An overview of the Medusozoa from Atlantic South America

SCHIARITI A.; DUTTO; MORANDINI A.; NAGATTA; PEREYRA; PUENTE TAPIA; DIAZ BRIZ L.; GENZANO G. N.

Plankton ecology of the Southwestern Atlantic. From the Subtropical to Subantarctic Realm

Springer

Año: 2018; p. 413 - 447

Medusozoans are critical components of coastal and marine ecosystems.They are ubiquitous, living from the surface to the bottom layers of the world?soceans and tolerating a wide range of environmental conditions. They modulatefood webs not only by consuming large quantities of ichthyoplankton and otherzooplankton and acting as predators and competitors of varied pelagic organismsincluding fish but also by being consumed by other predators. Population outbreaksof these gelatinous animals commonly occur over a variety of spatiotemporal scales.These population explosion events have implications for the ecosystem and, usually,