Diversity and distribution of gelatinous zooplankton in the Southwestern Mediterranean Sea

Marine Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 393-406

  Touzri, Chema ^a   Hamdi, Hedi ^a   Goy, Jacqueline ^b   Daly Yahia, Mohamed N ^a  

^a Struggle and Prevention   (Tunisia)

^b Oceanography Institute of Paris   (France)

Author keywords

Distribution; Diversity; Environmental factors; Gelatinous zooplankton; South Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUTROPHICATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; IDENTIFICATION KEY; NEW RECORD; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

BIZERTE; BIZERTE LAGOON; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST); TUNISIA;

APPENDICULARIA (CLASS); CHAETOGNATHA; DOLIOLIDA; EUTIMA MIRA; HYDROIDA; HYDROMEDUSA; LENSIA CONOIDEA; MUGGIAEA KOCHI; OIKOPLEURA LONGICAUDA; PELAGIA NOCTILUCA; PTEROPODA; SCYPHOMEDUSAE; SIPHONOPHORA (HYDROZOANS);

EID: 84867989966     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2012.00510.x     Document Type: Review

References (60)

1. Addad S., Daly Yahia M.N., Belgith H., Zamamouch S., Goy J., Daly Yahia-Kefi O. (2008) Analyse taxinomique, écologique et caractérisation biochimique des scyphoméduses de la baie de Bizerte et de Tunis (Juillet-Décembre 2004). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France, 133, 33-41.
2. Batistic M., Krsinic F., Jasprica N., Caric M., Vilicic D., Lucic D. (2004) Gelatinous invertebrate zooplankton of the south Adriatic: species composition and vertical distribution. Journal of Plankton Research, 26, 459-474.
3. Batistic M., Jasprica N., Caric M., Lucic D. (2007) Annual cycle of the gelatinous invertebrate zooplankton of the eastern south Adriatic coast (NE Mediterranean). Journal of Plankton Research, 29, 671-686.
4. Behrends G., Schneider G. (1995) Impact of Aurelia aurita medusa (cnidarian, scyphozoa) on the standing stock and community composition of mesozooplankton in the Kiel Bight (western Baltic Sea). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 127, 39-45.
5. Benovic A., Lucic D. (1996) Comparison of hydromedusae findings in the northern and southern Adriatic Sea. Scientia Marina, 60, 129-135.
6. Benovic A., Justic D., Bender A. (1987) Enigmatic changes in the hydromedusan fauna of the northern Adriatic Sea. Nature, 326, 597-600.
7. Berhaut J. (1969) Etude qualitative, quantitative et écologique des hydroméduses du Golfe de Marseille. Tethys, 1, 667-708.
8. Boero F., Mills C.E. (1997) Agricultural versus ethological oceanography. Trends Ecology Evolution, 12, 208-209.
9. Boero F., Bouillon J., Gravili C., Miglietta M.P., Parson T., Piraino S. (2008) Gelatinous plankton: irregularities rule the world (sometimes). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 356, 299-310.
10. Bone Q. (1998) The Biology of Pelagic Tunicates. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 340 pp.
11. Brodeur R.D., Sugiasaki H., Hunt G.L. (2002) Increase in the jellyfish biomass in the Bering Sea: implications for the ecosystem. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 233, 89-103.
12. Burnett J.W. (2001) Medical Aspects of jellyfish envenomation: pathogenesis, case reporting and therapy. Hydrobiologia, 451, 1-9.
13. Daly Yahia M.N., Goy J., Daly Yahia-kefi O. (2003) Distribution et écologie des méduses (Cnidaria) du golfe de Tunis (Méditerranée sud occidentale). Oceanologica Acta, 26, 645-655.
14. Daly Yahia M.N., Daly Yahia-Kefi O., Souissi S. (2004) Distribution verticale du plancton gélatineux dans le golfe de Tunis (Automne 1995). Rapport de la Commission Internationale pour l'Exploration Scientifique de la Mer Méditerranée, 37, 339.
15. Deason E.E., Smayda T.J. (1982) Ctenophore-zooplankton-phytoplankton interactions in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA, during 1972-1977. Journal Plankton Research, 4, 203-216.
16. Deibel D. (1998) Feeding and metabolism of appendicularia. In: Bone Q. (Ed.), The Biology of Pelagic Tunicates. Oxford University Press, Oxford: pp. 139-149.
17. Doyle T.K., De Haas H., Cotton D., Dorshell B., Cummins V., Houghton J.D.R., Davenport J., Hays G.C. (2008) Widespread occurrence of the jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca in Irish coastal and shelf waters. Journal of Plankton Research, 30, 963-968.
