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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 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. Scope Themes: Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Citizen science, Gelatinous zooplankton, Jellyplankton: jellyfish blooms, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, Adriatic Sea, MED, Ionian Sea, MED, Ligurian Sea, MED, Tyrrhenian Sea, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Thaliacea, Thaliacea Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 7,5807; MinLat: 35,4949 - MaxLong: 18,5198; MaxLat: 45,9305 [WGS84] MED, Adriatic Sea [Marine Regions] MED, Ionian Sea [Marine Regions] MED, Ligurian Sea [Marine Regions] MED, Tyrrhenian Sea [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage 2009 - 2017 Parameters Abundance Abundance category of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Contributors National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences (CoNISMa), more, data creator Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Citizen science Metadatarecord created: 2018-07-18 Information last updated: 2019-03-04 | ||||
