Jellyfish Blooms: Ecological and Societal Importance

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

Chapter 2 Jellyfish as food

Chapter 3 Jellyfish fisheries in southeast Asia

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

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

Chapter 6 Jellyfish blooms: are populations increasing globally in response to changing ocean conditions?

Chapter 7 Pelagic coelenterates and eutrophication: a review

Chapter 9 Numerical increases and distributional shifts of Chrysaora quinquecirrha (Desor) and Aurelia aurita (Linné) (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Chapter 10 Timing and size of blooms of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in relation to temperature in Narragansett Bay, RI

Chapter 11 The impact of El Niño events on populations of mesopelagic hydromedusae

Chapter 12 Jellyfish swarms, tourists, and the Christ-child

Chapter 13 The ctenophore Mnemiopsis in native and exotic habitats: U.S. estuaries versus the Black Sea basin

Chapter 14 Chemical composition, respiration and feeding rates of the new alien ctenophore, Beroe ovata, in the Black Sea

Chapter 15 The new invader Beroe ovata Mayer 1912 and its effect on the ecosystem in the northeastern Black Sea

Chapter 16 A physical context for gelatinous zooplankton aggregations: a review

Chapter 17 Developing jellyfish strategy hypotheses using circulation models

Chapter 18 Flow and prey capture by the scyphomedusa Phyllorhiza punctata von Lendenfeld, 1884

Chapter 19 Reproduction and life history strategies of the common jellyfish, Aurelia aurita, in relation to its ambient environment

Chapter 20 In situ estimation of ephyrae liberated from polyps of Aurelia aurita using settling plates in Tokyo Bay, Japan

Chapter 21 Geographic variation and ecological adaptation in Aurelia (Scyphozoa, Semaeostomeae): some implications from molecular phylogenetics

Chapter 22 Observations on the distribution and relative abundance of the scyphomedusan Chrysaora hysoscella (Linné, 1766) and the hydrozoan Aequorea aequorea (Forskål, 1775) in the northern Benguela ecosystem

Chapter 23 A novel cilia-based feature within the food grooves of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis mccradyi Mayer

Chapter 24 Protistan epibionts of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis mccradyi Mayer

Chapter 25 Digenea parasites of jellyfish and ctenophores of the southern Atlantic

Chapter 26 Food and feeding of Aurelia aurita in Tokyo Bay with an analysis of stomach contents and a measurement of digestion times

Chapter 27 Distribution, abundance, behavior and metabolism of Periphylla periphylla, a mesopelagic coronate medusa in a Norwegian fjord