Programme.

• Environmental records in reef organisms

• Fossil reefs and corals as archives

• Paleoclimate and sea-level change

• Paleogeographic distribution of reefs

• Reefs in siliciclastic settings

Thomas Felis

Jens Zinke

• Controls on, and histories of, Holocene reef accretion

• Structural consequences of large-scale disturbance events (cyclones, tsunami, coral bleaching)

• Reef sediments and sediment records of environmental disturbance and change

Session dedicated to the memory of Terry Scoffin

Eberhard Gischler

Chris Perry

• Distributions and explanatory factors (present and past)
• Reef development and morphology (present and past)
• Significance of corals as habitat for species
• The role of cold-water corals in the marine food web
• Ecological consequences of damage or impact to coral communities
• Management – useful practices, design and effectiveness of MPAs

• Indian Ocean reef status and trends
• Biology and ecology of reef organisms living in extreme environments

• Biological and ecological effects of the Sumatra-Andaman tsunami

• Descriptive studies from previously unstudied locations

Andrew Baird

Tim McClanahan

• Field and modeling studies of advection, internal waves and turbulence near coral reefs
• Reef effects on plankton, pelagic productivity, and microbial food-web

• Pelagic-benthic coupling
• Effects of advection and topography on pelagic ecological processes – plankton aggregation near fronts
• Effects of advection and turbulence on benthic boundary layer processes
• Advection and gene flow - retention and dispersal of larvae

Amatzia Genin

Claudio Richter

• Processes of photosynthesis and calcification: from the gene to the ecosystem

• Heterotrophy, coral feeding

• Gene flow/coral genomics

Christine Ferrier-Pagès

Sylvie Tambutté

• Trophic dynamics and nutrient cycling

• Microbe-metazoan interactions

• Food webs and ecosystem structure

Marta Ribes

Christian Wild

• Long-term and basin-wide changes in coral communities

• Overfishing, eutrophication and phase shifts

• Ecohydrology: changed river catchments and reefs

• Predation, coral-algal dynamics, ecosystem health, ecological indicators

Katharina Fabricius

• Ecological effects of ocean acidification and bleaching

• Remote sensing and macro-ecological approaches to monitoring

• Ecological effects of disturbances (e.g., coral bleaching) from different approaches, experimental, theoretical and from long-term large-scale observations

Carles Pelejero

Hiroya Yamano

• Coral disease

• Coral bleaching

• Bleaching-disease interactions

Barbara Brown

John Bythell

• Population genetics, phylogeography, molecular systematics and evolution of corals

• Fishes, sponges and other taxa

• Species losses and gains, invasive species

Rolf Bak

Serge Planes

• Fisheries and ornamental trade

• Ecology, design and management of MPAs

• Socio-economic origins of ecosystem impacts

Annette Mühlig-Hofmann

Nicholas Polunin

• Reef rehabilitation and restoration

• Concepts for reef restoration

• Reef rehabilitation sites, case studies

• Mariculture of corals and other reef organisms

Buki Rinkevich

Alasdair Edwards

• Development and evaluation of skills, resources, and institutions for coral reef conservation, and learning from management successes and failures;
• Communication of coral reef issues to the broader public;
• Increasing the awareness of stakeholders, decision makers, and the general public regarding
  • reef related issues, especially to threats to coral reefs
  • the possible solutions each of them can contribute to improving the situation;
• The development of conservation partnerships and active engagement with stakeholders.

Moshira Hassan

• Open floor

Pedro Alcolado

Jamaludin Jompa