Advances in ecological stoichiometry, a rapidly expanding research field investigating the
elemental composition of organisms and their environment, have shed new light on the …

Studies of the trophic ecology of gelatinous zooplankton have predominantly employed gut
content analyses and grazing experiments. These approaches record only what is …

Scyphozoa have attracted the attention of many types of people. Naturalists watch their
graceful locomotion. Fishermen may dread the swarms which can prevent fishing or eat …

There has been a dramatic increase in jellyfish biomass over the eastern Bering Sea shelf
since the early 1990s, which was previously hypothesized to have been triggered by …

The food webs of rocky infra-littoral ecosystems in the Mediterranean have been little
studied. In this investigation stable isotopes and dietary data were compared in an attempt to …

Understanding river food webs requires distinguishing energy derived from primary
production in the river itself (autochthonous) from that produced externally (allochthonous) …

Due to their boom and bust population dynamics and the enormous biomasses they can
attain, jellyfish and ctenophores can have a large influence on the cycling of carbon (C) …

Fishes and invertebrates were collected from the continental slope southwest of the Balearic
Islands, Mediterranean, in October 1996 and May 1998 from 3 faunally-distinct depth zones …

Over recent decades, man's expanding influence on the oceans has begun to cause change
in some regions, including in the Mediterranean Sea. New proliferations of jellyfish may be …

Between January 1995 and August 1996, suspended matter and zooplankton were sampled
at different locations in a mangrove ecosystem located in the Gautami Godavari estuary and …