CONTENTS: A Ramble Across the Barrier Island Hippocampus Birth of a Barrier Beach How to Be a Beachcomber Your Beachcombing Kit Amphipods Mole Crabs Razor Clams After the Storm Up and Down in the Dune and Swale Zone What's in a Name? Natural Communities Food Chains Mysteries of the Maritime Forest Ecosystem Wet Your Feet in the Salt Marsh What Good is a Salt Marsh? Natural Succession Who's Who in the Zostera Community The Eelgrass Blight Niches Glossary Reading List Explorations A Living Fossil Beachcombers All Be a Scavenger Sunlight and Sand Osmosis Profiling a Community Comparing Communities Backyard Ecology The Eelgrass Microhabitat The Web of Life