First observations of the freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester, 1880 in Ireland coincides with unusually high water temperatures

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dc.contributor.authorMinchin, Dan
dc.contributor.authorCaffrey, Joe M.
dc.contributor.authorHaberlin, Damien
dc.contributor.authorGermaine, David
dc.contributor.authorWalsh, Colm
dc.contributor.authorBoelens, Rick
dc.contributor.authorDoyle, Thomas K.
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-06T19:34:08Z
dc.date.available2017-03-06T19:34:08Z
dc.date.issued2016-04-10
dc.date.updated2017-03-03T13:18:25Z
dc.description.abstractThe freshwater hydrozoan Craspedacusta sowerbii was observed for the first time in Ireland at five localities in two separate river catchments (Shannon and Erne) during the summer of 2013. All collected medusae from Lough Derg on the Shannon catchment were female. Analysis of water temperature data for the period 2001–2015 found that water temperatures greater than 21°C were only recorded in 2013. The occurrence of medusae in three distinct areas during this unusually warm summer suggests that it may have been present in its polyp form for some years, or even decades. While it is not known when the species arrived in Ireland, the spread of this species may have involved different pathways. With climate warming, further appearances of the medusa-stage may be expected.en
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dc.identifier.citationMinchin, D., Caffrey, J.M., Haberlin, D., Germaine, D., Walsh, C., Boelens, R. and Doyle, T.K. (2016) ‘First observations of the freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester, 1880 in Ireland coincides with unusually high water temperatures’, BioInvasions Records, 5(2), pp. 67-74. doi:10.3391/bir.2016.5.2.02en
dc.identifier.doi10.3391/bir.2016.5.2.02
dc.identifier.endpage74en
dc.identifier.issn2242-1300
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleBioInvasions Recordsen
dc.identifier.startpage67en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/3750
dc.identifier.volume5en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRegional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre, Helsinki, Finlanden
dc.rights© 2016, the Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (Attribution 2.0 Generic - CC BY 2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/en
dc.subjectPolypen
dc.subjectMedusaen
dc.subjectCryptogenen
dc.subjectLakeen
dc.subjectBloomen
dc.titleFirst observations of the freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester, 1880 in Ireland coincides with unusually high water temperaturesen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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