18. Fernandez de Puelles M.L., Molinero J.C. (2007) North Atlantic climate control on plankton variability in the Balearic Sea (Western Mediterranean). Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L04608 5.
19. Fernandez de Puelles M.L., Gras D., Hernandez-Leon S. (2003) Annual cycle of zooplankton biomass, abundance and species composition in the neritic area of the Balearic Sea, Western Mediterranean. Marine Ecology, 24, 123-139.
20. Flood P.R., Deibel D., Morris C. (1992) Filtration of colloidal melanin from sea water by planktonic tunicates. Nature, 355, 630-632.
21. Fromentin J.M., Planque B. (1996) Calanus and environment in the eastern north Atlantic. II. Influence of the north Atlantic oscillation on C. finmarchicus and C. helgolandicus. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 134, 101-109.
22. Gamulin T., Krsinie F. (1993) Distribution and abundance of Calycophores in the Mediterranean and Adriatic Sea. Marine Ecology, 14, 97-111.
23. Giorgi R., Avian M., De Olazabel S., Rottini-Sandrini L. (1991) Feeding of Pelagia noctiluca in open sea. Jellyfish blooms in the Mediterranean. In: Proceeding of the II Workshop on Jellyfish in the Mediterranean Sea, Trieste, 47, 102-111.
24. Gorsky G., Fenaux R. (1998) The role of appendicularia in marine food webs. In: Bone Q. (Ed), The Biology of Pelagic Tunicates. Oxford University Press, Oxford: pp. 161-169.
25. Goy J. (1972) Les Hydroméduses de la mer Ligure. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoires Naturelles, 62, 965-1009.
26. Goy J. (1991) Hydromedusae of the Mediterranean Sea. Hydrobiologia, 216/217, 351-354.
27. Goy J., Morand P., Etienne M. (1989) Long-term fluctuations of Pelagia noctiluca (Cnidaria, Scyphomedusa) in the western Mediterranean Sea: prediction by climatic variables. Deep-Sea Research, 36, 269-279.
28. Goy J., Lakkis S., Zeidane R. (1991) Les Méduses (Cnidaria) des eaux libanaises. Annales de l'Institut Océanographique de Paris, 67, 99-128.
29. Graham W.M., Pagès F., Hamner W.H. (2001) A physical context for gelatinous zooplankton aggregations: a review. Hydrobiologia, 451, 199-212.
30. Greve W. (1994) The 1889 German Bight invasion of Muggiaea atlantica. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 51, 355-358.
31. Harzallah A. (2003) Transport de polluants dans la lagune de Bizerte simulé par un modèle de circulation de l'eau. Bulletin de l'Institut National des Sciences de la Mer Salammbô, 30, 121-133.
32. Hopcroft R.R., Roff J.C. (1998) Production of tropical larvaceans in Kingston Harbour, Jamaica: are we ignoring important secondary producer? Journal of Plankton Research, 20, 557-569.
33. Hopcroft R.R., Roff J.C., Boumon H.A. (1998) Zooplankton growth rates: the larvaceans Appendicularia, Fritillaria and Oikopleura in tropical waters. Journal of Plankton Research, 20, 539-555.
34. Licandro P., Ibanez F. (2000) Changes of zooplankton communities in the gulf of Tigullio (Ligurian Sea, Western Mediterranean) from 1985 to 1995. Influence of hydroclimatic factors. Journal of Plankton Research, 22, 2225-2253.
35. Licandro P., Batistic M., Daly Yahia M.N., Daly Yahia O., Malej A., Molinero J.C., Souissi S., Touzri C., Carré C. (2008) Muggiaea atlantica: an Atlantic indicator of hydroclimatic changes in the Mediterranean. Joint ICES/CIESM Workshop to Compare Zooplankton Ecology and Methodologies between the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic.
36. Malacic V., Petelin B., Malej A. (2007) Advection of the jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Schyphozoa) studied by the Lagrangian tracking of water mass in the climatic circulation of the Adriatic Sea. Geophysical Research Abstract, 9, 02802.
37. Matsakis S., Conover R.J. (1991) Abundance and feeding of medusa and their potential predators on other zooplankton in Bedford basin (Nova Scotia, Canada) during spring. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 48, 1419-1430.
38. Millot C. (1987) Circulation in the Western Mediterranean Sea. Oceanologica Acta, 10, 143-149.
39. Mills C.E. (2001) Jellyfish blooms: are populations increasing globally in response to changing ocean conditions? Hydrobiologia, 451, 55-68.
