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SUBMITTER: Licandro P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2936146 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Licandro P P Conway D V P DV Daly Yahia M N MN Fernandez de Puelles M L ML Gasparini S S Hecq J H JH Tranter P P Kirby R R RR
Biology letters 20100407 5
A long-term time series of plankton records collected by the continuous plankton recorder (CPR) Survey in the northeast Atlantic indicates an increased occurrence of Cnidaria since 2002. In the years 2007 and 2008, outbreaks of the warm-temperate scyphomedusa, Pelagia noctiluca, appeared in CPR samples between 45° N to 58° N and 1° W to 26° W. Knowing the biology of this species and its occurrence in the adjacent Mediterranean Sea, we suggest that P. noctiluca may be exploiting recent hydroclima ...[more]