Jellyfish Blooms: Causes, Consequences and Recent Advances

Obituary: Francesc Pagès (1962–2007).- Obituary: Francesc Pagès (1962–2007).- Large Scale Approaches.- The growth of jellyfishes.- Extension of methods for jellyfish and ctenophore trophic ecology to large-scale research.- Patterns of jellyfish abundance in the North Atlantic.- Jellyfish in ecosystems, online databases, and ecosystem models.- Quantifying movement of the tropical Australian cubozoan Chironex fleckeri using acoustic telemetry.- Acoustic survey of a jellyfish- dominated ecosystem (Mljet Island, Croatia).- Stock enhancement of the edible jellyfish (Rhopilema esculentum Kishinouye) in Liaodong Bay, China: a review.- Trophic Ecology and Nutrient Dynamics.- Stable isotope and fatty acid tracers in energy and nutrient studies of jellyfish: a review.- Influence of jellyfish blooms on carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling and plankton production.- Influence of decomposing jellyfish on the sediment oxygen demand and nutrient dynamics.- Evolution and Molecular Approaches.- A review and synthesis on the systematics and evolution of jellyfish blooms: advantageous aggregations and adaptive assemblages.- A character-based analysis of the evolution of jellyfish blooms: adaptation and exaptation.- A new Taqman© PCR-based method for the detection and identification of scyphozoan jellyfish polyps.- Comparative analysis of nuclear ribosomal DNA from the moon jelly Aurelia sp.1 (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) with characterizations of the 18S, 28S genes, and the intergenic spacer (IGS).- Benthic Stages of the Life History.- The potential importance of podocysts to the formation of scyphozoan blooms: a review.- Effects of temperature and light intensity on asexual reproduction of the scyphozoan, Aurelia aurita (L.) in Taiwan.- Substrate preferences of scyphozoan Aurelialabiata polyps among common dock-building materials.- General Biology and Ecology.- Ontogenetic changes in the ecological function of the association behavior between jack mackerel Trachurus japonicus and jellyfish.- Kinematic properties of the jellyfish Aurelia sp.