IMIS

Jellyfish Sightings Along the Italian Coastline from 2009 to 2017

Citable as data publication

Boero Ferdinando, Piraino Stefano, Zampardi Serena (2019). Jellyfish sightings along the Italian coastline from 2009 to 2017. Marine Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.14284/345

Contact: Zampardi, Serena ; Boero, Ferdinando ; Piraino, Stefano

Access data

Archived data

Availability:

To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with this dataset has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset.

Description

The lack of gelatinous blooms data reveals scant attention to such phenomena due to their irregular occurrence (Boero et al. 2008), to modern publication trends that give no importance to observations (Boero 2013b), to current monitoring programs that usually do not cover jellyfish (Riisgård et al. 2012) and to the lack of remote sensing tools to detect jellyfish. From 2009 the Italian project Occhio alla Medusa started involving citizens to record sightings of gelatinous organisms. In 2010 till 2015, the Italian popular science magazine FOCUS supported the campaign dedicating a webpage and releasing a smartphone app to upload records. more

From 2013 we started to collect data also from the web. In 2016 we opened a facebook page “Meteo Meduse” to replace the app. Species of gelatinous macrozooplancton including Cnidaria, Ctenophora, and Thaliacea, have been sighted by citizens recording date of observation, species name or genus, location, abundance as number of individuals per square meter, coordinates and a picture. We validate about 6000 records of bloom events from 2009-2017 and the collection is still continuing by email and the fb page.

Lineage

Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output

Scope

Themes:

Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Citizen science · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Gelatinous zooplankton · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Jellyplankton: jellyfish blooms · MED, Ionian Sea · MED, Ligurian Sea · MED, Tyrrhenian Sea · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · National · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Adriatic Sea · Ionian Sea · Ligurian Sea · Tyrrhenian Sea · Aequorea forskalea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 · Aurelia aurita (Linnaeus, 1758) · Carybdea marsupialis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Cassiopea andromeda (Forskål, 1775) · Chrysaora hysoscella (Linnaeus, 1767) · Cnidaria · Cotylorhiza tuberculata (Macri, 1778) · Ctenophora · Mnemiopsis leidyi A. Agassiz, 1865 · Pelagia noctiluca (Forsskål, 1775) · Porpita porpita (Linnaeus, 1758) · Rhizostoma pulmo (Macri, 1778) · Salpa maxima Forskål, 1775 · Thaliacea · Velella velella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geographical coverage

Adriatic Sea [Marine Regions]

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 7,5807; MinLat: 35,4949 - MaxLong: 18,5198; MaxLat: 45,9305 [WGS84]

Ionian Sea [Marine Regions]

Ligurian Sea [Marine Regions]

Tyrrhenian Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

2009 - 2017

Taxonomic coverage

Aequorea forskalea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 [WoRMS]

Aurelia aurita (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]