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Stung! : on jellyfish blooms and the future of the ocean
- 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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QL377.S4 G47 2013 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Earle, Sylvia A., 1935-
- Description
- xiv, 424 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references 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.
- ISBN
- 9780226020105 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 022602010X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226020242 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2012043147
- 40022239936
- OCLC
- 809911014
- ocn809911014
- SCSB-5688930
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries