Table of Contents

List of chapters (the authors have already agreed)

1. Introduction: Coral Bleaching: Patterns, Processes, Causes and Consequences

JM Lough

2. 2 The evolution of the coral-algal symbiosis

GD Stanley

3. Coral bleaching in space and time

JK Oliver

4. The 2014-2016 El Nino and coral bleaching events (new chapter)< JM Lough

5. Climate variability and change: Monitoring data and evidence for increased coral bleaching stress

CM Eakin

6. Detecting and monitoring coral bleaching events

M Spalding

7. Bleaching resistance and the role of algal endosymbionts

K Quigley

8. The role of prokaryote symbionts in coral bleaching (new chapter)

K Morrow

9. The molecular basis of the coral bleaching responses (new chapter)

S Davy

10. Bleaching and mortality thresholds: How much is too much?

R Berkelmans

11. Consequences of coral bleaching for sessile reef organisms

TR McClanahan

12. Coral bleaching and consequences for motile reef organisms: Past, present and uncertain futur effects

MS Pratchett

13. Future scenarios: A review of modelling efforts to predict the future of coral reefs in an era of climate change

SD Donner

14. Synthesis: Coral Bleaching: Patterns, Processes, Causes and Consequences

MJH van Oppen

About the Author

Madeleine J.H. van Oppen
Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB 3, Townsville MC, Queensland 4810, Australia and School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
e-mail: madeleine.van@unimelb.edu.auJ.M. Lough
Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB 3, Townsville MC, Queensland 4810, Australia and ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
e-mail: j.lough@aims.gov.au