Abundance of Cnidaria and Ctenophora taxa in the North Atlantic sampled during the G. O. Sars Cruise in May 2013

• Main Authors: Licandro, Priscilla, Aino, Hosia
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2014
• Subjects: Event label; Method/Device of event; Date/Time of event; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; DEPTH, water; Depth, top/min; Depth, bottom/max; Aeginura grimaldii; Aglantha digitale; Anthomedusae; Atolla parva; Atolla sp.; Atolla wyvillei; Beroe abyssicola; Beroe cucumis; Beroe gracilis; Beroe spp., larvae; Beroe spp.; Bolinopsis infundibulum; Bolinopsis spp.; Botrynema brucei; Calycophorae; Chromatonema rubrum; Chuniphyes multidentata; Clytia islandica; Clytia spp.; Cosmetira pilosella; Crossota rufobrunnea; Crossota sp.; Crystallophyes amygdalina; Ctenophora, larvae; Cydippida; Cydippida, larvae; Dimophyes arctica; Euplokamis spp.; Gilia reticulata; Halicreas minimum; Halicreatidae; Halopsis ocellata; Heteropyramis crystallina; Hybocodon spp.; Hydractinia areolata; Hydromedusae; Lensia achilles; Lensia conoidea; Lensia hunter; Lensia spp.; Leptomedusae; Marrus orthocanna; Mertensia ovum; Mertensiidae, larvae; Mitrocomella polydiademata; Modeeria rotunda; Muggiaea bargmannea; Nanomia cara; Obelia spp.; Pantachogon haeckeli; Pantachogon spp.; Periphylla periphylla; Physonectae; Physonectae, larva; Rhopalonematidae; Sminthea arctica; Solmissus incisa; Sphaeronectes spp.; Tiaropsis multicirrata; Trachymedusae; Vogtia serrata; Zanclea spp.; Jellyfish net; MOCNESS opening/closing plankton net; Counting; GS13/107; G. O. Sars 2003; Basin Scale Analysis, Synthesis and Integration EURO-BASIN; Cara; Rotunda; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.829702; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.829702

In recent years a global increase in jellyfish (i.e. Cnidarians and Ctenophores) abundance and a rise in the recurrence of jellyfish outbreak events have been largely debated, but a general consensus on this matter has not been achieved yet. Within this debate, it has been generally recognized that there is a lack of reliable data that could be analyzed and compared to clarify whether indeed jellyfish are increasing throughout the world ocean as a consequence of anthropogenic impact and hydroclimatic variability. During the G.O. Sars cruise jellyfish were collected at different depths in the 0-1000m layer using a standard 1 m**2 Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System (MOCNESS) (quantitative data), Harstad and macroplankton trawls (qualitative data). The comparison of records collected with different nets during the G.O. Sars transatlantic cruise shows that different sampling gears might provide very different information on jellyfish diversity. Indeed, the big trawls mostly collect relatively large scyphozoan and hydrozoan species such as Atolla, Pelagia, Praya, Vogtia, while small hydrozoans (e.g. Clytia, Gilia, Muggiaea) and early stages of ctenophora are only caught by the smaller nets. : The research leading to these results received (partial/full) funding from the European Commission FP7 EURO-BASIN (European Basin-Scale Analysis, Synthesis, and Integration; Grant Agreement 264 933).