefs and Global Change: Extreme Climatic Events and Coral Reefs: How Much Short-Term Threat from Global Change?- Responses of Coral Reefs to El Nino-Southern Oscillation Sea-Warming Events.- Constraints on Predicting Coral Reef Response to Global Change.