U.S.-Norway Cooperative Research: The Predatory Role of the Coronate Medusae Periphylla periphylla in a Fjord Ecosystem

9903467 Young Bluth该奖项支持海港分会海洋研究所的Marsh Young Bluth与挪威卑尔根大学渔业和海洋生物系的Ulf Balmstedt合作。这项研究将专注于预测周叶水母的捕食行为，这种水母在挪威峡湾的远洋食物网中扮演着调节物种的角色。这项合作研究将阐明觅食策略和水柱变量之间的关系。这样的比较将使对摄食影响的估计成为可能，这将对捕食动力学模型做出重大贡献。这一国际伙伴关系将通过提供关于时间、空间和行为变量的新见解来加强国内的研究计划，这些变量会影响触手捕食者的分布、丰度和食性。

9903467YoungbluthThis award supports Marsh Youngbluth from the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution in a collaboration with Ulf Balmstedt of the Department of Fisheries and Marine Biology at the University of Bergen, Norway. The research will focus on predicting predation by the jellyfish Periphylla periphylla, which acts as a regulatory species in pelagic food webs of Norwegian fjords. The cooperative study will elucidate relationships between foraging strategies and water column variables. Such comparisons will make estimations of feeding impact possible which will contribute significantly to models of predatory dynamics. The international partnership will strengthen the domestic research program by providing new insights about temporal, spatial, and behavioral variables that act to influence the distribution, abundance and feeding habits of a tentaculate predator.