Intended as a quick reference guide to the diversity of living organisms, this text provides a description of all living organisms from bacteria and single-celled organisms to complex plants and animals. The book is a descriptive, rather than a definitive, guide.
This book summarises what is known of the formation and fate of lagoons, the lagoonal environment, lagoonal ecology, the strategies of lagoonal species, the human use of lagoons, besides containing a general introduction and a section on methods for the study of coastal lagoons.