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Verónica Fuentes
English
Freshwater & Marine Ecology
Marine & Freshwater Sciences
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Temperature effects on asexual reproduction rates of scyphozoan species from the northwest Mediterranean Sea
In recent decades, many areas worldwide have experienced mass occurrences of jellyfish. To determine how temperature may affect jellyfish populations in the northwest (NW) Mediterranean Sea, we maintained poly...
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Use of respiration rates of scyphozoan jellyfish to estimate their effects on the food web
One of the main objectives of research on jellyfish is to determine their effects on the food web. They are voracious consumers that have similar diets to those of zooplanktivorous fish, as well as eating micr...
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Planktonic cnidarian distribution and feeding of Pelagia noctiluca in the NW Mediterranean Sea
Pelagic cnidarians are important consumers of zooplankton and ichthyoplankton in the world’s oceans, and thus harm fisheries as competitors and predators of fish. This study examined the inshore-offshore distr...
