Jellyfish Blooms

Author : J.E. Purcell,W.M. Graham,Henri J. Dumont
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401007221

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Jellyfish Blooms: Ecological and Societal Importance by J.E. Purcell,W.M. Graham,Henri J. Dumont Pdf

`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.

Author : Lisa-ann Gershwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226213033

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Stung! by Lisa-ann Gershwin Pdf

Discusses why the jellyfish population has exploded in recent years and why their dominance is indicative of a declining ocean ecosystem.

Author : Kylie A. Pitt,Cathy H. Lucas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400770157

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Jellyfish Blooms by Kylie A. Pitt,Cathy H. Lucas Pdf

Jellyfish are one of the most conspicuous animals in our oceans and are renowned for their propensity to form spectacular blooms. The unique features of the biology and ecology of jellyfish that enable them to bloom also make them successful invasive species and, in a few places around the world, jellyfish have become problematic. As man increasingly populates the world’s coastlines, interactions between humans and jellyfish are rising, often to the detriment of coastal-based industries such as tourism, fishing and power generation. However we must not lose sight of the fact that jellyfish have been forming blooms in the oceans for at least 500 million years, and are an essential component of normal, healthy ocean ecosystems. Here many of the world’s leading jellyfish experts explore the science behind jellyfish blooms. We examine the unique features of jellyfish biology and ecology that cause populations to ‘bloom and bust’, and, using case studies, we show why jellyfish are important to coastal and ocean ecosystem function. We outline strategies coastal managers can use to mitigate the effects of blooms on coastal industries thereby enabling humans to coexist with these fascinating creatures. Finally we highlight how jellyfish benefit society; providing us with food and one of the most biomedically-important compounds discovered in the 20th century. ​

Author : Jennifer Purcell,Hermes Mianzan,Jessica R. Frost
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400753167

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Jellyfish Blooms IV by Jennifer Purcell,Hermes Mianzan,Jessica R. Frost Pdf

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 and original 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​

Author : Jennifer E. Purcell,Dror L. Angel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048195411

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Jellyfish Blooms: New Problems and Solutions by Jennifer E. Purcell,Dror L. Angel Pdf

This volume provides an identification key for the ephyrae of 18 common scyphozoan species, documents the Mediterranean-wide bloom of the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, and addresses the direct effects of ocean acidification on jellyfish.

Author : Kylie A. Pitt,Jennifer E. Purcell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402097492

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Jellyfish Blooms: Causes, Consequences and Recent Advances by Kylie A. Pitt,Jennifer E. Purcell Pdf

Jellyfish form spectacular population blooms and there is compelling evidence that jellyfish blooms are becoming more frequent and widespread. Blooms have enormous ecological, economic, and social impacts. For example, they have been implicated in the decline of commercial fisheries, they block the cooling water intakes of coastal industries and ships, and reduce the amenity of coastal waters for tourists. Blooms may be caused by overfishing, climate change, and coastal pollution, which all affect coastal waters around the world. Jellyfish Blooms: Causes, Consequences and Recent Advances presents reviews and original research articles written by the world’s leading experts on jellyfish. Topics covered include the evolution of jellyfish blooms, the impacts of climate change on jellyfish populations, advances in acoustic and molecular methods used to study jellyfish, the role of jellyfish in food webs and nutrient cycles, and the ecology of the benthic stages of the jellyfish life history. This is a valuable resource for students and professional marine biologists, fisheries scientists, oceanographers, and researchers of climate change.

Author : Ferdinando Boero
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fisheries
ISBN : UCSD:31822038855631

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Review of Jellyfish Blooms in the Mediterranean and Black Sea by Ferdinando Boero Pdf

It is clear that a new type of human approach to marine ecosystems is needed to confront phenomena such as jellyfish blooms. This document provides an updated overview of this phenomenon in the Mediterranean and Black Sea and illustrates how the problem is affecting societies. It reviews current knowledge on gelatinous plankton in the affected region, providing a framework for its inclusion into fisheries science and the management of human activities such as tourism and coastal development. Fact sheets on the most important gelatinous plankters of the Mediterranean and Black Seas are included as an appendix.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Invertebrate populations
ISBN : UVA:35007000214506

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Jellyfish Blooms in the Mediterranean by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lisa-ann Gershwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226287706

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Jellyfish by Lisa-ann Gershwin Pdf

An introduction to these bizarre and beautiful creatures of the sea, filled with color photos and illustrations: “Fascinating.”—Boing Boing Jellyfish are the oldest multi-organed life form on the planet, having inhabited the ocean for more than five hundred million years. With their undulating umbrella-shaped bells and sprawling tentacles, they are compelling and gorgeous, strange and dangerous. In many places they’re also vastly increasing in number, and these population blooms may be an ominous indicator of the rising temperatures and toxicity of the oceans. Jellyfish presents these aquarium favorites in all their glory. Fifty unique species, from the purple people eater to black sea nettles, are presented in stunning photos along with the most current scientific information on their anatomy, history, distribution, position in the water, and environmental status. Foremost jellyfish expert Lisa-ann Gershwin provides an insightful look at the natural history and biology of each of these spellbinding creatures, plus a timely take on their place in the rapidly changing and deteriorating condition of the oceans. Learn about immortal jellyfish who live and die and live again—as well as those who camouflage themselves amid sea grasses and shells, hiding in plain sight. Discover the jellyfish that’s the world’s most venomous animal, and the jellyfish that helped scientists win the Nobel Prize. They’re all here and more in this delightful volume. “A thorough coverage of jellyfish history, biology and ecology. Gershwin, a marine biologist who has discovered over 200 new species of jellyfish, does an excellent job of combining a compelling narrative of 50 different jellyfish with luscious, I-can’t-believe-they’re-real photos.”—Boing Boing

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Jellyfishes
ISBN : UCAL:$B655207

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Jellyfish Control by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation Pdf

Committee Serial No. 89-28. Considers H.R. 11475 and similar H.R. 11507 and H.R. 16634, to authorize the Interior Dept to provide financial and technical aid to states for study and control of jellyfish.

