Jellyfish Blooms IV

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Preface: Jellyfish blooms: interactions with humans and fisheries

   • Hermes Mianzan, Jennifer E. Purcell, Jessica R. Frost

   Pages 1-2

3. Increasing jellyfish populations: trends in Large Marine Ecosystems

   • Lucas Brotz, William W. L. Cheung, Kristin Kleisner, Evgeny Pakhomov, Daniel Pauly

   Pages 3-20

4. Transitions of Mnemiopsis leidyi (Ctenophora: Lobata) from a native to an exotic species: a review

   • J. H. Costello, K. M. Bayha, H. W. Mianzan, T. A. Shiganova, J. E. Purcell

   Pages 21-46

5. Foods of Velella velella (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) in algal rafts and its distribution in Irish seas

   • Jennifer E. Purcell, Emmett Clarkin, Thomas K. Doyle

   Pages 47-55

6. Do Staurozoa bloom? A review of stauromedusan population biology

   • Lucília S. Miranda, André C. Morandini, Antonio C. Marques

   Pages 57-67

7. Comparative phylogeography of meroplanktonic species, Aurelia spp. and Rhizostoma pulmo (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) in European Seas

   • Andreja Ramšak, Katja Stopar, Alenka Malej

   Pages 69-80

8. Associations of large jellyfish distributions with temperature and salinity in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea

   • Fang Zhang, Song Sun, Xianshi Jin, Chaolun Li

   Pages 81-96

9. Limnocnida tanganyicae medusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa): a semiautonomous microcosm in the food web of Lake Tanganyika

   • Kalevi Salonen, Pia Högmander, Victor Langenberg, Hannu Mölsä, Jouko Sarvala, Anne Tarvainen et al.

   Pages 97-112

10. Large medusae in surface waters of the Northern California Current: variability in relation to environmental conditions

    • Cynthia L. Suchman, Richard D. Brodeur, Elizabeth A. Daly, Robert L. Emmett

    Pages 113-125

11. Effects of climate warming on strobilation and ephyra production of North Sea scyphozoan jellyfish

    • Sabine Holst

    Pages 127-140

12. Ecological aspects of early life stages of Cotylorhiza tuberculata (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomae) affecting its pelagic population success

    • Diana Astorga, Javier Ruiz, Laura Prieto

    Pages 141-155

13. The potential role of podocysts in perpetuation of the common jellyfish Aurelia aurita s.l. (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) in anthropogenically perturbed coastal waters

    • Htun Thein, Hideki Ikeda, Shin-ichi Uye

    Pages 157-167

14. Temperature effects on asexual reproduction rates of scyphozoan species from the northwest Mediterranean Sea

    • Jennifer E. Purcell, Dacha Atienza, Verónica Fuentes, Alejandro Olariaga, Uxue Tilves, Chandler Colahan et al.

    Pages 169-180

15. Predator-induced vertical behavior of a ctenophore

    • Josefin Titelman, Lars Johan Hansson, Trygve Nilsen, Sean P. Colin, John H. Costello

    Pages 181-187

16. Predation potential of the jellyfish Drymonema larsoni Bayha & Dawson (Scyphozoa: Drymonematidae) on the moon jellyfish Aurelia sp. in the northern Gulf of Mexico

    • Keith M. Bayha, William M. Graham, John E. Higgins III, Heather A. Fletcher

    Pages 189-197

17. Nudibranch predation and dietary preference for the polyps of Aurelia labiata (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa)

    • Richard A. Hoover, Ruth Armour, Ian Dow, Jennifer E. Purcell

    Pages 199-213

18. Parasitism (Trematoda, Digenea) in medusae from the southwestern Atlantic Ocean: medusa hosts, parasite prevalences, and ecological implications

    • Luciana M. Diaz Briz, Sergio R. Martorelli, Gabriel N. Genzano, Hermes W. Mianzan

    Pages 215-226

19. Jelly-falls historic and recent observations: a review to drive future research directions

    • Mario Lebrato, Kylie A. Pitt, Andrew K. Sweetman, Daniel O. B. Jones, Joan E. Cartes, Andreas Oschlies et al.

    Pages 227-245

20. Pulse perturbations from bacterial decomposition of Chrysaora quinquecirrha (Scyphozoa: Pelagiidae)

    • Jessica R. Frost, Charles A. Jacoby, Thomas K. Frazer, Andrew R. Zimmerman

    Pages 247-256

Jellyfish generally are considered to be nuisances because they interfere with human activities by stinging swimmers, clogging power plant intakes and nets of fishermen, killing fish in aquaculture pens, and being both predators and competitors of fish. There is concern that environmental changes such as global warming, eutrophication, over-fishing, and coastal construction may benefit jellyfish populations. During this past decade following the first Jellyfish Blooms volume, some species have bloomed more frequently, expanded their range, and caused more problems for humans. Mnemiopsis leidyi, the ctenophore that invaded the Black Sea in the 1980s and damaged fisheries, now also blooms in the North, Baltic, and Mediterranean seas. Nemopilema nomurai, a giant Asian jellyfish, has bloomed frequently during this decade, causing severe damage to the Japanese fishing industry. Jellyfish Blooms: Interactions with Humans and Fisheries is the fourth volume in this series. Syntheses andoriginal research articles address the question if jellyfish have increased globally and what factors may have contributed to the abundance of jellyfish. This volume is the most extensive to date, containing papers from all continents (except Antarctica) on scyphozoans, hydrozoans, cubozoans, staurozoans, and ctenophores, and on the fate of jellyfish blooms. This is a key reference for students and professional marine biologists, oceanographers, and fishery scientists and managers. Previously published in Hydrobiologia, vol. 690, 2012​

• Jellyfish
• Jellyfish and climate warming
• Jellyfish distributions
• Medusae
• Meroplanktonic species
• Scyphozoans and ctenophores
• marine and freshwater sciences

• Western Washington University, Shannon Point Marine Center, Anacortes, USA

  Jennifer Purcell

• INIDEP, Mar del Plata, Argentina

  Hermes Mianzan

• School of Forest Resources and Conservat, Fisheries and Aquatic Science Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

  Jesscia R. Frost

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