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Aronson, R.B., Edmunds, P.J., Precht, W.F., Swanson, D.W. and Levitan D.R. 1994. Large-scale, long-term monitoring of Caribbean coral reefs: simple, quick, inexpensive techniques. Atoll. Res. Bull. 42: 1-19.

Aronson, R.B. and Precht, W.F. 2000. Herbivory and algal dynamics on the coral reef at Discovery Bay, Jamaica. Limonl. Oceanogr. 45(1):251-255.

Aronson, R.B. and Precht, W.F. 2000. White-Band Disease and the Changing Face of Caribbean Coral Reefs. Hydrobiologia 9:14.

Aronson, R.B. and Precht, W.F. 1997. Stasis, biological disturbance and community structure of a Holocene coral reef. Paleobiol 23: 326-346.

Aronson, R.B. and Precht, W.F. 1995. Landscape patterns of reef coral diversity: a test of the intermediate       disturbance hypothesis. Jour. of Exp. Mar. Biol. and Ecol. 192: 1-14.

Aronson, R.B., Precht, W.F. and Macintyre, I.G. 1998. Extrinsic control of species replacement on a Holocene reef in Belize: the role of coral disease. Coral Reefs 17:223-230.

Aronson, R.B., Precht, W.F., Macintyre, I.G., Murdoch, T.J.T. 2000. Coral bleach-out in Belize. Nature 405:36.

Bak, R.P.M. and Meesters, E.H. 1999. Population structure as a response of coral communities to global change. American Zoologist 39(1):56-65.

Bak, R.P.M. and Meesters, E.H. 1998. Coral population structure: the hidden information of colony size- frequency distributions. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. Vol. 162: 301-306.

Bak, R.M.P. and Nieuwland, G. 1995. Long-term change in coral communities along depth gradients over leeward reefs in the Netherlands Antilles. Bull. Mar. Sci. 56(2): 609-619.  

Bohnsack, J.A. and Bannerot,  S.P. 1986. A stationary visual census technique for quantitatively assessing community structure of coral reef fishes. NOAA Tech Rep NMFS 41: 1-15.  

Brown, B.E. 1997. Coral bleaching: causes and consequences. Coral Reefs 16(Suppl): S129-S138.  

Bruckner, A.W. and Bruckner, R.J. 1997. The persistence of black-band disease in Jamaica: impact on community structure. Proc. 8th Int. Coral Reef Sym. 1: 601-606.  

Buddemeier, R.W. 1992. Corals, climate and conservation. Proc 7th Int Coral Reef Symp, Guam. 1: 3-10.

Burke, C.D., McHenry, T.M., Bischoff, W.D. and Mazzullo S.J. 1998. Coral diversity and mode of growth of lateral expansion patch reefs at Mexico Rocks, northern Belize shelf, Central America. Carbon  Evapor 13: 32-42. 

Bythell, J.C., Gladfelter, E.H. and Bythell, M. 1993. Chronic and catastrophic natural mortality of three common Caribbean reef corals. Coral Reefs 12:143-152.   

CARICOMP. 1997. Studies on Caribbean coral bleaching, 1995-1996. Proc. Eighth. Intern. Coral Reef Symp. 1:673-678.                       

Chiappone, 2000 Overview of the direct and indirect effects of fishing. The National Undersea Research Center. Unpublished manuscript.

Chiappone, M. and Sullivan, K.M.. 1996. Distribution, abundance and species composition of juvenile scleractinian corals in the Florida Reef Tract. Bull. Mar. Sci. 58(2):555-569.

Connell, J. R. 1978. Diversity in tropical rain forests and coral reefs.  Science 199:1302-1310

Cortes, J. 1997. Status of the Caribbean coral reefs of Central America. In: Proc 8th Int. Coral Reef Symp., Panama City, Panama. 1: 335-340.

Cowen, R. K. 1985. Large scale pattern of recruitment by the labrid, Semicossyphus pulcher: Causes and Implications. J. Mar Res 43: 719-742.

Done, T.J. 1992. Phase shifts in coral reef communities and their ecological significance.            Hydrobiologia. 247: 121-132.

Done, T.J. 1987. Simulation of the effects of Acanthaster planci  on the population structure of massive corals in the genus Porites: evidence of population resilience?  Coral Reefs. 6:75-90.

