Coastal Lagoons (Paperback)

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Formation and fate of lagoons; 3. The lagoonal environment; 4. Lagoonal ecology; 5. Strategies for lagoonal species; 6. Human use of lagoons; 7. Methods for the study of coastal lagoons; 8. Other coastal lagoon-like systems; Further reading; References; Indexes.