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American Zoologist 1992 32(6):719-731; doi:10.1093/icb/32.6.719
© 1992 by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
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Pleistocene Perspectives on Coral Reef Community Structure1

JEREMY B. C. JACKSON2
Center for Tropical Paleoecology, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Apartado 2072, Balboa, Republic of Panama

Composition and zonation of coral reef communities are unstable on the scale of human lifetimes, but stable on average over thousands to hundreds of thousands of years. Traditional small-scale ecological studies can miss community patterns which are obscured by the noise of short-term change. Tests for stability require monitoring of populations over many generations—millenia for long-lived corals and forest trees. The only recourse is the fossil record.


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