Jellyfish Blooms In The Mediterranean

Author : Ferdinando Boero
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Jennifer E. Purcell,Dror L. Angel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,6 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,Cathy H. Lucas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : J.E. Purcell,W.M. Graham,Henri J. Dumont
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Jennifer Purcell,Hermes Mianzan,Jessica R. Frost
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Lisa-ann Gershwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Invertebrate populations
ISBN : UVA:35007000214506

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Jellyfish Blooms in the Mediterranean by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ferdinando Boero
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fisheries
ISBN : 9251074577

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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 : Tatjana Argamante
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781291308594

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Jellyfish in the Northern Adriatic Sea - photos by Tatjana Argamante Pdf

This is a photobook about fascinating sea creatures, the jellyfish, photographed in the Northern Adriatic Sea, in front of the beach of Jesolo Lido.The pictures are real , they have not been digitally manipulated

Author : Kylie A. Pitt,Jennifer E. Purcell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Antonella Leone,Gian Luigi Mariottini,Stefano Piraino
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039432080

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Jellyfish and Polyps by Antonella Leone,Gian Luigi Mariottini,Stefano Piraino Pdf

This Special Issue of Marine Drugs gathers recent investigations on the proteomes, metabolomes, transcriptomes, and the associated microbiomes of marine jellyfish and polyps, including bioactivity studies of their compounds and more generally, on their biotechnological potential, witnessing the increasingly recognized importance of Cnidaria as a largely untapped Blue Growth resource for new drug discovery. These researches evoke the outstanding ecological importance of cnidarians in marine ecosystems worldwide, calling for a global monitoring and conservation of marine biodiversity, so that the biotechnological exploitation of marine living resources will be carried out to conserve and sustainably use the natural capital of the oceans.

Author : Paulo A.L.D. Nunes,Lisa Emelia Svensson,Anil Markandya
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786430724

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Handbook on the Economics and Management of Sustainable Oceans by Paulo A.L.D. Nunes,Lisa Emelia Svensson,Anil Markandya Pdf

The trans-disciplinary thematic areas of oceans management and policy require stocktaking of the state of knowledge on ecosystem services being derived from coastal and marine areas. Recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) especially Goals 14 and 15 explicitly focus on this. This Handbook brings together a carefully chosen set of world-class contributions from ecology, economics, and other development science and attempts to provide policy relevant scientific information on ecosystem services from marine and coastal ecosystems, nuances of economic valuation, relevant legal and sociological response policies for effective management of marine areas for enhanced human well being. The contributors focus on the possible nexus of science-society and science-policy with the objective of informing on decision makers of the governmental agencies, business and industry and civil society in general with respect to sustainable management of Oceans.

Author : M.N. Arai
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400914971

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A Functional Biology of Scyphozoa by M.N. Arai Pdf

Scyphozoa have attracted the attention of many types of people. Naturalists watch their graceful locomotion. Fishermen may dread the swarms which can prevent fishing or eat larval fish. Bathers retreat from the water if they are stung. People from some Asiatic countries eat the medusae. Comparative physiologists examine them as possibly simple models for the functioning of various systems. This book integrates data from those and other investigations into a functional biology of scyphozoa. It will emphasize the wide range of adaptive responses possible in these morphologically relatively simple animals. The book will concentrate on the research of the last 35 years, partly because there has been a rapid expansion of knowledge during that period, and partly because much of the previous work was summarized by books published between 1961 and 1970. Bibliographies of papers on scyphozoa were included in Mayer (1910) and Kramp (1961). Taxonomic diagnoses are also included in those monographs, as well as in a monograph on the scyphomedusae of the USSR published by Naumov (Naumov, 1961). Most impor tantly, a genenttion of scyphozoan workers has used as its 'bible' the monograph by F.S.Russell (1970) The Medusae of the British Isles. In spite of its restrictive title, his book reviews most of the information on the biology of scyphozoa up to that date.

Author : Malgorzata Kloc,Jacek Z. Kubiak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319924861

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Marine Organisms as Model Systems in Biology and Medicine by Malgorzata Kloc,Jacek Z. Kubiak Pdf

This book highlights the potential advantages of using marine invertebrates like tunicates, echinoderms, sponges and cephalopods as models in both biological and medical research. Bioactive compounds found in marine organisms possess antibacterial, antifungal, anti-diabetic and anti-inflammatory properties, and can affect the immune and nervous systems. Despite substantial research on the medicinal attributes of various marine invertebrates, they are still very much underrepresented in scientific literature: the majority of cell, developmental and evolutionary scientific journals only publish research conducted on a few well-known model systems like Drosophila melanogaster or Xenopus laevis. Addressing that gap, this book introduces readers to new model organisms like starfish or nemertera. By showing their benefits with regard to regeneration, stem cell research and Evo-Devo, the authors provide a cross-sectional view encompassing various disciplines of biological research. As such, this book will not only appeal to scientists currently working on marine organisms, but will also inspire future generations to pursue research of their own.

Author : Juli Berwald
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780735211278

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Spineless by Juli Berwald Pdf

"A book full of wonders" —Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk "Witty, insightful. . . .The story of jellyfish. . . is a significant part of the environmental story. Berwald's engaging account of these delicate, often ignored creatures shows how much they matter to our oceans' future." —New York Times Book Review Jellyfish have been swimming in our oceans for well over half a billion years, longer than any other animal that lives on the planet. They make a venom so toxic it can kill a human in three minutes. Their sting—microscopic spears that pierce with five million times the acceleration of gravity—is the fastest known motion in the animal kingdom. Made of roughly 95 percent water, some jellies are barely perceptible virtuosos of disguise, while others glow with a luminescence that has revolutionized biotechnology. Yet until recently, jellyfish were largely ignored by science, and they remain among the most poorly understood of ocean dwellers. More than a decade ago, Juli Berwald left a career in ocean science to raise a family in landlocked Austin, Texas, but jellyfish drew her back to the sea. Recent, massive blooms of billions of jellyfish have clogged power plants, decimated fisheries, and caused millions of dollars of damage. Driven by questions about how overfishing, coastal development, and climate change were contributing to a jellyfish population explosion, Juli embarked on a scientific odyssey. She traveled the globe to meet the biologists who devote their careers to jellies, hitched rides on Japanese fishing boats to see giant jellyfish in the wild, raised jellyfish in her dining room, and throughout it all marveled at the complexity of these alluring and ominous biological wonders. Gracefully blending personal memoir with crystal-clear distillations of science, Spineless is the story of how Juli learned to navigate and ultimately embrace her ambition, her curiosity, and her passion for the natural world. She discovers that jellyfish science is more than just a quest for answers. It’s a call to realize our collective responsibility for the planet we share.