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. 200 Year Adriatic Sea Jellyfish Data, 1790-2009 klr.37.5 (http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/metacat/klr.37.5/nceas)

General Information:
Title:	200 Year Adriatic Sea Jellyfish Data, 1790-2009
Identifier:	klr.37
Keywords:	Jellyfish Mediterranean Aurelia aurita Chrysaora hysoscella Cotylorhiza tuberculata Pelagia noctiluca Rhizostoma pulmo Categorical abundance

Data Table, Image, and Other Data Details:
Metadata download:	Ecological Metadata Language (EML) File
Data Table:	JEDI Template.txt ( View Metadata )

Involved Parties

Data Set Creators:

Individual:

Dr. Alenka Malej

Organization:

National Institute of Biology, Slovenia

Position:

Science Councillor, Head of program group II

Phone:

+386 (0)5 9232903 (voice)

Email Address:

Alenka.Malej@mbss.org

Data Set Contacts:

Individual:

Dr. Alenka Malej

Organization:

National Institute of Biology, Slovenia

Position:

Science Councillor, Head of program group II

Phone:

+386 (0)5 9232903 (voice)

Email Address:

Alenka.Malej@mbss.org

Associated Parties:

Individual:

Kelly Robinson

Organization:

Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Position:

PhD candidate

Address:

101 Bienville Drive,

Dauphin Island, Alabama 36528

Email Address:

krobinson@disl.com

Individual:

Dr. William "Monty" Graham

Organization:

Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Position:

Senior Marine Scientist II, Associate

Address:

101 Bienville Drive,

Dauphin Island, Alabama 36528 U.S.A

Email Address:

mgraham@disl.com

Individual:

Dr. Robert Condon

Organization:

Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Position:

Research faculty

Address:

101 Bienville Drive,

Dauphin Island, Alabama 36528 U.S.A

Email Address:

rcondon@disl.com

Individual:

Dr. Carlos Duarte

Organization:

European Research Council

Position:

Research Professor Spanish Research Council

Email Address:

carlosduarte@imedea.uib-csic.es

Data Set Characteristics

Geographic Region:

Geographic Description:

Northern Adratic Sea

Bounding Coordinates:

West:	3.625 degrees
East:	28.5 degrees
North:	51.375 degrees
South:	38.625 degrees

Time Period:

Begin:

1790

End:

2009

Taxonomic Range:

Classification:

Rank Name:

Phylum

Rank Value:

Cnidaria

Classification:

Rank Name:

Class

Rank Value:

Scyphozoa

Classification:

Rank Name:

Order

Rank Value:

Rhizostomaeae

Classification:

Rank Name:

Family

Rank Value:

Rhizostomatidae

Classification:

Rank Name:

Genus

Rank Value:

Rhizostoma

Classification:

Rank Name:	Species
Rank Value:	pulmo

Classification:

Rank Name:

Phylum

Rank Value:

Cnidaria

Classification:

Rank Name:

Class

Rank Value:

Scyphozoa

Classification:

Rank Name:

Order

Rank Value:

Rhizostomeae

Classification:

Rank Name:

Family

Rank Value:

Cepheidae

Classification:

Rank Name:

Genus

Rank Value:

Cotylorhiza

Classification:

Rank Name:	Species
Rank Value:	tuberculata

Classification:

Rank Name:

Phylum

Rank Value:

Cnidaria

Classification:

Rank Name:

Class

Rank Value:

Scyphozoa

Classification:

Rank Name:

Order

Rank Value:

Semaeostomeae

Classification:

Rank Name:

Family

Rank Value:

Pelagiidae

Classification:

Rank Name:

Genus

Rank Value:

Chrysaora

Classification:

Rank Name:	Species
Rank Value:	hysoscella

Classification:

Rank Name:

Phylum

Rank Value:

Cnidaria

Classification:

Rank Name:

Class

Rank Value:

Scyphozoa

Classification:

Rank Name:

Order

Rank Value:

Semaeostomeae

Classification:

Rank Name:

Family

Rank Value:

Pelagiidae

Classification:

Rank Name:

Genus

Rank Value:

Pelagia

Classification:

Rank Name:	Species
Rank Value:	noctiluca

Classification:

