2005, Oceanography 18(2):76–85, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2005.43

Impacts of Invasive Ctenophores on the Fisheries of the
Black Sea and Caspian Sea

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Ahmet Erkan Kideys | Institute of Marine Sciences, Erdemli, Turkey

Abolghaseem Roohi | Mazandaran Fisheries Research Center, Anzali, Iran

Siamak Bagheri | Guilan Fisheries Research Center, Sari, Iran

Galina Finenko | Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Sevastopol, Ukraine

Lyudmila Kamburska | Institute of Oceanology, Varna, Bulgaria

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Gelatinous zooplankton are known to have a substantial effect on pelagic food webs by exerting top-down control on their ecosystems (Purcell and Decker, 2005), but their impact could be even greater when they invade other regions. The effects of zooplankton invasions have been well documented for the Black Sea and very recently for the Caspian Sea.

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Citation

Kideys, A.E., A. Roohi, S. Bagheri, G. Finenko, and L. Kamburska. 2005. Impacts of invasive ctenophores on the fisheries of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. Oceanography 18(2):76–85, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2005.43.

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