Beyond the Plankton Ecology Group (PEG) model: mechanisms driving plankton succession

U Sommer, R Adrian… - Annual review of …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The seasonal succession of plankton is an annually repeated process of community
assembly during which all major external factors and internal interactions shaping …

Jellyfish life histories: role of polyps in forming and maintaining scyphomedusa populations

CH Lucas, WM Graham, C Widmer - Advances in marine biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Large population fluctuations of jellyfish occur over a variety of temporal scales, from weekly
to seasonal, inter-annual and even decadal, with some regions of the world reported to be …

Effects of climate change on Mediterranean marine ecosystems: the case of the Catalan Sea

E Calvo, R Simó, R Coma, M Ribes, J Pascual… - Climate …, 2011 - int-res.com
The Catalan Sea, located between the eastern Iberian coast and the Balearic Islands, is a
representative portion of the western Mediterranean basin and provides a valuable case …

The Mediterranean Sea regime shift at the end of the 1980s, and intriguing parallelisms with other European basins

A Conversi, S Fonda Umani, T Peluso, JC Molinero… - Plos one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Regime shifts are abrupt changes encompassing a multitude of physical
properties and ecosystem variables, which lead to new regime conditions. Recent …

Claims that anthropogenic stressors facilitate jellyfish blooms have been amplified beyond the available evidence: a systematic review

KA Pitt, CH Lucas, RH Condon, CM Duarte… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The perception that anthropogenic stressors cause jellyfish blooms is widespread within the
scientific literature and media but robust evidence in support of these claims appears scarce …

Jellyfish populations in the Mediterranean Sea

L Brotz, D Pauly - Acta Adriatica, 2012 - acta.izor.hr
Knowledge of jellyfish populations in the Mediterranean Sea is rather extensive, due to a
combination of long-term datasets and interest relating to impacts on human activities. The …

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

JE Purcell, D Atienza, V Fuentes, A Olariaga… - Jellyfish Blooms IV …, 2012 - Springer
In recent decades, many areas worldwide have experienced mass occurrences of jellyfish.
To determine how temperature may affect jellyfish populations in the northwest (NW) …

Recurrence of bloom-forming scyphomedusae: wavelet analysis of a 200-year time series

T Kogovšek, B Bogunović, A Malej - Jellyfish blooms: new problems and …, 2010 - Springer
Four meroplanktonic scyphomedusae, Aurelia aurita, Chrysaora hysoscella, Cotylorhiza
tuberculata and Rhizostoma pulmo, and the holoplanktonic, non-resident Pelagia noctiluca …

Hawaiian albatrosses track interannual variability of marine habitats in the North Pacific

MA Kappes, SA Shaffer, Y Tremblay, DG Foley… - Progress in …, 2010 - Elsevier
We studied the foraging behavior and marine habitats used by Laysan (Phoebastria
immutabilis) and Black-footed (Phoebastria nigripes) Albatrosses, during four consecutive …

Have jellyfish in the Irish Sea benefited from climate change and overfishing?

CP Lynam, MKS Lilley, T Bastian… - Global Change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change and overfishing may lead to ecosystem instability and may benefit
nonexploited organisms such as jellyfish. In the Irish Sea, an increase in jellyfish abundance …