Rank Name:

Phylum

Rank Value:

Cnidaria

Classification:

Rank Name:

Class

Rank Value:

Scyphozoa

Classification:

Rank Name:

Order

Rank Value:

Semaeostomeae

Classification:

Rank Name:

Family

Rank Value:

Ulmaridae

Classification:

Rank Name:

Genus

Rank Value:

Aurelia

Classification:

Rank Name:	Species
Rank Value:	aurita

Sampling, Processing and Quality Control Methods

Step by Step Procedures
Step 1:
Description:	Variety of sampling methods Citations used to compile 200 year dataset: Avian, M. & L. Rottini Sandrini, 1994. History of Scyphomedusae in the Adriatic Sea. Bolletino della Societa Adriatica di Scienze 75: 5–12. Lhotsky (1830) cited in Avian & Rottini Sandrini (1994) Siebold (1839) cited in Avian & Rottini Sandrini (1994) Will (1944) cited in Avian & Rottini Sandrini (1994) Graeffe, E., 1875. Seethierfauna des Golfes von Triest. III. Coelenteraten, Cnidaria. Arbeiten aus dem Zoologischen Institut der Universita¨t Wien und der Zoologischen Station in Triest 5: 333–362. Claus (1876) cited in Avian & Rottini Sandrini (1994) Claus (1883) cited in Avian & Rottini Sandrini (1994) Haeckel (1880) cited in Avian & Rottini Sandrini (1994) Carus (1885) cited in Avian & Rottini Sandrini (1994) Babic´, K., 1913. Planktonicˇki celenterati iz Jadranskog mora. Rad Jugoslavenske Akademije Znanosti i Umjetnosti 200:186–202. Cori, D. J. & A. Steuer, 1901. Beobachtungen u¨ber das Plankton des Triester Golfes in den Jahren 1899 und 1900. Zoologischer Anzeiger 24: 111–116 Steuer, A., 1902. Beobachtungen u¨ber das Plankton des Triester Golfes im Jahre 1901. Zoologischer Anzeiger 25: 371–372. Steuer, A., 1904. Beobachtungen u¨ber das Plankton des Triester Golfes im Jahre 1902. Zoologischer Anzeiger 27: 145–148. Stiasny, G., 1909. Beobachtungen u¨ber die marine Fauna des Triester Golfes im Jahre 1908. Zoologischer Anzeiger 34: 289–294. Stiasny, G., 1910. Beobachtungen u¨ber die marine Fauna des Triester Golfes im Jahre 1909. Zoologischer Anzeiger 35: 583–587. Stiasny, G., 1911. Beobachtungen u¨ber die marine Fauna des Triester Golfes wa¨hrend des Jahres 1910. Zoologischer Anzeiger 37: 517–522. Babic´, K., 1913. Planktonicˇki celenterati iz Jadranskog mora. Rad Jugoslavenske Akademije Znanosti i Umjetnosti 200: 186–202. Stiasny, G., 1912. Beobachtungen u¨ber die marine Fauna des Triester Golfes im Jahre 1911. Zoologischer Anzeiger 39: 604–608. Stiasny, G., 1914. Zwei neue Pelagien aus der Adria. Zoologischer Anzeiger 44: 529–533. Stiasny, G., 1919. Die Scyphomedusen-Sammlung des Naturhistoricshen Reichmuseum in Leiden. Stauromedusae, Coronatae, Semaeostomae. Zoologische Mededelingen 5: 66–99. Szu¨ts, A., 1915. Biologische Beobachtungen wahrend der ersten und zweiten terminfahrt des Ungarischen Adriavereins an S.M.S. ‘‘Najade’’ im Oktober 1913 und im April–Mai 1914. Zoologischer Anzeiger 45: 432–442. Issel, R., 1922. Nuove indagini sul plankton nelle acque di Rovigno. Rapporti Comitato Talassografico Italiano, Memoria 102: 1–36. Neppi (1922) cited in Avian & Rottini Sandrini (1994) Kolosvary 1943 Vio (unpubl.) cited in Avian & Rottini Sandrini (1994) Malej, A., 1982. Unusual occurrence of Pelagia noctiluca in the Adriatic. Acta Adriatica 23(1/2): 97–102 (in Slovenian). Malej, A., 1989. Shifts in size-classes and structure of net zooplankton in the presence of the jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Scyphozoa). Biolosˇki Vestnik 37: 35–46. Malej (2001), unpubl. data Malej, A., 2001. Are irregular plankton phenomena getting more frequent in the northern Adriatic Sea? In Gelatinous Zooplankton Outbreaks: Theory and Practice. CIESM Workshop Series 14, Monaco: 16–18. Del Negro, P., F. Kokelj, A. Tubaro & R. Della Loggia, 1992. Chrysaora hysoscella in the Gulf of Trieste: presence,evolution and cutaneous toxicity in man. Science of the Total Environment (Suppl): 427–430. Milosˇ, Cˇ ., 2009. Biometry and elemental analysis of scyphomedusae in the Gulf of Trieste with emphasis on Rhizostoma pulmo. M.Sc. thesis, University of Zagreb: 81 pp.
