1. Coral reefs: biodiverse and productive tropical ecosystems
2. The main reef builders and space occupiers
3. The abiotic environment
4. Symbiotic interactions
5. Microbial, microalgal, and planktonic reef life
6. Reef fishes: diversity, feeding, and food chains
7. Reef fisheries and reef aquaculture
8. Coral reefs in the modern world
9. Consequences to reefs of changing environmental stress
10. The future, human population, and management.