The growth of jellyfishes

Use of an Inverse Method for Time Series to Estimate the Dynamics of and Management Strategies for the Box Jellyfish Carybdea marsupialis

“…for Sarsia tubulosa and Aequorea vitrina [ 24 ]. Palomares & Pauly [ 25 ] reviewed the growth of jellyfishes with the von Bertalanffy formula for scyphozoans and a few cubozoans. In scyphozoans, there are few studies using a matrix approach with size classes [ 26 ].…”

Increasing jellyfish populations: trends in Large Marine Ecosystems

“…All cubozoans, as well as many hydrozoans and scyphozoans have a life history consisting of a sessile polyp phase and a planktonic medusa phase. Many polyps reproduce asexually through the process of strobilation, producing multiple ephyrae which join the zooplankton community (Arai, 1997) and rapidly grow to become medusae (Palomares & Pauly, 2009). For some species, the polyps may asexually bud more polyps or form dormant cysts capable of surviving harsh environmental conditions (Arai, 2009).…”

Are Jellyfish Taking Over The World?

“…As the global warming epidemic is rapidly beyond control, studies provide critical evidence showing events of jellyfish swarms coinciding with global warming events such as El Nino [13], emphasising that as the future of global warming increases, jellyfish will also increase in biomass, population and size across the world [53]. There is sufficient evidence to suggest that the current influx in jellyfish population is not an anomaly within nature and that certain anthropogenic activities are in fact a cause for the increased organism invasion which must be controlled [40], this being said detailed evidence suggests that jellyfish are dominating the world's oceans, however research must be completed to improve the available knowledge of the causes for jellyfish blooms and eventually to control the situation and understand how to either beat these ever evolving creatures or at least live amongst them, as little knowledge is known about these fascinating "immortal" organisms.…”