Contents
Contents
Introduction
Essential information
PARTI
Understanding Coral Reefs
Chapter 1
The World of Coral Reefs
Defining coral reefs
Patterns of diversity
Quantifying diversity
Organisms of the coral reef
Chapter 2
Signs of Change
The importance of reefs
Threats to reefs
Responses
Chapter 3
Reef Mapping
Reef mapping techniques
Global reef mapping
PART II
The Atlantic and Eastern Pacific
92
12
Chapter 4
Northern Caribbean
95
Florida and the US Gulf of Mexico
97
13
Bermuda
101
Bahamas
103
Turks and Caicos Islands
106
U
15
Chapter 5
19
Western Caribbean
110
27
Mexico
113
29
Belize
Honduras. Nicaragua, Guatemala
117
and El Salvador
121
Ab
Costa Rica and Panama
125
47
Colombia and Ecuador
130
56
Cuba
135
66
Jamaica
139
Cayman Islands
U1
78
Chapter 6
81
Eastern Caribbean and Atlantic
U7
89
Haiti, the Dominican Republic and
Navassa Island
1^'
Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
153
The Lesser Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago
1 58
Venezuela and Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao
168
Brazil and West Africa
1 73