Marine biota is a great source of ecosystem services. Recently, the involvement of marine
organisms in biotechnological applications has been discovered and become useful for the …

Although recent articles state that jellyfish populations are increasing, most available
evidence shows that jellyfish abundances fluctuate with climatic cycles. Reports of …

Three jellyfish species, Aurelia aurita, Cyanea nozakii and Nemopilema nomurai, form large
blooms in Chinese seas. We report on the distribution and increasing incidence of jellyfish …

In spite of being one of the most relevant components of the biosphere, the plankton-
benthos network is still poorly studied as such. This is partly due to the irregular occurrence …

Over the past half century fishing has led globally to a reduction in the mean trophic level of
commercially landed species, with a significant decline from large predatory fish toward …

Abstract Dickey-Collas, M., Nash, RDM, Brunel, T., van Damme, CJG, Marshall, CT, Payne,
MR, Corten, A., Geffen, AJ, Peck, MA, Hatfield, EMC, Hintzen, NT, Enberg, K., Kell, LT, and …

The Catalan Sea, located between the eastern Iberian coast and the Balearic Islands, is a
representative portion of the western Mediterranean basin and provides a valuable case …

A steep increase in jellyfish biomass, primarily Chrysaora melanaster, over the eastern
Bering Sea shelf was documented throughout the 1990s. Their biomass peaked in summer …

Science has rapidly expanded its frontiers with new technologies in the 20th Century.
Oceanography now is studied routinely by satellite. Predictive models are on global scales …

The perception that anthropogenic stressors cause jellyfish blooms is widespread within the
scientific literature and media but robust evidence in support of these claims appears scarce …