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Verónica Fuentes
Life Sciences
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Pelagia noctiluca in the Mediterranean Sea
Over recent decades, man’s expanding influence on the oceans has begun to cause change in some regions, including in the Mediterranean Sea. New proliferations of jellyfish may be occurring in the Mediterranean...
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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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Amphinema gordini sp. nov., a new benthopelagic medusa (Cnidaria:Hydrozoa:Anthomedusae:Pandeidae) collected by sediment traps off the northern Chilean coast
Amphinema gordini, a new species of pandeid anthomedusa, is described from one holotype and several paratypes found in perfect condition in deep-water (883 m depth) sediment trap samples recovere...
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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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Life cycle of the jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae) and its distribution, seasonality and inter-annual variability along the Catalan coast and the Mar Menor (Spain, NW Mediterranean)
Rhizostoma pulmo is one of the most abundant scyphomedusae along the Mediterranean coasts. To understand changes in the population densities of the medusa stage and its relationship with the benthic stage, we des...
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Open AccessUse 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...
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A new species of shallow-water sea pen (Octocorallia: Pennatulacea: Kophobelemnidae) from Antarctica
The pennatulacean genus Malacobelemnon has previously been considered to be distributed in the Western Indian and western Pacific Oceans, with one described species and another possible undescribed species from S...
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A new pelagic Alteutha (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from Potter Cove, King George Island, Antarctica—description, ecology and information on its year round distribution
A new harpacticoid copepod species was found during a year round plankton survey in a shallow Antarctic bay. Both the dominant Calanoida and Cyclopoida and the often neglected Harpacticoida, their abundances i...
