Table of Contents

1 The Coral Reefs of Eilat — Past, Present and Future: Three Decades of Coral Community Structure Studies.- 2 Coral Reef Diseases in the Wider Caribbean.- 3 Coral Disease on the Great Barrier Reef.- 4 Coral Diseases in Gulf of México Reefs.- 5 Coral Bleaching: Signs of Change in Southern Japan.- 6 Coral Bleaching in a Temperate Sea: From Colony Physiology to Population Ecology.- 7 Coral Bleaching, Diseases and Mortality in the Western Indian Ocean.- 8 Symbiont Diversity on Coral Reefs and Its Relationship to Bleaching Resistance and Resilience.- 9 Stress Effects on Metabolism and Photosynthesis of Hermatypic Corals.- 10 What Can Regeneration Processes Tell Us About Coral Disease?.- 11 Bacteria as a Source of Coral Nutrition.- 12 Antimicrobial Activity of Sponges and Corals.- 13 Microbial Communities of Coral Surface Mucopolysaccharide Layers.- 14 Culture-Independent Analyses of Coral-Associated Microbes.- 15 Aspergillosis of Gorgonians.- 16 White Pox Disease of the Caribbean Elkhorn Coral, Acropora palmata.- 17 Temperature-Regulated Bleaching and Tissue Lysis of Pocillopora damicornis by the Novel Pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus.- 18 Black Band Disease.- 19 Dark Spots Disease and Yellow Band Disease, Two Poorly Known Coral Diseases with High Incidence in Caribbean Reefs.- 20 White Plague, White Band, and Other “White” Diseases.- 21 Monitoring the Health of Coral Reef Ecosystems Using Community Metabolism.- 22 Coral Resistance to Disease.- 23 Temperature Stress and Coral Bleaching.- 24 The Adaptive Hypothesis of Bleaching.- 25 The Bacterial Disease Hypothesis of Coral Bleaching.- 26 Coral Reefs and Projections of Future Change.