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Jellyfish Sightings Along the Italian Coastline from 2009 to 2017

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.

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Publication Date
2021-12-02
Title

Jellyfish Sightings Along the Italian Coastline from 2009 to 2017

Abstract

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.

Dataset Language

en

 
Dataset Creator
  National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences - Ferdinando Boero

Dataset Creator
  National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences - Stefano Piraino

Dataset Creator
  National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences - Serena Zampardi

Metadata Provider
  Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

BE

https://www.vliz.be
Dataset Contact
  National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences - Serena Zampardi

Keywords (ASFA)
  • Citizen science

  • Gelatinous zooplankton

  • Jellyplankton: jellyfish blooms

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

EurOBIS calculated BBOX > station Bounding Box

Bounding Box

West Bounding Coordinate

7.580715

East Bounding Coordinate

18.519819

North Bounding Coordinate

45.930454

South Bounding Coordinate

35.494938

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

MED, Adriatic Sea

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

MED, Ionian Sea

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

MED, Ligurian Sea

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

MED, Tyrrhenian Sea

Temporal Coverage

Range of Dates

Begin Date

2009-01-01

End Date

2017-01-01

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1267

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

phylum

Taxonomic Rank Value

Cnidaria

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1248

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

phylum

Taxonomic Rank Value

Ctenophora

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:22626

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

class

Taxonomic Rank Value

Thaliacea

License Information

Intellectual Rights

To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the

Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

. Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

 
 

Additional Metadata

describes

Extra metadata added by VLIZ to add parameter, platform info, as well as GBIF fields

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parameter

Abundance

GBIF Metadata Block

Date Stamp

2021-12-02T15:42:35+01:00

Hierarchy Level

dataset

Citation

Boero Ferdinando, Piraino Stefano, Zampardi Serena; (2019) - Jellyfish sightings along the Italian coastline from 2009 to 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.14284/345

Physical

Object Name

Online dataset

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

HTML

Distribution

Online

URL
https://www.emodnet-biology.eu/portal/index.php?dasid=5975

Physical

Object Name

Online dataset

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

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Distribution

Online

URL
https://www.emodnet-biology.eu/toolbox/en/download/occurrence/dataset/5975

Physical

Object Name

Online dataset

Character Encoding

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Data Format

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Format Name

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Distribution

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URL
https://obis.org/dataset/2988d0f0-e51c-493b-8f6f-9a88a0fb6435

Physical

Object Name

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Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

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Distribution

Online

URL
https://mda.vliz.be/directlink.php?fid=VLIZ_00000105_5c7d2473e88d5

Physical

Object Name

Metadata

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

HTML

Distribution

Online

URL
http://www.eurobis.org//imis?dasid=5975