Advances in Rhizostomeaen Jellyfish Research

Klement Tockner is president of the Austrian Science Fund – FWF, full professor of Aquatic Ecology at the Freie Universität Berlin and former director of the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin. He received a PhD from the University of Vienna (1993) and a Titulary Professorship at ETH (2005). He is an internationally leading freshwater scientist, in particular in the research domains biodiversity, ecosystem science and environmental management. He was Editor in Chief of the journal Aquatic Sciences and is Subject Editor of the journal Ecosystems. He has published more than 250 scientific papers including 150 ISI papers. In 2009, he edited a comprehensive book on European Rivers (Rivers of Europe, Elsevier). Klement Tockner has successfully managed large inter- and transdisciplinary projects such as the EC-funded project BioFresh (www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu). He is member of several scientific committees and advisory boards and elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Germany Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina.

Preface

Götz B. Reinicke, Sabine Holst, André C. Morandini and Hjalmar Thiel

1. Max Egon THIEL’s monographs on Scyphozoa (Cnidaria) and a left-behind typescript on the Rhizostomeae

Götz B. Reinicke, Sabine Holst, André C. Morandini, Ilka Sötje, Ilka Straehler-Pohl, Amanda A. Wiesenthal, and Hjalmar Thiel

2. Morphology of Rhizostomeae jellyfishes: what is known and what we advanced since the 1970s

André C. Morandini

3. Approaches and findings in histological and micromorphological research on Rhizostomeae

Sabine Holst, Gisele R. Tiseo, Nicolas Djeghri, and Ilka Sötje

4. Life cycles and reproduction of Rhizostomeae

Agustín Schiariti, Sabine Holst, Gisele R. Tiseo, Hiroshi Miyake and André C. Morandini

5. Physiology and functional biology of Rhizostomeae jellyfish

Renato M. Nagata, Isabella D’Ambra, Chiara Lauritano, Guilherme M. von Montfort, Nicolas Djeghri, Mayara A. Jordano, Sean P. Colin, John H. Costello, and Valentina Leoni

6. Morphological and molecular data in the study of the evolution, population genetics and taxonomy of Rhizostomeae

Edgar Gamero-Mora, Jonathan W. Lawley, Maximiliano M. Maronna, Sérgio N. Stampar,

Adriana Muhlia-Almazan, and André C. Morandini

7. Ecology of Rhizostomeae

Delphine Thibault, Zafrir Kuplik, Laura Prieto, Michael Brown, Shin Uye, Tom Doyle, Kylie Pitt, William Fitt, Mark Gibbons and Angelica Enrique-Navarroc

8. Rhizostomes as a resource: The expanding exploitation of jellyfish by humans

Lucas Brotz, Dror L. Angel, Isabella D’Ambra, Angélica Enrique-Navarro, Chiara Lauritano, Delphine Thibault, and Laura Prieto