Settlement Preferences of the Pacific Sea Nettle, Chrysaora fuscescens, and the Socioeconomic Impacts of Jellyfish on Fishers in the Northern California Current

dc.contributor.advisorSutherland, Kellyen_US
dc.contributor.authorConley, Keatsen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-03T23:31:20Z
dc.date.available2013-10-03T23:31:20Z
dc.date.issued2013-10-03
dc.description.abstractFew data are available on distribution, abundance, and ecology of scyphozoans in the Northern California Current (NCC). This thesis is divided into four chapters, each of which contributes to our understanding of a different stage of the scyphozoan life history. The first study describes the settlement preferences of Chrysaora fuscescens planulae in the laboratory. Planulae were found to respond to the interaction of substrate and orientation. Artificial substrates were identified as viable habitat for C. fuscescens. In the second chapter, a population of scyphistomae in Charleston, Oregon were identified to species-level using DNA barcoding techniques. The third and fourth chapters focus on the medusa stage of the life history. Using surveys mailed to fishers in the Pacific Region, this study provides baseline data on the types and magnitudes of economic damages caused by jellyfish on different fisheries and helps assess fishers' perceptions of jellyfish population trends in the NCC. This thesis includes previously unpublished co-authored material.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/13232
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USen_US
dc.subjectBloomen_US
dc.subjectCoastal developmenten_US
dc.subjectEconomic damageen_US
dc.subjectJellyfishen_US
dc.subjectOcean sprawlen_US
dc.subjectSalmon trollingen_US
dc.titleSettlement Preferences of the Pacific Sea Nettle, Chrysaora fuscescens, and the Socioeconomic Impacts of Jellyfish on Fishers in the Northern California Currenten_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineEnvironmental Studies Programen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregonen_US
thesis.degree.levelmastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameM.S.en_US

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