Changes in the small-jellyfish community in recent decades in Jiaozhou Bay, China

Song Sun; Yinghong Li; Xiaoxia Sun

doi:10.1007/s00343-012-1179-7

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Changes in the small-jellyfish community in recent decades in Jiaozhou Bay, China

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- Changes in the small-jellyfish community in recent decades in Jiaozhou Bay, China
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 30, Issue 4, Pages: 507-518(2012)
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  1. Jiaozhou Bay Marine Ecosystem Research Station Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences
  2. Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences
  3. Bureau of Science and Technology for Resources and Environment Chinese Academy of Sciences
  4. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-012-1179-7
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- Online First：02 July 2012，
  
  Published：2012
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Sun, S., Li, Y. & Sun, X. Changes in the small-jellyfish community in recent decades in Jiaozhou Bay, China., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 30, 507–518 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-012-1179-7
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Sun, S., Li, Y. & Sun, X. Changes in the small-jellyfish community in recent decades in Jiaozhou Bay, China., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 30, 507–518 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-012-1179-7 DOI：

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We used long term monitoring data to evaluate changes in abundance and species dominance of small-jellyfish (collected with zooplankton net whose bell diameter was less than 5 cm) between 1991 and 2009 in the Jiaozhou Bay

China. Zooplankton samples were vertically towed with conical plankton net from near-bottom to surface

identified microscopically

and mapped in time-space using Grapher 7.0 and Surfer 8.0. Results show that the abundance of small-jellyfish throughout the bay had been increasing during 2001–2009 on average of 15.2 ind./m3

almost 5 times higher than that between 1991 and 2000. The occurrence of peak abundance shifted from spring to summer after 2000

and two peaks appeared in spring and summer

respectively

after 2005. Both the abundance and the frequency of blooms of small-jellyfish increased after 2000 in the bay. In addition

the biodiversity of jellyfish has increased significantly in recent years with a change in dominant species. Several new dominant species appeared after 2000

including Rathkae octopunctata in winter

Phialidium hemisphaericum in spring

summer

and autumn

Phialucium carolinae in spring

and Pleurobrachia globosa in summer and autumn

while some previous dominant species throughout the 1990s (Eirene ceylonensis

Zanclea costata

Lovenella assimilis

and Muggiaea atlantica ) were no longer dominant after 2000. The abundance of small-jellyfish was positively correlated with the density of dinoflagellates

and the abundance of zooplankton. We believe that the changes in smalljellyfish abundance and species composition were the result of eutrophication

aquaculture and coastal construction activities around the bay. Concurrently

seawater warming and salinity decrease in recent decades promoted the growth and reproduction of small-jellyfish in the bay.

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