1. Preface

   • Terry Hughes

   EditorialNotes Pages: 115 - 115

2. Disturbance, coral reef communities, and changing ecological paradigms

   • R. H. Karlson
   • L. E. Hurd

   Reports Pages: 117 - 125

3. On tropical cyclones, corals and coral reefs

   • Terry Done

   Reef Sites Pages: 126 - 126

4. Hurricanes and coral reefs: The intermediate disturbance hypothesis revisited

   • C. S. Rogers

   Reports Pages: 127 - 137

5. Hurricane damage in Jamaica

   • J. D. Woodley

   Reef Sites Pages: 138 - 138

6. Hurricane effects on backreef echinoderms of the Caribbean

   • R. B. Aronson

   Reports Pages: 139 - 142

7. Chronic and catastrophic natural mortality of three common Caribbean reef corals

   • J. C. Bythell
   • E. H. Gladfelter
   • M. Bythell

   Reports Pages: 143 - 152

8. Effects of cyclone waves on massive coral assemblages on the Great Barrier Reef: meteorology, hydrodynamics and demography

   • S. R. Massel
   • T. J. Done

   Reports Pages: 153 - 166

9. Resilience of corals to hurricanes: a simulation model

   • N. G. Andres
   • N. L. Rodenhouse

   Reports Pages: 167 - 175

10. Ecological impact of a fresh-water “reef kill” in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii

    • P. L. Jokiel
    • C. L. Hunter
    • L. Watarai

    Reports Pages: 177 - 184

11. Destruction of corals and other reef animals by coral spawn slicks on Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia

    • C. J. Simpson
    • J. L. Cary
    • R. J. Masini

    Reports Pages: 185 - 191

12. Effects of disturbance on coral communities: bleaching in Moorea, French Polynesia

    • M. G. Gleason

    Reports Pages: 193 - 201

13. The geological effects of hurricanes on coral reefs and the interpretation of storm deposits

    • T. P. Scoffin

    Reports Pages: 203 - 221

14. Recurrent storm disturbance and recovery: a long-term study of coral communities in Hawaii

    • S. J. Dollar
    • G. W. Tribble

    Reports Pages: 223 - 233

15. Acknowledgement to referees

    Acknowledgments Pages: 234 - 234