Chapter 1 The Changing Fate of Coral Reefs: Lessons from the Deep Past

Chapter 2 Taphonomy: Detecting Critical Events in Fossil Reef-Coral Assemblages

Chapter 3 Biotic Turnover Events on Coral Reefs: A Probabilistic Approach

Chapter 4 Inferring Past Outbreaks of the Crown-of-Thorns Seastar from Scar Patterns on Coral Heads

Chapter 5 Influence of Terrigenous Runoff on Offshore Coral Reefs: An Example from the Flower Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico

Chapter 6 Geological Approaches to Coral Reef Ecology

Chapter 7 Demise, Regeneration, and Survival of Some Western Atlantic Reefs During the Holocene Transgression

Chapter 8 Broad-Scale Patterns in Pleistocene Coral Reef Communities from the Caribbean: Implications for Ecology and Management

Chapter 9 Ecological Shifts along the Florida Reef Tract: The Past as a Key to the Future

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

Chapter 11 Responses of Coral Reefs to El Niñno-Southern Oscillation Sea-Warming Events