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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...

    Jennifer E. Purcell, Dacha Atienza, Verónica Fuentes, Alejandro Olariaga… in Hydrobiologia (2012)

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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...

    Verónica Fuentes, Ilka Straehler-Pohl, Dacha Atienza, Ignacio Franco… in Marine Biology (2011)

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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...

    Jennifer E. Purcell, Verónica Fuentes, Dacha Atienza, Uxue Tilves… in Hydrobiologia (2010)

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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...

    Ana Sabatés, Francesc Pagès, Dacha Atienza, Verónica Fuentes… in Hydrobiologia (2010)

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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...

    Gritta Veit-Köhler, Verónica Fuentes in Hydrobiologia (2007)