Swimming depths of the giant jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai investigated using pop-up archival transmitting tags and ultrasonic pingers

Fisheries Science

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 947-956

  Honda, Naoto ^a,d   Watanabe, Toshihiro ^a,b   Matsushita, Yoshiki ^c  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN FISHERIES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythms; Giant jellyfish (Nemopilema nomurai); Pop up archival transmitting tag; Swimming depth; Ultrasonic pinger; Vertical movement

Indexed keywords

NEMOPILEMA NOMURAI; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 67849086687     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: 14442906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12562-009-0114-0     Document Type: Article

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