Table of Contents

Jellyfish and Human Enterprise: Fisheries and Tourism.- Medical aspects of jellyfish envenomation: pathogenesis, case reporting and therapy.- Jellyfish as food.- Jellyfish fisheries in southeast Asia.- Interactions of pelagic cnidarians and ctenophores with fish: a review.- Feeding on survival-food: gelatinous plankton as a source of food for anchovies.- Jellyfish and Changing Ecosystems.- Jellyfish blooms: are populations increasing globally in response to changing ocean conditions?.- Pelagic coelenterates and eutrophication: a review.- Effects of low dissolved oxygen on survival and asexual reproduction of scyphozoan polyps (Chrysaora quinquecirrha).- Numerical increases and distributional shifts of Chrysaora quinquecirrha (Desor) and Aurelia aurita (Linné) (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) in the northern Gulf of Mexico.- Timing and size of blooms of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in relation to temperature in Narragansett Bay, RI.- The impact of El Niño events on populations of mesopelagic hydromedusae.- Jellyfish swarms, tourists, and the Christ-child.- The ctenophore Mnemiopsis in native and exotic habitats: U.S. estuaries versus the Black Sea basin.- Chemical composition, respiration and feeding rates of the new alien ctenophore, Beroe ovata, in the Black Sea.- The new invader Beroe ovata Mayer 1912 and its effect on the ecosystem in the northeastern Black Sea.- Physical/Hydrodynamic Interactions With Jellyfish.- A physical context for gelatinous zooplankton aggregations: a review.- Developing jellyfish strategy hypotheses using circulation models.- Flow and prey capture by the scyphomedusa Phyllorhiza punctata von Lendenfeld, 1884.- Jellyfish Reproduction and Population Biology.- Reproduction and life history strategies of the common jellyfish, Aurelia aurita, inrelation to its ambient environment.- In situ estimation of ephyrae liberated from polyps of Aurelia aurita using settling plates in Tokyo Bay, Japan.- Geographic variation and ecological adaptation in Aurelia(Scyphozoa, Semaeostomeae): some implications from molecular phylogenetics.- General Ecology of Jellyfish.- Observations on the distribution and relative abundance of the scyphomedusan Chrysaora hysoscella (Linné, 1766) and the hydrozoan Aequorea aequorea (Forskål, 1775) in the northern Benguela ecosystem.- A novel cilia-based feature within the food grooves of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis mccradyi Mayer.- Protistan epibionts of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis mccradyi Mayer.- Digenea parasites of jellyfish and ctenophores of the southern Atlantic.- Food and feeding of Aurelia aurita in Tokyo Bay with an analysis of stomach contents and a measurement of digestion times.- Distribution, abundance, behavior and metabolism of Periphylla periphylla, a mesopelagic coronate medusa in a Norwegian fjord.

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