"The book "Biology and Ecology of Groupers" will be an up-to-date review of worldwide research made on groupers. It will be divided into three sections: Biology (Section I) which will also include classification and phylogenetic relationships, geographical distribution and life history. An Ecology section (Section II) which will describe how life history characteristics determine patterns of occurrence and abundance in space and time, and how this affects population structure and connectivity; and a third section regarding Conservation status (Section III) covering the major threats faced by groupers, case-studies of population recovery and what will be the future for the groupers in our world"--