Instrument(s):	Collection methods:
Instrument(s):	"The reconstructed time series for the historical
Instrument(s):	occurrences of five scyphomedusae species in the
Instrument(s):	northern Adriatic was assembled from published data
Instrument(s):	sources, reports and theses, and supplemented by our
Instrument(s):	own observations (Table 1). Scientific observations
Instrument(s):	are available for about 200 years from marine
Instrument(s):	observatories in the northern Adriatic. The data are
Instrument(s):	predominantly qualitative or semi-quantitative, but
Instrument(s):	quantitative data on jellyfish abundance are rare. We
Instrument(s):	considered every observation reported for each
Instrument(s):	species, and included them in the time series.
Instrument(s):	In order to avoid the problems associated with
Instrument(s):	descriptive data and to apply robust analyses to this
Instrument(s):	time series, the years of jellyfish occurrence and absence
Instrument(s):	were marked as one and zero, respectively. For
Instrument(s):	P. noctiluca, an additional, more detailed analysis was
Instrument(s):	performed from1976 onwards, because monthly observations
Instrument(s):	were recorded (the jellyfish database of the
Instrument(s):	Marine Biology Station, Piran, Slovenia). Scyphomedusae
Instrument(s):	were monitored by visual observations from the
Instrument(s):	shore and with an underwater camera deployed from
Instrument(s):	boats. Additional information came fromfishermen and
Instrument(s):	similar reliable sources (co-workers, biologists and
Instrument(s):	photographs sent by reporters).
Instrument(s):	Estimation of P. noctiluca abundance during the
Instrument(s):	last two bloom periods in the northern Adriatic
Instrument(s):	(1977–1986 and 2004–2007) was attempted, although
Instrument(s):	the sampling methods were not strictly comparable.
Instrument(s):	Estimates were based on plankton net tows from the
Instrument(s):	bottom to surface using an FAO net with 500-lm
Instrument(s):	mesh (Piccinetti & Piccinetti Manfrin, 1991), a WP2
Instrument(s):	net with 200-lm mesh (Malej, 1989), and a fish trawl
Instrument(s):	with 20-mm stretched net (Milosˇ, 2009)" ( Kogovsˇek 2010).
Instrument(s):	Kogovsˇek T., B Bogunovic´ & A Malej, 2010. Recurrence of bloom-forming scyphomedusae: wavelet analysis of a 200-year time series. Hydrobiologia 645: 81-96.
Instrument(s):	Northern Adriatic Coordinates:
Instrument(s):	A longitude/ latitude off the coast of the Marine Biology Station,National Institute of Biology in Slovenia was chosen to represent the Northern Adriatic Sea for JEDI purposes (44.92438 N, 13.15622 E).
Sampling Area And Frequency:	Notes on longitude/ latitude values for JEDI:
Sampling Description:	Not all coordinates were provided by the author. When a latitude/longitude was missing, a point in the Northern Adriatic was chosen near the study site (45.0261 N, 13.07172 E). If a coordinate was taken, but not visible on the map provided a longitude/latitude was estimated (45.57N 13.55E).

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Involved Parties

Data Set Characteristics

Sampling, Processing and Quality Control Methods

Variety of sampling methods

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