《珊瑚礁》，國際珊瑚礁學(xué)會期刊，介紹了珊瑚礁研究的廣泛領(lǐng)域的多學(xué)科文獻(xiàn)，出版了關(guān)于現(xiàn)代和古代珊瑚礁的分析和理論論文。這鼓勵了對珊瑚礁結(jié)構(gòu)和動力學(xué)理論的探索，以及實(shí)驗(yàn)、建模、量化和應(yīng)用科學(xué)的應(yīng)用。覆蓋范圍包括人口動態(tài)等主題領(lǐng)域;礁生物群落生態(tài)學(xué);能量和營養(yǎng)流動;生物地球化學(xué)循環(huán);生理學(xué)的鈣化;珊瑚礁對自然和人為影響的反應(yīng);礁生物的應(yīng)力標(biāo)記;行為生態(tài)學(xué);沉積學(xué);成巖作用;礁的結(jié)構(gòu)和形態(tài);礁生物群落演化生態(tài)學(xué);珊瑚礁和珊瑚島古海洋學(xué);珊瑚礁管理及其基礎(chǔ)學(xué)科;珊瑚的分子生物學(xué)及遺傳學(xué);珊瑚礁相關(guān)生物疾病的病因?qū)W;珊瑚礁對全球變化的反應(yīng)等等。

Coral Reefs, the Journal of the International Coral Reef Society, presents multidisciplinary literature across the broad fields of reef studies, publishing analytical and theoretical papers on both modern and ancient reefs. These encourage the search for theories about reef structure and dynamics, and the use of experimentation, modeling, quantification and the applied sciences.Coverage includes such subject areas as population dynamics; community ecology of reef organisms; energy and nutrient flows; biogeochemical cycles; physiology of calcification; reef responses to natural and anthropogenic influences; stress markers in reef organisms; behavioural ecology; sedimentology; diagenesis; reef structure and morphology; evolutionary ecology of the reef biota; palaeoceanography of coral reefs and coral islands; reef management and its underlying disciplines; molecular biology and genetics of coral; aetiology of disease in reef-related organisms; reef responses to global change, and more.