Short Term Impacts of Jellyfish Invasion
- Socio-economic impacts include:
- Power Plants shut down
- Electricity cut off
- Lost of more money
- Impacts to humans:
- Severe damage of body or death from jellyfish sting
- Sickness from the Jellyfish toxins
Impacts to the environment:
- Dirty water
- Distribution of Acidity to the ocean
Long Term Impacts of Jellyfish Invasion
Impacts to the Ecosystem:
- Explosion in jellyfish numbers may lead to ecological disaster
- A dramatic global increase in jellyfish swarms could damage marine food chain
- A shift from fish to jellyfish ocean
- A Decline of fish number
- Increase of CO2 and decrease in O2 in the ocean which means more gas is released into the atmosphere
- Jellyfish will come to dominate the sea
- The sea might return to the pre-cambrian era, where jellyfish first rule the world.