Geological approaches to coral reef ecology / Richard B. Aronson, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The changing fate of coral reefs : lessons from the deep past / Rachel Wood -- Taphonomy : detecting critical events in fossil reef-coral assemblages / Benjamin J. Greenstein -- Biotic turnover events on coral reefs : a probabilistic approach / Richard B. Aronson and Stephen P. Ellner -- Inferring past outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns seastar from scar patterns on coral heads / Lyndon M. DeVantier and Terence J. Done -- Influence of terrigenous runoff on offshore coral reefs : an example from the Flower Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico / Kenneth J.P. Deslarzes and Alexis Lugo-Fernández -- Fidelity of annual growth in Montastraea faveolata and the recentness of coral bleaching in Florida / Robert B. Halley and J. Harold Hudson -- Demise, regeneration, and survival of some western Atlantic reefs during the Holocene Transgression / Ian G. Macintyre -- Broad-scale patterns in Pleistocene coral reef communities from the Caribbean : implications for ecology and management / John M. Pandolfi and Jeremy B.C. Jackson -- Ecological shifts along the Florida reef tract : the past as a key to the future / William F. Precht and Steven L. Miller -- Extreme climatic events and coral reefs : how much short-term threat from global change? / Bernhard Riegl -- Responses of coral reefs to El Niño-Southern Oscillation sea-warming events / Gerard M. Wellington and Peter W. Glynn -- Constraints on predicting coral reef response to climate change / Joan A. Kleypas.