1. Preface

   • Barbara E. Brown

   EditorialNotes Pages: 153 - 153

2. Response of Hawaiian and other Indo-Pacific reef corals to elevated temperature

   • P. L. Jokiel
   • S. L. Coles

   OriginalPaper Pages: 155 - 162

3. Damage and recovery of coral reefs affected by El Niño related seawater warming in the Thousand Islands, Indonesia

   • B. E. Brown
   • Suharsono

   OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 170

4. A statistical analysis of coral community responses to the 1982–83 El Niño in the Thousand Islands, Indonesia

   • R. M. Warwick
   • K. R. Clarke
   • Suharsono

   OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 179

5. Experimental evidence for high temperature stress as the cause of El Niño-coincident coral mortality

   • P. W. Glynn
   • L. D'Croz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 191

6. Seawater temperature and sublethal coral bleaching in Jamaica

   • R. D. Gates

   OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 197

7. Response of sponges with autotrophic endosymbionts during the coral-bleaching episode in Puerto Rico

   • V. P. Vicente

   OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 202

8. Microscopic observations of recovery in the reef-building scleractinian coral, Montastrea annularis, after bleaching on a Cayman reef

   • R. L. Hayes
   • P. G. Bush

   OriginalPaper Pages: 203 - 209

9. Reduced growth rate of Montastrea annularis following the 1987–1988 coral-bleaching event

   • T. J. Goreau
   • A. H. Macfarlane

   OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 215

10. The effects of prolonged “bleaching” on the tissue biomass and reproduction of the reef coral Montastrea annularis

    • A. M. Szmant
    • N. J. Gassman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 224

11. Bleaching in coral reef anthozoans: effects of irradiance, ultraviolet radiation, and temperature on the activities of protective enzymes against active oxygen

    • M. P. Lesser
    • W. R. Stochaj
    • J. M. Shick

    OriginalPaper Pages: 225 - 232