Dustan, P. 1987. Preliminary observations on the vitality of reef corals in San Salvador, Bahamas.          Proc. 3rd Sym. on the Geol. Bahamas. 57-65 pp.  

Edmunds, P.J. 2000. Patterns in the distribution of juvenile corals and coral reef community structure in St. John, US Virgin Islands. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 202:113-124.  

Edmunds, P.J. 2000. Recruitment of scleractinians onto the skeletons of corals killed by black band disease. Coral Reefs 19(1):69-74.

Edmunds, Peter J. 1991. Extent and effect of Black Band Disease on a Caribbean reef” Coral Reefs. 10: 161-165.  

Garrison, V.H., Rogers, C.S. and Beets, J.  1998.  Of reef fishes, overfishing, and in situ observations of fish traps in St. John, U.S Virgin Islands. Revista de Biologica Tropical.  46:41-59.

Ginsburg, R.N. ed. 1993. Proceedings of the Colloquium on Global Aspects of Coral Reefs: Health, Hazards, and History, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Univ. of Miami, FL, 420 p.

Ginsburg, R., Alcolado, P., Arias, E., Bruckner, A., Claro, R., Curran, A., Deschamps, A., Fonseca, A., Feingold, J., Garcia - Saez, C., Gilliam, D., Gittings, S., D., Glasspool, A., Horta-Puga, G., Klomp, K., Kramer, P. A., Kramer, P. R., A., Leao, Z., Lang, J., Manfrino, C., Nemeth, R., Pattengill-Semmens, C., Peckol, P., Posada, J., Riegl, B., Robinson, J., Sale, P., Steneck, R., Vargas, J., Villamizar, E.  2000.  Status of Caribbean Reefs: Initial results from the Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment (AGRRA) Program.  Abstr. Proc. 9th Intern. Coral Reef Symp. Abstr. 211.

Ginsburg, R.N., Bak, R.P.M., Kiene, W.E., Gishler, E. and Kosmynin, E. 1996. Rapid assessment of reef condition using coral vitality. Reef Encounter. 19: 12-13.

Gleason, D.F. and Wellington, G.M. 1993. Ultraviolet radiation and coral bleaching. Nature. Vol. 365: 836-837.

Glynn, P.W. 1996. Coral reef bleaching: facts, hypotheses and implications. Global Change Biology. 2:  495-509.  

Glynn, P.W. 1993. Coral reef bleaching: ecological perspectives. Coral Reefs 12:1-17.

Goeden, G. B. Intensive fishing and a ‘keystone’ predator species: ingredients for community instability. Bio. Cons. 22:273-281.

Hay, M. 1984. Patterns of fish and urchin grazing on Caribbean coral reefs: are previous results typical? Ecology. 65(2): 446-454.

Horn, M.H. 1989. Biology of marine herbivorous fishes. Oceangr. Mar. Biol. 27: 167-272.

Hughes, TP, AH Baird, EA Dinsdale, NA Moitschaniwskyj, MS Pratchett, JE Tanner and BL Willis. 1999. Patterns of recruitment and abundance of corals along the Great Barrier Reef. Nature 397: 59-63.

Hughes, T.P. 1994. Catastrophes, phase shifts, and large-scale degradation of a Caribbean coral reef.   Science. Vol. 265: 1547-1551.

Hughes, T.P. and J.B.C. Jackson. 1980.  Do Corals Lie About Their Age?  Some Demographic Consequences of Partial Mortality, Fission, and Fusion.  Science.  Vol. 209.  pp. 713-715

Hughes, T.P., Reed, D.C. and Boyle, M. 1987. Herbivory on coral reefs: community structure following mass mortalities of sea urchins. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. Vol. 113: 39-59.  

Hughes, T.P., Szmant, A.M., Steneck, R., Carpenter, R. and Miller, S. 1999. Algal blooms on coral reefs: what are the causes? Limnol. Oceanogr. 44: 1583-1586.

Jackson, J.B.C. 1994. Constancy and change of life in the sea. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B) 344:55-60.

Jones, G.P. and C. Syms. 1998.  Disturbance, habitat structure and the ecology of fishes on coral reefs.  Austr. J. Ecol. 23:287-297.  

Kuta, K.G. and Richardson, L.L. 1996. Abundance and distribution of black band disease on coral reefs in the northern Florida Keys. Coral Reefs. 15: 219-223.  

