Are Scyphozoan Blooms Increasing? Causes and Consequences

• Main Author: Banigan, Caitlin
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: NSUWorks 2014
• Subjects: Marine Biology; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Bering Sea; Medusa
• Online Access: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cnso_stucap/48

Scyphozoan medusae exhibit important population fluctuations over a variety of time scales. Populations of many species bloom, that is, exhibit a rapid localized population increase, as a natural part of their life cycles; however, blooming events are being reported more frequently. Anthropogenic im...