Imperiled reef: the fascinating, fragile life of a Caribbean wonder

Part I. The Essential Reef

1. How to Build a Barrier Reef

2. Who Knew, and When? Discovering the Caribbean's Greatest Barrier Reef

3. Uneasy Symbiosis: The Relationship between the Mainland and the Reef

Part II. Nature's Aquarium

4. Masters of the Aquatic Commute: Sea Turtles

5. The Life Translucent: Jellyfishes and Their Kin

6. Hanging on for Dear Life: Creatures Anchored to the Reef

7. The Underwater Kaleidoscope: From Tiny Blennies to Giant Eagle Rays

8. Big, Bold, and Vanishing: Groupers and Parrotfishes

9. Where Have All the Sea Urchins Gone?

10. Starring Roles: Starfishes and Their Kin

11. Hiding Out: Creatures at Home inside the Reef

12. Armed for Survival: Octopuses and Squids

13. Aquatic Intellectuals: Dolphins

14. Misunderstood "Bad Boys of the Reef": Sharks

Part III. What Works: Joining Forces to Save the Reef

15. Invasion of the Lionfish

16. The View from Carrie Bow Cay: The Importance of Monitoring

17. The Lobstermen's Dilemma: A Model Solution

18. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally

and Collaboratively

19. And Individually: What Each of Us Can Do Right Now to Save the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef