The broad-scale distribution of five jellyfish species across a temperate coastal environment

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 579, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-39

  Doyle, Thomas K ^a   Houghton, Jonathan D R ^b   Buckley, Sarah M ^a   Hays, Graeme C ^b   Davenport, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hydrographic regimes; Irish Sea; Rhizostomeae; Semaeostomeae

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; DATA ACQUISITION; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANTS (BOTANY);

HYDROGRAPHIC REGIMES; IRISH SEA; RHIZOSTOMEAE; SEMAEOSTOMEAE;

BIODIVERSITY;

COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HYDROGRAPHY; JELLYFISH; MIXING; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CELTIC SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; IRISH SEA; WESTERN EUROPE;

CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; HYDROIDA; RHIZOSTOMEAE; SCYPHOZOA; SEMAEOSTOMEAE;

EID: 33846990572     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0362-2     Document Type: Article

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