Jellyfish Life Histories: Role of Polyps in Forming and Maintaining Scyphomedusa Populations

Advances in Marine Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 2012, Pages 133-196

  Lucas, Cathy H ^a   Graham, William M ^b   Widmer, Chad ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asexual reproduction; Food availability; Jellyfish; Life histories; Medusae; Nudibranchs; Polyps; Recruitment; Scyphozoa; Settlement; Strobilation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BENTHOS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GASTROPOD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; JELLYFISH; JUVENILE; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; LIFE HISTORY; METAMORPHOSIS; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; POLYP; POPULATION OUTBREAK; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RESEARCH WORK; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL REGION;

AURELIA AURITA; HYDROIDA; INVERTEBRATA; NUDIBRANCHIA; SCYPHOZOA;

ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; JELLYFISH; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 84864616541     PISSN: 00652881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394282-1.00003-X     Document Type: Chapter

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