Jellyfish and ctenophore blooms coincide with human proliferations and environmental perturbations

JE Purcell - Annual review of marine science, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Human populations have been concentrated along and exploiting the coastal zones for
millennia. Of regions with the highest human impacts on the oceans, 6 of the top 10 have …

Review of climate change impacts on marine aquaculture in the UK and Ireland

R Callaway, AP Shinn, SE Grenfell… - Aquatic …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Marine aquaculture relies on coastal habitats that will be affected by climate change. This
review assesses current knowledge of the threats and opportunities of climate change for …

The biological pump in a high CO2 world

U Passow, CA Carlson - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2012 - int-res.com
The vertical separation of organic matter formation from respiration can lead to net carbon
sequestration within the ocean's interior, making the biological pump an important …

Benthic ecosystem determines jellyfish blooms by controlling the polyp colony development

W Zang, F Zhang, Y Sun, Z Xu, S Sun - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
The harmful irregular jellyfish blooms in recent years are difficult to be deciphered by macro
hydrographic condition changes. To fundamentally explain the dynamic of jellyfish …

Gelatinous zooplankton biomass in the global oceans: geographic variation and environmental drivers

CH Lucas, DOB Jones, CJ Hollyhead… - Global Ecology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Scientific debate regarding the future trends, and subsequent ecological,
biogeochemical and societal impacts, of gelatinous zooplankton (GZ) in a changing ocean is …

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 …

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) …

Jellyfish, forage fish, and the world's major fisheries

KL Robinson, JJ Ruzicka, MB Decker, RD Brodeur… - Oceanography, 2014 - JSTOR
ABSTRACT A majority of the world's largest net-based fisheries target planktivorous forage
fish that serve as a critical trophic link between the plankton and upper-level consumers …

Increase in frequency of nuclear power outages due to changing climate

A Ahmad - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
Climate-related changes have already affected operating conditions for different types of
energy system, in particular power plants. With more than three decades of data on …

Plankton lifeforms as a biodiversity indicator for regional-scale assessment of pelagic habitats for policy

A McQuatters-Gollop, A Atkinson, A Aubert, J Bedford… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Plankton are sensitive indicators of change and, at the base of marine food webs, they
underpin important ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and fisheries …