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AB - Hydrobiologia (2012) 690:3–20 DOI 10.1007/s10750-012-1039-7 JELLYFI SH BLOOMS Increasing jellyfish populations: trends in Large Marine Ecosystems • • Lucas Brotz William W. L. Cheung • • Kristin Kleisner Evgeny Pakhomov Daniel Pauly Published online: 3 April 2012 The Author(s) 2012. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract Although there are various indications and combination of information with variable degrees of claims that jellyfish (i.e., scyphozoans, cubozoans, cardinality, reliability, and temporal and spatial cov- most hydrozoans, ctenophores, and salps) have been erage. Data were aggregated and analyzed at the scale increasing at a global scale in recent decades, a of Large Marine Ecosystem (LME). Of the 66 LMEs rigorous demonstration of this has never been pre- defined thus far that cover the world’s coastal waters sented. Because this is mainly due to scarcity of and seas, trends of jellyfish abundance after 1950 quantitative time series of jellyfish abundance from (increasing, decreasing, or stable/variable) were iden- scientific surveys, we attempt to complement such tified for 45, with variable degrees of confidence. Of data with non-conventional information from other those 45 LMEs, the majority (28 or 62%) showed sources. This was accomplished using the analytical increasing trends. These changes 
TI - Increasing jellyfish populations: trends in Large Marine Ecosystems
JF - Hydrobiologia
DO - 10.1007/s10750-012-1039-7
DA - 2012-04-03
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/increasing-jellyfish-populations-trends-in-large-marine-ecosystems-B0kP7h9wqc
DP - DeepDyve
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