understanding of the intimate relationships between the
serve its purpose best if the reader comes away with more
seemingly fragile components of the ecosystem: the
lagoon, the reefs, the islands and their biotas, all perched
on a volcanic and coral pinnacle in the vastness of the
questions than answers and a desire to find the answers to
these questions in future research on the natural history of
coral reefs and islands.
Pacific Ocean. In the final analysis, however, the book will
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