Jellyfish Blooms: New Problems and Solutions

The first Jellyfish Blooms volume was published in 2001. Since that time, reports of human problems with jellyfish, as well as public and scientific awareness of the importance of jellyfish in coastal waters have increased dramatically. At the same time,

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Developments in Hydrobiology 212

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K. Martens

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Jellyfish Blooms: New Problems and Solutions Editors

Jennifer E. Purcell1,2 & Dror L. Angel3 1 2

Western Washington University, Shannon Point Marine Center, 1900 Shannon Point Rd, Anacortes, WA 98221, USA

University College Cork, Coastal and Marine Resources Centre, Naval Base, Haulbowline Island, Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland 3

Department of Maritime Civilizations, Leon Recanati Institute of Maritime Studies, Haifa University, Mt Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel

Previously published in Hydrobiologia, Volume 645, 2010

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Editors Jennifer E. Purcell Western Washington University, Shannon Point Marine Center, 1900 Shannon Point Rd, Anacortes, WA 98221, USA; University College Cork, Coastal and Marine Resources Centre, Naval Base, Haulbowline Island, Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland

Dror L. Angel Department of Maritime Civilizations, Leon Recanati Institute of Maritime Studies, Haifa University, Mt Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel

ISBN 978-90-481-9540-4 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010928696 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover illustration: A bloom of Pelagia noctiluca jellyfish off the coast of Galicia, Spain. Photo: Alejandro Olariaga. Printed on acid-free paper. Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Contents

Preface J.E. Purcell · D. Angel

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JELLYFISH BLOOMS

Identification key for young ephyrae: a first step for early detection of jellyfish blooms I. Straehler-Pohl · G. Jarms 3 Blooms of the invasive ctenophore, Mnemiopsis leidyi, span the Mediterranean Sea in 2009 V.L. Fuentes · D.L. Angel · K.M. Bayha · D. Atienza · D. Edelist · C. Bordehore · J.-M. Gili · J.E. Purcell

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INTERACTIONS OF JELLYFISH WITH THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

Effects of pH on asexual reproduction and statolith formation of the scyphozoan, Aurelia labiata A.K. Winans · J.E. Purcell 39 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? S. Holst · G. Jarms 53 Effects of El Niño-driven environmental variability on black turtle migration to Peruvian foraging grounds J. Quiñones · V. González Carman · J. Zeballos · S. Purca · H. Mianzan 69 Recurrence of bloom-forming scyphomedusae: wavelet analysis of a 200-year time series T. Kogovšek · B. Bogunovic´ · A. Malej 81 Behavior of Nemopsis bachei L. Agassiz, 1849 medusae in the presence of physical gradients and biological thin layers J.R. Frost · C.A. Jac