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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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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...