Author : Kylie A. Pitt,Jennifer E. Purcell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9048181992

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Jellyfish Blooms: Causes, Consequences and Recent Advances by Kylie A. Pitt,Jennifer E. Purcell Pdf

Jellyfish form spectacular population blooms and there is compelling evidence that jellyfish blooms are becoming more frequent and widespread. Blooms have enormous ecological, economic, and social impacts. For example, they have been implicated in the decline of commercial fisheries, they block the cooling water intakes of coastal industries and ships, and reduce the amenity of coastal waters for tourists. Blooms may be caused by overfishing, climate change, and coastal pollution, which all affect coastal waters around the world. Jellyfish Blooms: Causes, Consequences and Recent Advances presents reviews and original research articles written by the world’s leading experts on jellyfish. Topics covered include the evolution of jellyfish blooms, the impacts of climate change on jellyfish populations, advances in acoustic and molecular methods used to study jellyfish, the role of jellyfish in food webs and nutrient cycles, and the ecology of the benthic stages of the jellyfish life history. This is a valuable resource for students and professional marine biologists, fisheries scientists, oceanographers, and researchers of climate change.

Author : Iain Suthers,David Rissik,Anthony Richardson
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781486308811

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Plankton by Iain Suthers,David Rissik,Anthony Richardson Pdf

Healthy waterways and oceans are essential for our increasingly urbanised world. Yet monitoring water quality in aquatic environments is a challenge, as it varies from hour to hour due to stormwater and currents. Being at the base of the aquatic food web and present in huge numbers, plankton are strongly influenced by changes in environment and provide an indication of water quality integrated over days and weeks. Plankton are the aquatic version of a canary in a coal mine. They are also vital for our existence, providing not only food for fish, seabirds, seals and sharks, but producing oxygen, cycling nutrients, processing pollutants, and removing carbon dioxide from our atmosphere. This Second Edition of Plankton is a fully updated introduction to the biology, ecology and identification of plankton and their use in monitoring water quality. It includes expanded, illustrated descriptions of all major groups of freshwater, coastal and marine phytoplankton and zooplankton and a new chapter on teaching science using plankton. Best practice methods for plankton sampling and monitoring programs are presented using case studies, along with explanations of how to analyse and interpret sampling data. Plankton is an invaluable reference for teachers and students, environmental managers, ecologists, estuary and catchment management committees, and coastal engineers.

Author : R. Kerry Turner,Marije Schaafsma
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319172149

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Coastal Zones Ecosystem Services by R. Kerry Turner,Marije Schaafsma Pdf

This book applies the ‘ecosystem services’ framework to coastal environments, showing how it could facilitate an adaptive management strategy. The contributors describe a decision support system (DSS) based on the 3 Ps – pluralism, pragmatism and precaution – that leads to a more flexible, ‘learn by doing’ approach to the stewardship of coastal environments. The book lays out a “Balance Sheets Approach” to formatting, interrogating and presenting data and findings. The opening chapter defines coastal zones, their characteristics and natural resources, and describes their complex and dynamic nature. The chapter shows that large-scale trends and pressures have led to a global loss of 50% of marshes, leading to significant declines in biodiversity and habitat. Part I presents a conceptual framework, describes natural science techniques for coastal and shelf modeling, and describes valuation of ecosystem services. Part II outlines practical ecosystem indicators for coastal and marine ecosystem services, reviews literature on valuation of coastal and marine ecosystem services, explores scenarios, outlines marine and coastal ecosystem services data and offers tools for incorporating data into decision-making. PART III offers case studies including one linking the ecosystem services of Marine Protected Areas to benefits in human wellbeing; and another on valuing blue carbon captured by oceans and coastal ecosystems. Also included are a study of managed realignments and the English coastline and their value estimate transferability; and studies of the impact of jellyfish blooms on recreation in the UK and on fisheries in Italy.

Author : William Cheung,Yoshitaka Ota,Andres Cisneros-Montemayor
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128179468

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Predicting Future Oceans by William Cheung,Yoshitaka Ota,Andres Cisneros-Montemayor Pdf

Predicting Future Oceans: Sustainability of Ocean and Human Systems Amidst Global Environmental Change provides a synthesis of our knowledge of the future state of the oceans. The editors undertake the challenge of integrating diverse perspectives—from oceanography to anthropology—to exhibit the changes in ecological conditions and their socioeconomic implications. Each contributing author provides a novel perspective, with the book as a whole collating scholarly understandings of future oceans and coastal communities across the world. The diverse perspectives, syntheses and state-of-the-art natural and social sciences contributions are led by past and current research fellows and principal investigators of the Nereus Program network. This includes members at 17 leading research institutes, addressing themes such as oceanography, biodiversity, fisheries, mariculture production, economics, pollution, public health and marine policy. This book is a comprehensive resource for senior undergraduate and postgraduate readers studying social and natural science, as well as practitioners working in the field of natural resources management and marine conservation. Provides a synthesis of our knowledge on the future state of the oceans Includes recommendations on how to move forwards Highlights key social aspects linked to ocean ecosystems, including health, equity and sovereignty

Author : Adrienne M. S. Correa,Nancy Knowlton,Joshua D. Voss,Daniel M. Holstein,Rowan C. Martindale
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889713691

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Gulf of Mexico Reefs: Past, Present and Future by Adrienne M. S. Correa,Nancy Knowlton,Joshua D. Voss,Daniel M. Holstein,Rowan C. Martindale Pdf