Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Gershwin, Lisa-Ann.

Publication

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Earle, Sylvia A., 1935-

Description

xiv, 424 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustartions (some color); 24 cm

Subjects

• Jellyfish blooms
• Jellyfishes > Ecology
• Marine ecology

Bibliography (note)

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

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.

Call Number

ReCap 16-28826

ISBN

• 9780226020105 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 022602010X (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2012043147

OCLC

2012043147

Author

Gershwin, Lisa-Ann.

Title

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

Publisher

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

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

Added Author

Earle, Sylvia A., 1935-

Research Call Number

ReCap 16-28826