Jellyfish Blooms: Ecological and Societal Importance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Jellyfish and Human Enterprise: Fisheries and Tourism

   1. Medical aspects of jellyfish envenomation: pathogenesis, case reporting and therapy

      • Joseph W. Burnett

      Pages 1-9

   2. Jellyfish as food

      • Y-H. Peggy Hsieh, Fui-Ming Leong, Jack Rudloe

      Pages 11-17

   3. Jellyfish fisheries in southeast Asia

      • Makoto Omori, Eiji Nakano

      Pages 19-26

   4. Interactions of pelagic cnidarians and ctenophores with fish: a review

      • Jennifer E. Purcell, Mary N. Arai

      Pages 27-44

   5. Feeding on survival-food: gelatinous plankton as a source of food for anchovies

      • H. Mianzan, M. Pájaro, G. Alvarez Colombo, A. Madirolas

      Pages 45-53

3. Jellyfish and Changing Ecosystems

   1. Jellyfish blooms: are populations increasing globally in response to changing ocean conditions?

      • Claudia E. Mills

      Pages 55-68

   2. Pelagic coelenterates and eutrophication: a review

      • Mary N. Arai

      Pages 69-87

   3. Effects of low dissolved oxygen on survival and asexual reproduction of scyphozoan polyps (Chrysaora quinquecirrha)

      • Robert H. Condon, Mary Beth Decker, Jennifer E. Purcell

      Pages 89-95

   4. Numerical increases and distributional shifts of Chrysaora quinquecirrha (Desor) and Aurelia aurita (Linné) (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) in the northern Gulf of Mexico

      • W. M. Graham

      Pages 97-111

   5. Timing and size of blooms of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in relation to temperature in Narragansett Bay, RI

      • Barbara K. Sullivan, Donna Van Keuren, Michael Clancy

      Pages 113-120

   6. The impact of El Niño events on populations of mesopelagic hydromedusae

      • Kevin A. Raskoff

      Pages 121-129

   7. Jellyfish swarms, tourists, and the Christ-child

      • Mike N. Dawson, Laura E. Martin, Lolita K. Penland

      Pages 131-144

   8. The ctenophore Mnemiopsis in native and exotic habitats: U.S. estuaries versus the Black Sea basin

      • Jennifer E. Purcell, Tamara A. Shiganova, Mary Beth Decker, Edward D. Houde

      Pages 145-176

   9. Chemical composition, respiration and feeding rates of the new alien ctenophore, Beroe ovata, in the Black Sea

      • G. A. Finenko, B. E. Anninsky, Z. A. Romanova, G. I. Abolmasova, A. E. Kideys

      Pages 177-186

   10. The new invader Beroe ovata Mayer 1912 and its effect on the ecosystem in the northeastern Black Sea

       • Tamara A. Shiganova, Yulia V. Bulgakova, Stanislav P. Volovik, Zinaida A. Mirzoyan, Sergey I. Dudkin

       Pages 187-197

4. Physical/Hydrodynamic Interactions With Jellyfish

   1. A physical context for gelatinous zooplankton aggregations: a review

      • William M. Graham, Fransesc Pagès, William M. Hamner

      Pages 199-212

   2. Developing jellyfish strategy hypotheses using circulation models

      • Donald R. Johnson, Harriet M. Perry, W. David Burke

      Pages 213-221

   3. Flow and prey capture by the scyphomedusa Phyllorhiza punctata von Lendenfeld, 1884

      • Isabella D’Ambra, John H. Costello, Flegra Bentivegna

      Pages 223-227

5. Jellyfish Reproduction and Population Biology

   1. Reproduction and life history strategies of the common jellyfish, Aurelia aurita, in relation to its ambient environment

      • Cathy H. Lucas

      Pages 229-246

`Jellyfish', a group that includes scyphomedusae, hydromedusae, siphonophores and ctenophores, are important zooplankton predators throughout the world's estuaries and oceans. These beautiful creatures have come to public attention as featured exhibits in aquaria and in news headlines as invaders and as providers of genes used in biomedical research. Nevertheless, jellyfish are generally considered to be nuisances because they interfere with human activities by stinging swimmers, clogging power plant intakes and nets of fishermen and fish farms, and competing with fish and eating fish eggs and larvae. There is concern that environmental changes such as global warming, eutrophication, and over-fishing may result in increased jellyfish populations.
The literature reviews and research papers in this volume explore the interactions between jellyfish and humans. Papers cover the medical aspects of jellyfish stings, jellyfish as human food and jellyfish fisheries, interactions of jellyfish and fish, effects of environmental changes on jellyfish, effects of introduced ctenophores on the Black Sea ecosystem, factors causing increases or concentrations of jellyfish, and others aspects of jellyfish ecology. This is an important reference for students and professional marine biologists, oceanographers, fishery scientists, and aquarists.

• Eutrophication
• Ocean
• aquaria
• biology
• ecology
• ecosystem
• environment
• fish
• food
• genetics
• marine
• parasites
• plankton
• temperature
• air pollution and air quality

• Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Lab., University of Maryland, Cambridge, USA

  J. E. Purcell

• Dauphin Island Sea Lab., Dauphin Island, USA

  W. M. Graham

• Institute of Animal Ecology, University of Ghent, Belgium

  H. J. Dumont

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