40. Mills C.E., Pugh P.R., Harbison G.R., Haddock S.H.D. (1996) Medusae, Siphonophores and ctenophores of the Alboran Sea, south western Mediterranean. Scientia Marina, 60, 145-163.
41. Molinero J.C., Ibanez F., Nival P., Buecher E., Souissi S. (2005) North Atlantic climate and north western Mediterranean plankton variability. Limnology Oceanography, 50, 1213-1220.
42. Nicholas K.R., Frid C.L.J. (1999) Occurrence of hydromedusae in the plankton off Northumberland (western central North Sea) and the role of planktonic predators. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 79, 979-992.
43. Nomura H., Murano M. (1992) Seasonal variation of meso- and macrozooplankton in Tokyo Bay, central Japan. La Mer, 30, 49-56.
44. Pagès F., Gonzalez H.E., Roman M., Sobarzo M., Gili J.M. (2001) Gelatinous zooplankton assemblages associated with water masses in the Humboldt current system, and potential predatory impact by Bassia bassensis (Siphonophora, Calycophorae). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 210, 13-24.
45. Pugh P.R. (1975) The distribution of siphonophores in a transect across the North Atlantic Ocean at 32°N. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 20, 77-97.
46. Purcell J.E. (1997) Pelagic cnidarians and ctenophores as predators: selective predation, feeding rates and effects on prey populations. Annales de l'Institut Océanographique de Paris, 73, 125-137.
47. Purcell J.E., Arai M.N. (2001) Interactions of pelagic Cnidarians and Ctenophores with fish: a review. Series developments in hydrobiology 155. Hydrobiologia, 451, 27-44.
48. Purcell J.E., Uye S.I., Lo W.T. (2007) Anthropogenic causes of jellyfish blooms and their direct consequences for humans: a review. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 350, 153-174.
49. Purcell J.E., Hoover R.A., Schwarck N.T. (2009) Interannual variation of strobilation by the Scyphozoan Aurelia labiata in relation to polyp density, temperature, salinity and light conditions in situ. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 375, 139-149.
50. Richardson A.J., Bakun A., Hays G.C., Gibbons M.J. (2009) The jellyfish joyride: causes, consequences and management responses to a more gelatinous future. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 24, 312-322.
51. Sabates A., Pagès F., Antienza D., Fuentes V., Purcell J.E., Gili J.M. (2010) Planktonic cnidarian distribution and feeding of Pelagia noctiluca in the NW Mediterranean Sea. Hydrobiologia, 645, 153-165.
52. Suchman C.L., Daly E.A., Keister J.E., Peterson W.T., Brodeur R.D. (2008) Feeding patterns and predation potential of Scyphomedusae in a highly productive upwelling region. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 358, 161-172.
53. Tomita M., Shiga N., Ikeda T. (2003) Seasonal occurrence and vertical distribution of appendicularians in Toyama Bay, Southern Japan Sea. Journal of Plankton Research, 25, 579-589.
54. Touzri C., Daly Yahia M.N., Goy J. (2004) Le plancton gélatineux de la baie de Sousse (Méditerranée Méridionale): Systematique et Ecologie. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France, 129, 379-392.
55. Touzri C., Daly Yahia-Kefi O., Hamdi H., Goy J., Daly Yahia M.N. (2010) Spatio-temporal distribution of medusa (Cnidaria) in the Bay of Bizerte (South Western Mediterranean Sea). Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 51, 167-176.
56. UNEP. (1991) Jellyfish blooms in the Mediterranean Sea. UNEP. MAP Technical Report Series, 47.
57. Uye S., Ichino S. (1995) Seasonal variation in abundance, size composition, biomass and production rate of Oikopleura dioica (Fol) (Tunicata; Appendicularia) in a temperate eutrophic inlet. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 189, 1-11.
58. Verity P.G., Smetacek V. (1996) Organism life cycles, predation and the structure of marine pelagic ecosystems. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 130, 277-293.
59. Vignudelly S., Gasparini G.P., Astraldi M., Schiano M.E. (1999) A possible influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on the circulation of the Western Mediterranean. Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 623-626.
60. Zakaria H.Y. (2004) Pelagic coelenterates in the waters of the western part of the Egyptian Mediterranean coast during summer and winter. Oceanologia, 46, 253-268.