TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Chapter I. INTRODUCTION. Marjorie L. Reaka 1 



Chapter II. RESULTS OF A WORKSHOP ON CORAL REEF ECOLOGY: SYNTHESES 



OF DISCUSSION SECTIONS 7 



Overview: The Dynamics of Recruitment in Coral Reef 



Organisms. William N. McFarland 9 



Growth and Life History Patterns of Coral Reef Organisms: 

 A Discussion Group Summary and Overview. Ronald H. 

 Karlson 17 



Overview: Coral Reef Community Structure and Function. 



Mark A. Hixon 27 



Some Thoughts on the Past, Present, and Future of Studies on 

 Coral Reef Community Metabolism. S. V. Smith 33 



Chapter III. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS 35 



Recruitment of Young Coral Reef Fishes From the Plankton. 

 William N. McFarland and John C. Ogden 37 



Pelagic Duration, Dispersal, and the Distribution of Indo- 

 Pacific Coral-Reef Fishes. Edward B. Brothers and 

 Ronald E. Thresher 53 



Diurnal Periodicity of Spawning Activity by the Hamlet Fish, 

 Hypoplectrus guttavarius (Serranidae). Phillip S. 

 Lobel and Steve Neudecker 71 



Patterns of Reproduction in Small Jamaican Brittle Stars: 

 Fission and Brooding Predominate. Ronald H. Emson, 

 Philip V. Mladenov and Iain C. Wilkie 87 



Reef Zooplankton Collected Along a Depth Gradient at 



Discovery Bay, Jamaica. Sharon L. Ohlhorst 101 



Temporal Patterns of Zooplankton Migration. Sharon L. 



Ohlhorst and W. David Liddell 117 



Field Analysis of the Dominance Hierarchy of the Bicolor 

 Damselfish Stegastes partitus (Poey) (Pisces: Poma- 

 centridae). Yvonne Sadovy 129 



A Comparison of Fore and Back Reef Populations of Diadema 

 antillarum Philippi and Eupomacentrus planifrons 

 Cuvier at St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. C. Lance 

 Robinson and Ann Houston Williams 139 



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