Lang, J.C., Lasker, H.R., Gladfelter, E.H., Hallock, P., Jaap, W.C., Losada, F.J. and Muller, R.G. 1992. Spatial and temporal variability during periods of recovery after mass bleaching on western Atlantic coral reefs. American Zoologist 32(6):696-706.

Lapointe, B.E. 1997. Nutrient thresholds for bottom-up control of macroalgal blooms on coral reefs in Jamaica and southeast Florida. Limnol Oceanogr 42: 1119-1131.

Lapointe, B.E. 1999. Simultaneous top-down and bottom-up forces control macroalgal blooms on coral reefs (Reply to the comment by Hughes et al.) Limnol Oceanogr 44: 1586-1592.

Lessios, H.A. 1988. Mass mortality of Diadema antillarum in the Caribbean: what have we learned? Ann Rev Ecol Syst 19: 371-393.

Lewis, J.B. 1996. Abundance, disturbances and partial mortality of the massive coral Siderastrea siderea on degrading coral reefs at Barbados, West Indies. Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Lewis, Sara M. 1986. The Role of Herbivorous Fishes in the Organization of A Caribbean Reef Community.  Ecological Monographs. 56(3): 183-200.  

Liddell, W.D. and Ohlhorst, S.L. 1986. Changes in benthic community composition following mass mortality of  Diadema antillarum. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 95(3):271-278.

McClanahan, T. R. 1995. A coral reef ecosystem-fisheries model: Impacts of fishing intensity and catch selection on reef structure and processes. Ecol. Model. 80:1-19.  

McClanahan, T.R., Aronson, R.B., Precht, W.F. and Muthiga, N.A. 1999. Fleshy algae dominate remote coral reefs of Belize. Coral Reefs 18(1):61-62.

McClanahan, T.R. and Muthiga, N.A.  An ecological shift in a remote coral reef atoll of Belize over 25 Years.  

McField, M.D. 1999. Coral response during and after mass bleaching in Belize. Bull. Mar. Sci. 64:155-172.

McManus, J.W. 1997. Tropical marine fisheries and the future of coral reefs: a brief review with emphasis on Southeast Asia. Coral Reefs 16:121-127.

Meesters, E.H. and Bak, R.P.M. 1995.Age-related deterioration of a physiological function in the branching coral Acropora palmata. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 121(1-3):203-209.

Meesters, E.H. and Bak, R.P.M. 1993. Effects of coral bleaching on tissue regeneration potential and colony survival. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 96:189-198.

Meesters, E.H., Wesseling, I. and Bak, R.P.M. 1996. Partial Mortality in three species of reef-building corals and the relation with colony morphology. Bull. Mar. Sci. 58(3): 838-852.

Meesters, E.H., Pauchli, W. and Bak, R.P.M. 1997. Predicting regeneration of physical damage on a reef-building coral by regeneration capacity and lesion shape. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. Vol. 146: 91-99.  

Miller, M.W., Weil, E. and Szmant, A.M. 2000. Coral recruitment and juvenile mortality as structuring factors for reef benthic communities in Biscayne National Park, USA. Coral Reefs 19(2):115-123.

Mumby, P.J. 1999. Bleaching and hurricane disturbances to populations of coral recruits in Belize Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 190:27-35.

Mumby, P.J. 1999. Can Caribbean coral populations be modeled at metapopulation scales? Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 180:275-288.

Murdoch, T.J.T. and Aronson, R.B. 1999. Scale dependent spatial variability of corral assemblages along the Florida Reef Tract. Coral Reefs 18(4): 341-351.

Ogden, J. C. and Lobel, P.S. 1978. The role of herbivorous fishes and urchins in coral reef communities. Environ. Biol. Fishes 3:49-63.

Porter, James W. and Ouida W. Meier. 1992. Quantification of Loss and Change in Floridian Reef Coral Populations.  American Zoologist. 32(6): 625-640.

Richardon, LL 1998 Coral diseases: what is really known? TREE volume no.: 438-444.

Richardson, LL, WM Goldberg, KG Kuta, RB Aronson, GW Smith, KB Ritchie, JC Halas, JS Feingold, SL Miller. 1998. Florida's mystery coral-killer identified. Nature 392: 557-558.

Roberts, C.M. 1995. Effects of fishing on the ecosystem structure of coral reefs. Conservation Biology. Vol. 9(5): 988-995.

