Increasing jellyfish populations: Trends in Large Marine Ecosystems

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 690, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-20

  Brotz, Lucas ^a   Cheung, William W L ^a,b   Kleisner, Kristin ^a   Pakhomov, Evgeny ^a   Pauly, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blooms; Ctenophores; Fuzzy logic; Gelatinous zooplankton; Jellyfishes; Pelagic cnidarians

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; JELLYFISH; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

CNIDARIA; CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); CUBOZOA; HYDROZOA; SALPIDA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 84861687055     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1039-7     Document Type: Article

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