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Title:
Stung! : on jellyfish blooms and the future of the ocean / Lisa-ann Gershwin ; with a foreword by Sylvia Earle.
Author:
Gershwin, Lisa-Ann.

Earle, Sylvia A., 1935-
Publication Information:
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2013]

©2013
Call Number:
QL377 .S4 G47 2013
ISBN:
9780226020105
Physical Description:
xiv, 424 pages,16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Jellyfish behaving badly -- At the mercy of jellyfish -- Some astonishing ecological impacts -- Jellyfish completely out of control -- Jellyfish, planetary doom, and other trivia -- Jellyfish: the basics -- Overview of ecosystem perturbations -- Overfishing: a powerful agent of ecosystem change -- Eutrophication almost always leads to jellyfish -- Pollution destabilizes ecosystems -- Biopollution: the twelfth plague -- Climate change changes everything -- The weeds shall inherit the earth -- The allee effect, trophic cascades, and shifting baselines -- The jellyfish double whammy -- High-energy and low-energy ecosystems -- The oceans are dying to tell us something -- Ocean acidification: the "new" problem -- The rise of slime.
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