Jellyfish Blooms: Causes, Consequences and Recent Advances [Hardcover]

Jellyfish form spectacular population blooms and there is compelling evidence that jellyfish blooms are becoming more frequent and widespread. Blooms have enormous ecological, economic, and social impacts. For example, they have been implicated in the decline of commercial fisheries, they block the cooling water intakes of coastal industries and ships, and reduce the amenity of coastal waters for tourists. Blooms may be caused by overfishing, climate change, and coastal pollution, which all affect coastal waters around the world.

Jellyfish Blooms: Causes, Consequences and Recent Advances presents reviews and original research articles written by the worlds leading experts on jellyfish. Topics covered include the evolution of jellyfish blooms, the impacts of climate change on jellyfish populations, advances in acoustic and molecular methods used to study jellyfish, the role of jellyfish in food webs and nutrient cycles, and the ecology of the benthic stages of the jellyfish life history. This is a valuable resource for students and professional marine biologists, fisheries scientists, oceanographers, and researchers of climate change.

Obituary: Francesc Pag?s (19622007).- Obituary: Francesc Pag?s (19622007).- 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, lÃ+