Atmospheric indices allow anticipating the incidence of jellyfish coastal swarms
Jellyfish swarms affect littoral ecosystems, are unpleasant for bathers and jeopardize coastal socio-economic sectors. Anticipating the incidence of jellyfish swarms could be useful for implementing preventive management measures. Macroclimatic indices are good candidates for this type of anticipati...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10.12681/mms.20983 2023-05-15T15:03:50+02:00 Atmospheric indices allow anticipating the incidence of jellyfish coastal swarms BELLIDO, JUAN J. BÁEZ, JOSÉ C. SOUVIRON-PRIEGO, LUCRECIA FERRI-YAÑEZ, FRANCISCO SALAS, CARMEN LÓPEZ, JUAN ANTONIO REAL, RAIMUNDO Diputación de Málaga Málaga Coastal Townships Alboran Sea Strandings and sightings 2005-2018 2020-07-01 https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.20983 https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/hcmr-med-mar-sc/article/view/20983 en eng Hellenic Centre for Marine Research doi:10.12681/mms.20983 https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/hcmr-med-mar-sc/article/view/20983 undefined eJournals Mediterranean Marine Science; Vol 21, No 2 (2020); 289-297 1791-6763 1108-393X Alboran Sea Arctic Oscillation climatic fluctuations Mediterranean Sea North Atlantic Oscillation Pelagia noctiluca Sea Surface Temperature gelatinous zooplankton geo envir Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2020 fttriple https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.20983 2023-01-22T17:57:18Z Jellyfish swarms affect littoral ecosystems, are unpleasant for bathers and jeopardize coastal socio-economic sectors. Anticipating the incidence of jellyfish swarms could be useful for implementing preventive management measures. Macroclimatic indices are good candidates for this type of anticipation since they are macro-ecologically related to oceanographic characteristics that affect marine species after a certain time lag. An increase of jellyfish swarms has been recently reported in the Mediterranean Sea. From 2005 to 2018, jellyfish swarms in the littoral of the province of Malaga (Spain, northwest coast of the Alboran Sea), mainly formed by the mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca), were frequent during summer. We recorded data on jellyfish swarm incidence in the province of Malaga from 2005 to 2018 using the reports in local newspapers, searches in Google Search Engine, and a citizen science application for mobile phones as information sources. With this information, we classified the period in years of low, medium and high incidence of jellyfish swarms. Then, we tested if the known effects of the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) in winter on the sea surface temperature (SST) during the year, which in turn affects the proliferation of jellyfish, could explain the inter-annual variation in this incidence. Our hypothesis significantly explained the variation in the medium versus low incidence of jellyfish swarms, with medium incidence in the summers of higher SST. This suggests that medium incidence of jellyfish swarms was caused by the proliferation of jellyfish. This also suggests that years of medium incidence of jellyfish in the beach during summer could be anticipated by computing the average AO and NAO values of the previous winter. Years of high incidence of swarms could not be explained by this process. We speculate that they may be caused by a change in the distribution of the swarms rather than by proliferation. Jellyfish may be pushed from the pelagic western anticyclonic ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation Zooplankton Unknown Arctic Mediterranean Marine Science |
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Alboran Sea Arctic Oscillation climatic fluctuations Mediterranean Sea North Atlantic Oscillation Pelagia noctiluca Sea Surface Temperature gelatinous zooplankton geo envir BELLIDO, JUAN J. BÁEZ, JOSÉ C. SOUVIRON-PRIEGO, LUCRECIA FERRI-YAÑEZ, FRANCISCO SALAS, CARMEN LÓPEZ, JUAN ANTONIO REAL, RAIMUNDO Atmospheric indices allow anticipating the incidence of jellyfish coastal swarms |
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Jellyfish swarms affect littoral ecosystems, are unpleasant for bathers and jeopardize coastal socio-economic sectors. Anticipating the incidence of jellyfish swarms could be useful for implementing preventive management measures. Macroclimatic indices are good candidates for this type of anticipation since they are macro-ecologically related to oceanographic characteristics that affect marine species after a certain time lag. An increase of jellyfish swarms has been recently reported in the Mediterranean Sea. From 2005 to 2018, jellyfish swarms in the littoral of the province of Malaga (Spain, northwest coast of the Alboran Sea), mainly formed by the mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca), were frequent during summer. We recorded data on jellyfish swarm incidence in the province of Malaga from 2005 to 2018 using the reports in local newspapers, searches in Google Search Engine, and a citizen science application for mobile phones as information sources. With this information, we classified the period in years of low, medium and high incidence of jellyfish swarms. Then, we tested if the known effects of the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) in winter on the sea surface temperature (SST) during the year, which in turn affects the proliferation of jellyfish, could explain the inter-annual variation in this incidence. Our hypothesis significantly explained the variation in the medium versus low incidence of jellyfish swarms, with medium incidence in the summers of higher SST. This suggests that medium incidence of jellyfish swarms was caused by the proliferation of jellyfish. This also suggests that years of medium incidence of jellyfish in the beach during summer could be anticipated by computing the average AO and NAO values of the previous winter. Years of high incidence of swarms could not be explained by this process. We speculate that they may be caused by a change in the distribution of the swarms rather than by proliferation. Jellyfish may be pushed from the pelagic western anticyclonic ... |
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BELLIDO, JUAN J. BÁEZ, JOSÉ C. SOUVIRON-PRIEGO, LUCRECIA FERRI-YAÑEZ, FRANCISCO SALAS, CARMEN LÓPEZ, JUAN ANTONIO REAL, RAIMUNDO |
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BELLIDO, JUAN J. BÁEZ, JOSÉ C. SOUVIRON-PRIEGO, LUCRECIA FERRI-YAÑEZ, FRANCISCO SALAS, CARMEN LÓPEZ, JUAN ANTONIO REAL, RAIMUNDO |
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Atmospheric indices allow anticipating the incidence of jellyfish coastal swarms |
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Atmospheric indices allow anticipating the incidence of jellyfish coastal swarms |
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Atmospheric indices allow anticipating the incidence of jellyfish coastal swarms |
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Atmospheric indices allow anticipating the incidence of jellyfish coastal swarms |
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Atmospheric indices allow anticipating the incidence of jellyfish coastal swarms |
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atmospheric indices allow anticipating the incidence of jellyfish coastal swarms |
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Hellenic Centre for Marine Research |
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