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| STUNG! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean Lisa-ann Gershwin Sylvia Earle (Fwd.) Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, May 2013 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-226-02010-5 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-226-02010-X | 424pp. | HC/FCI | $27.50 | |
| Foreword by Sylvia Earle | xi | |
| Introduction | 1 | |
| PART I — JELLYFISH BEHAVING BADLY | ||
| 1: | At the Mercy of Jellyfish | 11 |
| 2: | Some Astonishing Ecological Impacts | 23 |
| 3: | Jellyfish Completely Out of Control | 43 |
| PART II — JELLYFISH, PLANETARY DOOM, AND OTHER TRIVIA | ||
| 4: | Jellyfish: The Basics | 79 |
| 5: | Overview of Ecosystem Perturbations | 101 |
| 6: | Overfishing: A Powerful Agent of Ecosystem Change | 111 |
| 7: | Eutrophication Almost Always Leads to Jellyfish | 161 |
| 8: | Pollution Destabilizes Ecosystems | 187 |
| 9: | Biopollution: The Twelfth Plague | 217 |
| 10: | Climate Change Changes Everything | 227 |
| PART III — THE WEEDS SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH | ||
| 11: | The Allee Effect, Trophic Cascades, and Shifting Baselines | 257 |
| 12: | The Jellyfish Double Whammy | 271 |
| 13: | High-Energy and Low-Energy Ecosystems | 279 |
| PART IV — THE OCEANS ARE DYING TO TELL US SOMETHING | ||
| 14: | Ocean Acidification: The "New" Problem | 305 |
| 15: | The Rise of Slime | 331 |
| Acknowledgments | 345 | |
| Appendix | 349 | |
| Glossary of Terms | 363 | |
| Some Practical Conversions | 369 | |
| References | 371 | |
| Index | 409 | |
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