Widespread occurrence of the jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca in Irish coastal and shelf waters

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 963-968

  Doyle, Thomas K ^a   De Haas, Henk ^b   Cotton, Don ^c   Dorschel, Boris ^a   Cummins, Valerie ^a   Houghton, Jonathan D R ^d   Davenport, John ^a   Hays, Graeme C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JELLYFISH; OCEANOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); IRISH SEA;

PELAGIA NOCTILUCA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 49449086160     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: 14643774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbn052     Document Type: Article

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