A Reef in Time

The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to End

J.E.N. Veron

    Preface

    1. The Big Picture

    2. The Great Barrier Reef: An Overview

    3. Corals and Reefs: Controls and Processes

    4. The State of the Great Barrier Reef

    5. Mass Extinctions and Reef Gaps

    6. Messages from Deep Time

    7. The Cenozoic Roller-Coaster

    8. Australia Adrift

    9. The Ice Ages

    10. The Last Glacial Cycle

    11. Many Origins

    12. Stone Age Utopia

    13. An Enhanced Greenhouse World

    14. Temperature and Mass Bleaching

    15. Ocean Acidity and Coralline Osteoporosis

    16. The Ocean's Canary

    Notes

    Glossary

    Acknowledgments

    Index

  • Cover: A Reef in Time
  • A photo of the author

J. E. N. Veron is former Chief Scientist with the Australian Institute of Marine Science. The recipient of the 2004 Darwin Medal of the International Society for Reef Studies, he is also the author of the three-volume Corals of the World.