Morphofunctional bases of feeding and the trophic role of Lychnorhiza lucerna (Scyphozoa, Rhizostomeae)

• Grant number: 11/00436-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): May 01, 2011
• Effective date (End): December 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Morphology of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: André Carrara Morandini
• Grantee: Renato Mitsuo Nagata
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 13/19478-8 - Implications of animalfluid interactions for the feeding behavior of Lychnorhiza lucerna, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Over the last two decades, considerable attention has turned to scyphomedusae ecology due to the apparent increase in certain populations. Their feeding rates are high and they can deplete planktonic populations causing drastic consequences for the economy and the ecosystem. Data about feeding habits of medusae of Rhizostomeae, which dominate in tropical and subtropical coastal environments, are scarce. In Brazil, Lychnorhiza Lucerna Haeckel, 1880 is the most abundant Rhizostomeae and also reaches high densities during their population peaks, but nothing is known about feeding habits. This project aims to: (i) to describe the morphology and functionality of structures prey capture of L. Lucerna, (ii) to describe the species diet, prey selectivity and individual feed rates and (iii) to determine the species trophic level and the main nutritional sources by means of stable isotope analysis. Thus, the ecological role of these species will be better understood and essential information, to predict the consequences of the species blooms will be generated.

Scientific publications

(8)

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

NAGATA, RENATO MITSUO; MOREIRA, MARCELO ZACHARIAS; PIMENTEL, CAIO RIBEIRO; MORANDINI, ANDRE CARRARA. Food web characterization based on delta N-15 and delta C-13 reveals isotopic niche partitioning between fish and jellyfish in a relatively pristine ecosystem. Marine Ecology Progress Series, v. 519, p. 13-27, JAN 20 2015. (10/50174-7, 11/00436-8)

NAGATA, RENATO MITSUO; NOGUEIRA JUNIOR, MIODELI; BRANDINI, FREDERICO PEREIRA; HADDAD, MARIA ANGELICA. Spatial and temporal variation of planktonic cnidarian density in subtropical waters of the Southern Brazilian Bight. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, v. 94, n. 7, p. 1387-1400, NOV 2014. (11/00436-8, 11/09880-8)

NAGATA, RENATO MITSUO; MORANDINI, ANDRE CARRARA. Diet, prey selection, and individual feeding rates of the jellyfish Lychnorhiza lucerna (Scyphozoa, Rhizostomeae). Marine Biology, v. 165, n. 12, DEC 2018. (10/50174-7, 11/00436-8, 15/01307-8, 11/50242-5, 15/21007-9)

CABRAL, ANA CAROLINE; NOGUEIRA JUNIOR, MIODELI; NAGATA, RENATO MITSUO; BRANDINI, FREDERICO PEREIRA. Are free-floating planktonic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) common components of the pelagic fauna from the South Brazilian Bight?. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, v. 95, n. 8, p. 1645-1652, DEC 2015. (11/21290-1, 11/00436-8, 11/09880-8)

NAGATA, RENATO MITSUO; MOREIRA, MARCELO ZACHARIAS; PIMENTEL, CAIO RIBEIRO; MORANDINI, ANDRE CARRARA. Food web characterization based on delta N-15 and delta C-13 reveals isotopic niche partitioning between fish and jellyfish in a relatively pristine ecosystem. MARINE ECOLOGY-PROGRESS SERIES, v. 519, p. 15-pg., 2015-01-20. (10/50174-7, 11/00436-8)

NAGATA, RENATO M.; MORANDINI, ANDRE C.; COLIN, SEAN P.; MIGOTTO, ALVARO E.; COSTELLO, JOHN H.. Transitions in morphologies, fluid regimes, and feeding mechanisms during development of the medusa Lychnorhiza lucerna. MARINE ECOLOGY-PROGRESS SERIES, v. 557, p. 15-pg., 2016-09-28. (15/01307-8, 11/50242-5, 14/00824-6, 16/05637-5, 13/19478-8, 11/00436-8, 10/50174-7)

NAGATA, RENATO M.; MORANDINI, ANDRE C.; COLIN, SEAN P.; MIGOTTO, ALVARO E.; COSTELLO, JOHN H.. Transitions in morphologies, fluid regimes, and feeding mechanisms during development of the medusa Lychnorhiza lucerna. Marine Ecology Progress Series, v. 557, p. 145-159, SEP 28 2016. (16/05637-5, 15/01307-8, 10/50174-7, 11/50242-5, 11/00436-8, 14/00824-6, 13/19478-8)

NAGATA, RENATO MITSUO; NOGUEIRA JUNIOR, MIODELI; HADDAD, MARIA ANGELICA. Faunistic survey of Hydromedusae (Cnidaria, Medusozoa) from the coast of Parana State, Southern Brazil. Zootaxa, v. 3768, n. 3, p. 291-326, FEB 26 2014. (11/00436-8, 11/09880-8)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

NAGATA, Renato Mitsuo. Morphofunctional bases of feeding and the trophic role of Lychnorhiza lucerna. 2015. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Biociências (IBIOC/SB) São Paulo.