Jellyfish Sightings Along the Italian Coastline from 2009 to 2017
Citation
Boero Ferdinando, Piraino Stefano, Zampardi Serena; (2019) - Jellyfish sightings along the Italian coastline from 2009 to 2017 https://dx.doi.org/10.14284/345 accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-05-30.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.Taxonomic Coverages
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Cnidariarank: phylum
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Ctenophorarank: phylum
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Thaliacearank: class
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Thaliacearank: class
Geographic Coverages
EurOBIS calculated BBOX > station Bounding Box
MED, Adriatic Sea
MED, Ionian Sea
MED, Ligurian Sea
MED, Tyrrhenian Sea
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Ferdinando Boerooriginator
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
Stefano Piraino
originator
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
Serena Zampardi
originator
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
Ferdinando Boero
metadata author
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
Serena Zampardi
metadata author
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
Serena Zampardi
administrative point of contact
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences