/news/2014/10/15/importance-of-jellyfish-falls-to-deep-sea-ecosystem-revealed/ News from the ¶«¾«Ó°Òµ Mon, 25 Oct 2021 20:28:54 +0000 hourly 1 /news/2014/10/15/importance-of-jellyfish-falls-to-deep-sea-ecosystem-revealed/#comment-367201 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 20:55:39 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=28430#comment-367201 […] […]

]]> /news/2014/10/15/importance-of-jellyfish-falls-to-deep-sea-ecosystem-revealed/#comment-200717 Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:37:23 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=28430#comment-200717 great work and great videos. I was just disappointed to seeing relevant literature – stressing the importance of (live or dead) jellyfish prey in carbon fluxes – ignored. One for all: Yamamoto J, Hirose M, Ohtani T, Sugimoto K, Hirase K, et al. (2007) Transportation of organic matter to the sea floor by carrion falls of the giant jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai in the Sea of Japan. Mar Biol 153: 311–317 (Evidence that jellyfish biomass does not represent a trophic dead end from observations of dead biomass of the giant jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai sinking to the bottom, where it is consumed by macrobenthic scavengers more rapidly than decomposed by bacteria). Also, much information is accumulating showing that jellyfish biomasses can be a resource in shallow waters as well, and should not be considered a trophic dead-end (see for instance Milisenda et al. 2014. Jellyfish as Prey: Frequency of Predation and Selective Foraging of Boops boops (Vertebrata, Actinopterygii) on the Mauve Stinger Pelagia noctiluca (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa). PLoS ONE 9(4): e94600 ()

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