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PT J
TI Cannibalism makes invasive comb jelly, Mnemiopsis leidyi, resilient to unfavourable conditions
BT 
AF Javidpour, Jamileh
   Molinero, Juan-Carlos
   Ramírez-Romero, Eduardo
   Roberts, Patrick
   Larsen, Thomas
AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:4,5;5:4;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;
C1 Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230, Odense M, Denmark
   MARBEC-IRD/CNRS/IFREMER/Univ Montpellier, Avenue Jean Monnet, BP 171, 34203, Sète Cedex, France
   Fish Ecology Group, Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), C/Miquel Marqués 21, 07190, Esporles, Illes Balears, Spain
   Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany
   School of Social Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia
C2 UNIV SOUTHERN DENMARK, DENMARK
   IRD, FRANCE
   IMEDEA, SPAIN
   MAX PLANCK INST SCI HUMAN HIST, GERMANY
   UNIV QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
UM MARBEC
IN WOS Cotutelle UMR
   DOAJ
   copubli-europe
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 6.548
TC 12
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00628/74047/73454.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00628/74047/73455.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00628/74047/73456.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00628/74047/73457.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB The proliferation of invasive marine species is often explained by a lack of predators and opportunistic life history traits. For the invasive comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi, it has remained unclear how this now widely distributed species is able to overcome long periods of low food availability, particularly in their northernmost exotic habitats in Eurasia. Based on both field and laboratory evidence, we show that adult comb jellies in the western Baltic Sea continue building up their nutrient reserves after emptying the prey field through a shift to cannibalizing their own larvae. We argue, that by creating massive late summer blooms, the population can efficiently empty the prey field, outcompete intraguild competitors, and use the bloom events to build nutrient reserves for critical periods of prey scarcity. Our finding that cannibalism makes a species with typical opportunistic traits more resilient to environmental fluctuations is important for devising more effective conservation strategies. 
PY 2020
PD MAY
SO Communications Biology
SN 2399-3642
PU Springer Science and Business Media LLC
VL 3
IS 1
UT 000533893600001
DI 10.1038/s42003-020-0940-2
ID 74047
ER

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