Jellyfish Blooms: Causes, Consequences and Recent Advances

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Pitt, Kylie A. (Editor), Purcell, Jennifer E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Series:Developments in Hydrobiology ; 206
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9749-2
Table of Contents:
  • Obituary: Francesc Pagès (1962-2007)
  • Obituary: Francesc Pagès (1962-2007)
  • Large Scale Approaches
  • The growth of jellyfishes
  • Extension of methods for jellyfish and ctenophore trophic ecology to large-scale research
  • Patterns of jellyfish abundance in the North Atlantic
  • Jellyfish in ecosystems, online databases, and ecosystem models
  • Quantifying movement of the tropical Australian cubozoan Chironex fleckeri using acoustic telemetry
  • Acoustic survey of a jellyfish- dominated ecosystem (Mljet Island, Croatia)
  • Stock enhancement of the edible jellyfish (Rhopilema esculentum Kishinouye) in Liaodong Bay, China: a review
  • Trophic Ecology and Nutrient Dynamics
  • Stable isotope and fatty acid tracers in energy and nutrient studies of jellyfish: a review
  • Influence of jellyfish blooms on carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling and plankton production
  • Influence of decomposing jellyfish on the sediment oxygen demand and nutrient dynamics
  • Evolution and Molecular Approaches
  • A review and synthesis on the systematics and evolution of jellyfish blooms: advantageous aggregations and adaptive assemblages
  • A character-based analysis of the evolution of jellyfish blooms: adaptation and exaptation
  • A new Taqman© PCR-based method for the detection and identification of scyphozoan jellyfish polyps
  • Comparative analysis of nuclear ribosomal DNA from the moon jelly Aurelia sp.1 (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) with characterizations of the 18S, 28S genes, and the intergenic spacer (IGS)
  • Benthic Stages of the Life History
  • The potential importance of podocysts to the formation of scyphozoan blooms: a review
  • Effects of temperature and light intensity on asexual reproduction of the scyphozoan, Aurelia aurita (L.) in Taiwan
  • Substrate preferences of scyphozoan Aurelia labiata polyps among common dock-building materials
  • General Biology and Ecology
  • Ontogenetic changes in the ecological function of the association behavior between jack mackerel Trachurus japonicus and jellyfish
  • Kinematic properties of the jellyfish Aurelia sp.