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Finfish vs jellyfish: complimentary feeding patterns allow threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus and common jellyfish Aurelia aurita to co-exist in a Danish cove
The threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus and the common jellyfish Aurelia aurita are keystone species in many marine ecosystems, including the shallow cove Kertinge Nor, in Denmark. Both species feed on ...
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Distribution and abundance of net-captured calycophoran siphonophores and other gelatinous zooplankton in the Sargasso Sea European eel spawning area
Gelatinous zooplankton (GZ) such as medusae, ctenophores, siphonophores, pyrosomes and salps are important components of oceanic pelagic communities and small calycophoran siphonophores (CS) are typically abun...
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Biology of Salpa thompsoni at the Chatham Rise, New Zealand: demography, growth, and diel vertical migration
The abundant pelagic tunicate Salpa thompsoni is a major grazer in the Southern Ocean (SO) with high ingestion rates, fast-sinking faecal pellets, and the potential to rapidly grow and form dense blooms. We inves...
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Gelatinous zooplankton of the Marshall Islands, Central Tropical Pacific: an inventory
Vast regions of the Central Pacific, inhabited by low-lying Micronesian nations, have been poorly studied for zooplankton. Atolls of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) have been surveyed before, during...
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Summer phenology of the sub-surface gelatinous zooplankton assemblage in two North-Western Icelandic fjords
The Arctic Ocean (including sub-Arctic margins) is one of the fastest changing ecosystems affected by climate change. However, much remains unknown about its ecosystematic functioning, trophic interactions, an...
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Open AccessPredicting the current and future global distribution of the invasive freshwater hydrozoan Craspedacusta sowerbii
The freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii is one of the most widespread invasive species, but its global distribution remains uncertain due to ephemeral appearances and general lack of information in variou...
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Gelatinous and soft-bodied zooplankton in the Northeast Pacific Ocean: Phosphorus content and potential resilience to phosphorus limitation
Marine ecosystems on continental shelves face multiple challenges due to anthropogenic disturbances, many of which can change the seawater stoichiometry (C:N:P) and consequently elemental ratios of phytoplankt...
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Biology and distribution of salps in the subarctic Northeast Pacific
Historical samples collected from 1985 to 2020 in coastal and open ocean regions of the Northeast Pacific were utilised to explore salp assemblage composition, morphometrics, and ontogeny of dominant species, ...
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Diversity of pelagic tunicates (Appendicularia and Thaliacea) from Cuba: a review
Gelatinous zooplankton (GZ), and pelagic tunicates specifically, plays key roles in marine ecosystems, contributing to diets of various predators and oceanic carbon cycling. Nevertheless, biological inventorie...
