1. Prologue: Sixty years of Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review (OMBAR) ? a brief retrospective and prospective.
2. Editorial: An OMBAR perspective on the United Nations’ Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
3. Pedunculate cirripedes of the genus Pollicipes ? 25 years after Margaret Barnes‘ review.
4. Diversity, distribution, ecology, and conservation status of the family Syngnathidae in southern and western Africa.
5. Hotspots of Cenozoic tropical marine biodiversity.
6. The status and future of blue carbon ecosystems in Sri Lanka: conservation, restoration and policy.
7. The ecology of kelp gametophytes and implications in a changing ocean.
8. Progress and direction in the use of stable isotopes to understand complex coral reef ecosystems: a review.
9. Larval settlement in echinoderms: a review of processes and patterns.
10. The intimate relationship between boxer crabs and sea-anemones: what is known and what is not.
11. Amounts, sources, fates and ecological impacts of marine litter and microplastics in the western Indian ocean region: a review and recommendations for actions.
12. Vertical faunal exchange in the ocean and the deep source-sink hypotheses: insights from pressure tolerance studies.
13. Adaptations and plastic phenotypic responses of marine animals to the environmental challenges of the high intertidal zone.
14. Epilogue: MARGARET BARNES 1919 ? 2009: AN APPRECIATION.