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

Author/creator: Earle, Sylvia A., 1935-, ProQuest (Firm), ProQuest Ebook Central, Gershwin, Lisa-ann.

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Record Identifier: 74VKvbdDJV5O

Language: English

Formats: ebooks

Contents: 1 online resource., 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.

Publishers: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 593.53

MMS ID: 991021647189702626