[CONTENTS]

Foreword by Sylvia Earle

Introduction

PART I: JELLYFISH BEHAVING BADLY

1. At the Mercy of Jellyfish

2. Some Astonishing Ecological Impacts

3. Jellyfish Completely Out of Control

PART II: JELLYFISH, PLANETARY DOOM, AND OTHER TRIVIA

4. Jellyfish: The Basics

5. Overview of Ecosystem Perturbations

6. Overfishing: A Powerful Agent of Ecosystem Change

7. Eutrophication Almost Always Leads to Jellyfish

8. Pollution Destabilizes Ecosystems

9. Biopollution: The Twelfth Plague

10. Climate Change Changes Everything

PART III: THE WEEDS SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH

11. The Allee Effect, Trophic Cascades, and Shifting Baselines

12. The Jellyfish Double Whammy

13. High-Energy and Low-Energy Ecosystems

PART IV: THE OCEANS ARE DYING TO TELL US SOMETHING

14. Ocean Acidification: The “New” Problem

15. The Rise of Slime

Acknowledgments

Appendix

Glossary of Terms

Some Practical Conversions

References

Index