1. Coral Reefs: Progress and change as we approach the 21st Century

   • Richard W. Grigg
   • Terry Hughes

   Editorial Pages: 1 - 1

2. Formation of a coral reef-front spur

   • H. Kan
   • N. Hori
   • K. Ichikawa

   Note Pages: 3 - 4

3. Clonal propagation by the azooxanthellate octocoral Dendronephthya hemprichi

   • M. Dahan
   • Y. Benayahu

   Reports Pages: 5 - 12

4. Contact reactions between young colonies of the coral Pocillopora damicornis

   • M. Hidaka
   • K. Yurugi
   • R. A. Kinzie III.

   Reports Pages: 13 - 20

5. In vivo absorbance spectra and the ecophysiology of reef macroalgae

   • K. S. Beach
   • H. B. Borgeas
   • C. M. Smith

   Reports Pages: 21 - 28

6. A unique algal ridge system in the Exuma Cays, Bahamas

   • R. S. Steneck
   • I. G. Macintyre
   • R. P. Reid

   Reports Pages: 29 - 37

7. Sediment retention in encrusting Palythoa spp.—a biological twist to a geological process

   • D. W. Haywick
   • E. M. Mueller

   Reports Pages: 39 - 46

8. Selective feeding by larvae of the crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci (L.)

   • K. Okaji
   • T. Ayukai
   • J. S. Lucas

   Reports Pages: 47 - 50

9. A unique coral reef formation discovered on the Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji

   • M. M. Littler
   • D. S. Littler
   • J. F. Koven

   Reports Pages: 51 - 54

10. Zoanthids (Anthozoa, Hexacorallia) from the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait, Australia: systematics, evolution and a key to species

    • W. J. Burnett
    • J. A. H. Benzie
    • J. S. Ryland

    Reports Pages: 55 - 68