Coral Reefs: Journal of th International Society for Reef Studies

This journal supplies a focal point for the hitherto scattered literature in this rapidly expanding field of reef studies, publishing analytical and theroretical papers on both modern and ancient reefs. It encourages the search for generalisations about reef structure and dymanics, and reflects the growing awareness among reef workers of the importance of experimentation, modeling, quanitification and applied sciencein reef studies. Papers published in the journal deal with population dynamics and community ecology of reef organisms, energy and nutrient flows, biogeochemical cycles, physiology of calcification, reef response to natural and anthropenic stress, behavioural ecology, sedimentology, diagensis, reef structre and morephology, evolutionary ecology of the reef biot, paleoceanography of coral reefs and coral islands and the science with underpins reef management.