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Both authors are ideally suited to prepare this book, offering a
nice mix of biological and geological expertise on coral reef
systems. There is a glaring gap in the market for this book - there
is no literature or database that comprehensively summarises the
latest remote sensing imagery for global atolls. There is no
comparable book. The treatment employs state-of-the-art satellite
imagery and updates the existing Atlas of Coral Reefs by Spalding
et al which came out more than 20 years ago. Atolls are a favorite
topic of research in the biological/ecological and geological
sciences due to their unusual ring-like reef form and their
laboratory-like, isolated settings. The great strength and
contribution of this book is the comprehensive analysis and summary
of all these different atolls and their main characteristics in one
place. The writing is excellent, striking a nice balance between
providing enough detail while also being accessible to a general
reader. A useful resource for a range of higher education courses,
undergraduate and masters level courses i.e., coastal processes and
environments, coral reefs and climate change, oceans coasts and
climate. One reviewer says: "This is a superb volume, which I
suspect will be much referred to. The authors a pre-eminent in
this, and it will be authoritative as well as useful to a wide
range of people."
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