Sentences with phrase «of jellyfish blooms»

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In 2006, a jellyfish bloom temporarily disabled the Ronald Reagan, one of the US navy's flagship nuclear - powered supercarriers.

«There's a long history of jellyfish really coming into huge numbers, big blooms, with a big effect on ecology, when you have perturbations to the system.»

In the Gulf of Mexico, a foreign jellyfish produced a huge bloom off Alabama's coastline last summer, reported Monty Graham of the state's Sea Lab on Dauphin Island.

It's often unclear whether the blooms are unusual or just natural population fluctuations, says Claudia Mills, a jellyfish expert at the University of Washington's marine laboratory in Friday Harbor.

The Mediterranean Sea has always been home to a native jellyfish population; however, since the 1970s, devastating blooms of the stinging Rhopilema nomadica jellyfish have severely impacted the tourism and fishing industries in Israel and elsewhere.

All major groups of animals — an entire kingdom of multicellular life that today includes insects, worms, shellfish, starfish, sea anemones, coral, jellyfish, and vertebrates like us — bloomed suddenly in the fossil record during an evolutionary extravaganza known as the Cambrian explosion, which occurred 530 million years ago.

«Blooms» of jellyfish are occurring in response to these effects.

«It's refreshing to see a thoughtful analysis of the «jellyfish bloom» phenomenon,» says David Garrison, a program director in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research.

As Berwald snorkels amid a jellyfish bloom in the Bay of Haifa, she watches a research photographer cavort with jellyfish like a dolphin.

The three of us had just kayaked across the Sound, through a bloom of large white jellyfish that looked like a flotilla of wedding gowns.

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This is one example of the consequences of poor citation practices: Flawed citation practices facilitate the unsubstantiated perception of a global trend toward increased jellyfish blooms

The team collected data tracking the movements of the jellyfish and oceanic current flows, and found that the jellyfish can actively swim at counter-current in response to drift — the findings help to explain how jellyfish can congregate in the millions to form blooms that can last for periods up to several months.