Keywords:
Aquatic biology.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
The most extensive volume yet in the series, this book explores whether jellyfish blooms have increased globally, and what factors may have contributed to the abundance of jellyfish. Covers scyphozoans, hydrozoans, cubozoans, staurozoans and ctenophores.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (289 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789400753167
Series Statement:
Developments in Hydrobiology Series ; v.220
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=2096781
DDC:
593.5/3
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface: Jellyfish blooms: interactions with humans and fisheries -- Increasing jellyfish populations: trends in Large Marine Ecosystems -- Transitions of Mnemiopsis leidyi (Ctenophora: Lobata) from a native to an exotic species: a review -- Foods of Velella velella (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) in algal rafts and its distribution in Irish seas -- Do Staurozoa bloom? A review of stauromedusan population biology -- Comparative phylogeography of meroplanktonic species, Aurelia spp. and Rhizostoma pulmo (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) in European Seas -- Associations of large jellyfish distributions with temperature and salinity in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea -- Limnocnida tanganyicae medusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa): a semiautonomous microcosm in the food web of Lake Tanganyika -- Large medusae in surface waters of the Northern California Current: variability in relation to environmental conditions -- Effects of climate warming on strobilation and ephyra production of North Sea scyphozoan jellyfish -- Ecological aspects of early life stages of Cotylorhiza tuberculata (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomae) affecting its pelagic population success -- The potential role of podocysts in perpetuation of the common jellyfish Aurelia aurita s.l. (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) in anthropogenically perturbed coastal waters -- Temperature effects on asexual reproduction rates of scyphozoan species from the northwest Mediterranean Sea -- Predator-induced vertical behavior of a ctenophore -- Predation potential of the jellyfish Drymonema larsoni Bayha & -- Dawson (Scyphozoa: Drymonematidae) on the moon jellyfish Aurelia sp. in the northern Gulf of Mexico -- Nudibranch predation and dietary preference for the polyps of Aurelia labiata (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa).
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Parasitism (Trematoda, Digenea) in medusae from the southwestern Atlantic Ocean: medusa hosts, parasite prevalences, and ecological implications -- Jelly-falls historic and recent observations: a review to drive future research directions -- Pulse perturbations from bacterial decomposition of Chrysaora quinquecirrha (Scyphozoa: Pelagiidae) -- Abundance patterns of cubozoans on and near the Great Barrier Reef -- Sources and movements of Chironex fleckeri medusae using statolith elemental chemistry -- Variation in soft tissue chemistry among scyphozoan and cubozoan jellyfishes from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
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