Jellyfish blooms: Are populations increasing globally in response to changing ocean conditions?

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 451, Issue , 2001, Pages 55-68

  Mills, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cnidaria; Ctenophora; Hydromedusae; Nonindigenous species; Scyphomedusae; Siphonophore

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL ZONES; ECOLOGY; NUTRITION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CUMULATIVE EFFECTS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

CLIMATE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION OUTBREAK; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 0035872266     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011888006302     Document Type: Conference Paper

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