Effects of low salinity on settlement and strobilation of scyphozoa (Cnidaria): Is the lion's mane Cyanea capillata (L.) able to reproduce in the brackish Baltic Sea?

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 645, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-68

  Holst, Sabine ^a   Jarms, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyanea capillata; Jellyfish; Salinity; Scyphozoa; Settlement; Strobilation

Indexed keywords

AURELIA; BALTIC SEA; BRACKISH WATER; CNIDARIA; FLOATING SUBSTRATE; GERMAN BIGHT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW SALINITY; LOW-SALINITY WATER; MEDUSAE; NORTH SEA; WATER MASS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

BRACKISH WATER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; JELLYFISH; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SURVIVAL; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; KIEL BIGHT;

AURELIA AURITA; CHRYSAORA HYSOSCELLA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; CYANEA CAPILLATA; CYANEA LAMARCKI; HYDROIDA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 77952009174     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0214-y     Document Type: Article

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