Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. One. Beginnings 1
5. Two. Serendipity in Deep Time 12
6. Three. Ever Wonderful, Always Different 34
7. Four. So Many Ways of Being 52
8. Five. Exuberant Richness 66
9. Six. Wonderful Surprises. How Do Coral Reef Communities Assemble? 98
10. Seven. How Nemo Found His Way Home 111
11. Eight. Wondrous Reef Chemistry 136
12. Nine. What Good Is a Coral Reef? 153
13. Ten. Why Don’t We Seem to Care about Coral Reefs? 166
14. Eleven. We’ve Left the Holocene 191
15. Twelve. Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene 204
16. Acknowledgments 223
17. Notes 227
18. Index 259