Roberts, C.M. 1997. Connectivity and management of Caribbean coral reefs. Science 278:1454-1457.

Roberts, C. M., and N. V. C. Polunin. 1991.  Are marine reserves effective in management of reef fisheries?  Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 1:65-91.

Ross, S.T. 1986. Resource partitioning in fish assemblages: A review of field studies. Copeia:352-388.  

Sakai, K. 1998. Effect of colony size, polyp size, and budding mode on egg production in a colonial coral. Biol. Bull. 195(3):319-325.

Sale, P.F. 1998. Appropriate spatial scales for studies of reef fish ecology. Aust. J. Ecol. 23(3):202-208.

Sale, P.F. 1988. Perception, pattern, chance and the structure of reef fish communities. Environ. Biol. Fish 21(1):3-5.

Sale, P.F. 1978. Coexistence of coral reef fishes - A lottery for living space. Environ. Biol. Fishes 3:85-102.

Sale, P.F. 1978. Reef fishes and other invertebrates: A comparison of social structures. In "Contrasts in behavior. Adaptations in the aquatic and terrestrial environments. (E.S. Reese and F.J. Lighter, eds) pp 313-346. Wiley (Interscience), New York.

Sale, P.S. and Ferrell, D.J. 1988. Early survivorship of juvenile coral reef fishes. Coral Reefs 7(3):117-124.

Sale, P.F. and Guy, J.A. 1992. Persistence of community structure- what happens when you change taxonomic scale. Coral Reefs 11(3):147-154.

Samoilys, M. A. 1988.  Abundance and species richness of coral reef fish on the Kenyan coast: the effects of protective management and fishing.  Proc. Sixth Int. Coral Reef Symp. 2:261-266

Soong, K.Y. and Lang, J.C. 1992. Reproductive integration in reef corals. Biological Bulletin 183: (3) 418-431.

Steneck, R.S., Ginsburg, R.N., Kramer, P., Lang, J. and Sale, P. 2000. Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment (AGRRA): a species and spatially explicit reef assessment protocol. 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali, Indonesia.

Steneck, R.S. 1988. Herbivory on coral reefs: a synthesis. Proc. 6th Int. Coral Reef Symp. Aust. 1:37 - 49.

Steneck, R.S. 1994. Is herbivore loss more damaging to reefs than hurricanes? Case studies from two Caribbean reef systems (1978 - 1988). pp  220 - 226. In: Ginsburg RN (ed.) Proc Colloquium on Global Aspects of Coral Reefs: Health, Hazards, and History, 1993. Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida.

Steneck, R.S. and Dethier, M.N. 1994. A functional group approach to the structure of algal-dominated communities. Oikos 69: 476 - 498.

Syms, C. and Jones, G.P. 2000. Disturbance, habitat structure, and the dynamics of a coral reef fish community. Ecology 81(10):2714-2729.

Szmant, A.M. 1991. Sexual reproduction by the Caribbean reef corals Montastraea annularis and M. cavernosa. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 74:13-25.

Vanveghel, M.L.J. and Bosscher, H. 1995. Variation in linear growth and skeletal density within the polymorphic reef building coral Montastraea annularis. Bull. Mar. Sci. 56(3):902-908.

Vanveghel, M.L.J, Cleary, D.F.R. and Bak, R.P.M. 1996. Interspecific interactions and competitive ability of the polymorphic reef-building coral Montastrea annularis. Bull. Mar. Sci. 58(3):792-803.

Vanveghel, M.L.J. and Kahmann, M.E.H. 1994. Reproductive characteristics of the polymorphic Caribbean reef building coral Montastraea annularis. 2. Fecundity and colony structure. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 109(2-3): 221-227.

Weil, E, and Knowlton, N. 1994. A multi-character analysis of the Caribbean coral Montastraea annularis (Ellis and Solander, 1786) and its two sibling species, M. faveolata (Ellis and Solander, 1786) and M. franksi (Gregory, 1895). Bull Mar Sci 55:151-175.

Williams, D. 1991. Patterns and processes in the distribution of coral reef fishes. In: The ecology of fishes on coral reefs (P.F. Sale, ed.), Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 437-474.

Williams E.H., Jr, Bunkley-Williams, L. 1990. The world-wide coral reef bleaching cycle and related sources of coral mortality.  Atoll. Res. Bull. 335:1-71.

 

 

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