chapter 1 Communities on Submerged Hard Bodies -- chapter 2 Biofouling as a Process -- chapter 3 Temporary Planktonic Existence -- chapter 4 Settlement of Larvae -- chapter 5 Induction and Stimulation of Settlement by a Hard Surface -- chapter 6 Attachment, Development, and Growth -- chapter 7 Fundamentals of the Quantitative Theory of Colonization -- chapter 8 General Regularities of Biofouling -- chapter 9 Protection of Man-Made Structures against Biofouling -- chapter 10 Ecologically Safe Protection from Biofouling -- chapter 11 The General Model of Protection against Biofouling -- chapter 12 Conclusion.