Stung! : on jellyfish blooms and the future of the ocean

Gershwin, Lisa-Ann. (Author). Earle, Sylvia A., 1935- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780226020105 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 022602010X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780226020242 (e-book)
ISBN: 022602024X (e-book)
Physical Description: print
xiv, 424 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-408) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

part I [1]. Jellyfish behaving badly -- 1. At the mercy of jellyfish -- 2. Some astonishing ecological impacts -- 3. Jellyfish completely out of control -- part II [2]. Jellyfish, planetary doom, and other trivia -- 4. Jellyfish : the basics -- 5. Overview of ecosystem perturbations -- 6. Overfishing : a powerful agent of ecosystem change -- 7. Eutrophication almost always leads to jellyfish -- 8. Pollution destabilizes ecosystems -- 9. Biopollution : the twelfth plague -- 10. Climate change changes everything -- part III [3]. The weeds shall inherit the earth -- 11. The allee effect, trophic cascades, and shifting baselines -- 12. The jellyfish double whammy -- 13. High-energy and low-energy ecosystems -- part IV [4]. The oceans are dying to tell us something -- 14. Ocean acidification : the "new" problem -- 15. The rise of slime.