Growth, development and temporal variation in the onset of six Chironex fleckeri medusae seasons: A contribution to understanding jellyfish ecology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Gordon, Matthew ^a   Seymour, Jamie ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AGE; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHIRONEX FLECKERI; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTUARINE SPECIES; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH RATE; JELLYFISH; JUVENILE ANIMAL; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASHORE; SEASON; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES HABITAT; TENTACLES; TIDAL AMPLITUDE; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CALIBRATION; CUBOZOA; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

CHIRONEX FLECKERI; CUBOZOA; HYDROIDA; SCYPHOZOA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CALIBRATION; CUBOZOA; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84857559367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031277     Document Type: Article

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