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 ah 220 5002414 evi