Geological Approaches to Coral Reef Ecology

Part I. Coral Reefs in Context

1. The Changing Fate of Coral Reefs: Lessons from the Deep Past
Rachel Wood

Part II. Detecting Critical Events

2. Taphonomy: Detecting Critical Events in Fossil Reef-Coral Assemblages
Benjamin J. Greenstein

3. Biotic Turnover Events on Coral Reefs: A Probabilistic Approach
Richard B. Aronson, Stephen P. Ellner

4. Inferring Past Outbreaks of the Crown-of-Thorns Seastar from Scar Patterns on Coral Heads
Lyndon M. DeVantier, Terence J. Done

5. Influence of Terrigenous Runoff on Offshore Coral Reefs: An Example from the Flower Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico
Kenneth J. P. Deslarzes, Alexis Lugo-Fernández

6. Fidelity of Annual Growth in Montastraea faveolata and the Recentness of Coral Bleaching in Florida
Robert B. Halley, J. Harold Hudson

Part III. Patterns of Reef Development and Their Implications

7. Demise, Regeneration, and Survival of Some Western Atlantic Reefs During the Holocene Transgression
Ian G. Macintyre

8. Broad-Scale Patterns in Pleistocene Coral Reef Communities from the Caribbean: Implications for Ecology and Management
John M. Pandolfi, Jeremy B. C. Jackson

9. Ecological Shifts along the Florida Reef Tract: The Past as a Key to the Future
William F. Precht, Steven L. Miller

Part IV. Coral Reefs and Global Change

10. Extreme Climatic Events and Coral Reefs: How Much Short-Term Threat from Global Change?
Bernhard Riegl

11. Responses of Coral Reefs to El Niñno-Southern Oscillation Sea-Warming Events
Gerard M. Wellington, Peter W. Glynn

12. Constraints on Predicting Coral Reef Response to Climate Change
Joan A. Kleypas

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