Natural predators of polyps of three scyphozoans: <italic style="font-style: italic">Nemopilema nomurai</italic>, <italic style="font-style: italic">Aurelia coerulea</italic>, and <italic style="font-style: italic">Rhopilema esculentum</italic>

Changsheng TANG; Song SUN; Fang ZHANG

doi:10.1007/s00343-020-0284-2

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Natural predators of polyps of three scyphozoans: Nemopilema nomurai, Aurelia coerulea, and Rhopilema esculentum

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- Natural predators of polyps of three scyphozoans: Nemopilema nomurai, Aurelia coerulea, and Rhopilema esculentum
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 39, Issue 2, Pages: 598-608(2021)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
  2.Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266071, China
  3.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  4.Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
  5.Jiaozhou Bay Marine Ecosystem Research Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
- Author bio：
  
  Song SUN, E-mail: sunsong@qdio.ac.cn
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-020-0284-2
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- Received：24 July 2020，
  
  Accepted：20 August 2020，
  
  Online First：04 September 2020，
  
  Published：2021-03
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Changsheng TANG, Song SUN, Fang ZHANG. Natural predators of polyps of three scyphozoans: Nemopilema nomurai, Aurelia coerulea, and Rhopilema esculentum[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2021, 39(2): 598-608.
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Changsheng TANG, Song SUN, Fang ZHANG. Natural predators of polyps of three scyphozoans: Nemopilema nomurai, Aurelia coerulea, and Rhopilema esculentum[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2021, 39(2): 598-608. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-020-0284-2.

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Jellyfish blooms have become a hot research topic in recent decades because they pose a serious threat to fisheries

coastal industries

tourism

and the marine ecosystem. The life cycle of scyphozoan jellyfish consists of a pelagic medusa stage and a benthic polyp stage

where asexual reproduction and strobilation of the polyps directly affect the abundance of ephyra and subsequently medusa abundance. The dynamics of polyps are affected by both environmental and biological factors

and predation by natural predators is one of the most important biological factors.

Nemopilema nomurai

Aurelia coerulea

and

Rhopilema esculentum

are three scyphozoan species that are commonly found in Chinese coastal waters

and previous studies reported that the survivorship of polyps differs among the three species when they are exposed to the same benthic community. To identify potential natural predators of polyps of these three species in Chinese coastal waters and to determine whether the predation rates on polyps of the three species differ

we collected 39 species of macrozoobenthos from the Bohai Sea

Yellow Sea

and East China Sea from May 2014 to June 2016 and conducted predation tests and predation rate measurements. We found that the nudibranchs

Pleurobranchaea novaezealandiae

Okenia plana

and

Chromodoris tinctoria

and the sea anemones

Paracalliactis sinica

Calliactis japonica

Anthopleura incerta

and

Anthopleura midori

could prey on the polyps of all three scyphozoan species. The predation rates increased with the body length of the predators. The predations rates were also related to the polyp species

although the different predators showed no consistent preference for a particular species of polyp. Our results indicate that introducing predators to locations inhabited by polyps might be a way to control the benthic polyp populations and prevent subsequent jellyfish blooms.

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Natural predators of polyps of three scyphozoans: Nemopilema nomurai, Aurelia coerulea, and Rhopilema esculentum

DOI：10.1007/s00343-020-0284-2

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