Central to evaluating the effects of ocean acidification (OA) on coral reefs is understanding how calcification is affected by the dissolution of CO2 in sea water, which causes declines in carbonate ion concentration [CO32?] and increases in bicarbona . . .

While the decline in cover of scleractinian corals on Caribbean reefs is well known, little attention has been paid to other taxa that might covary in abundance. This study focused on octocorals around St. John and St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, in or . . .

Studies of coral colonies show that ocean acidification and temperature can affect calcification; however, less is known about the consequences for their populations. Understanding intraspecific variation in the response of corals to these conditions . . .

This study provides a spatial context to a temporal analysis of community structure on shallow reefs along the south shore of St. John, US Virgin Islands. By focusing on 12 to 14 sites stratified by depth (~10 m) and distributed along the shores of St . . .

The exchange of Symbiodinium symbionts among scleractinian and soritid hosts could facilitate acclimatization to changing conditions by establishing novel symbiotic unions better tuned to prevailing conditions. In this study, we compare the communitie . . .

We respond to the comment 'Coral reef calcification: carbonate, bicarbonate and proton flux under conditions of increasing ocean acidification' by Jokiel, who uses our data to test his 'proton flux hypothesis', which accounts for the negative effect o . . .

Acropora palmata (Lamarck, 1816) is an iconic coral that was once one of the most important reef builders in the Caribbean Sea. Starting in the early 1980s, A. palmata was decimated by white band disease (WBD) and hurricanes (Aronson and Precht 2001), . . .