This review provides an integrated synthesis with timelines and evaluations of ecological
responses to eutrophication in Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the USA. Analyses of …

Coelenterates (cnidaria and ctenophores) are well recognized as predators in food webs of
marine ecosystems but are less often considered as prey. This is partly because they are …

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 …

The native habitats of the ctenophore, Mnemiopsis, are temperate to subtropical estuaries
along the Atlantic coast of North and South America, where it is found in an extremely wide …

We examined quantitative catches of large medusae from summer bottom trawl surveys that
sampled virtually the same grid station on the eastern Bering Sea shelf using the same …

Although eutrophication is a widespread problem in marine waters, its effects are often
difficult to separate from normal fluctuations of pelagic coelenterate populations and from …

Predation is a pervasive but ephemeral feature of marine fisheries. Losses to predation can
exceed losses to fisheries, yet is is often assumed fishing mortality alone is responsible for …

Ctenophores, or comb jellies, are a distinct phylum of marine zooplankton with eight
meridional rows of giant locomotory comb plates. Comb plates are the largest ciliary …

Jellyfishes have functionally replaced several overexploited commercial stocks of
planktivorous fishes. This is paradoxical, because they use a primitive prey capture …

The genus Mnemiopsis is comprised of a single species, Mnemiopsis leidyi A. Agassiz,
1865, that has recently made the transition from a distribution limited to the Atlantic coasts of …