Gelatinous Zooplankton in Gotland, Sweden, 2022

Sampling event Observation
Latest version published by OBIS Secretariat on May 8, 2025 OBIS Secretariat
Publication date:
8 May 2025
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Description

Video footage from seagrass meadows around Gotland, originally collected in 2022 to study seagrass-associated fish, was reanalyzed to estimate jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) abundance. Footage was obtained at six sites using a GoPro HERO 5 Black camera towed horizontally over seagrass-dominated soft bottoms at depths of 2.1–6.9 m. The camera, positioned 80–100 cm above the seafloor, captured transects 55 m in length during morning and evening sessions. Sixty transects were recorded, 10 transects per site, with video durations averaging 4 minutes. Jellyfish abundance was estimated by calculating the volume of water filmed, modeled as a triangular prism based on the camera’s field of view and orientation (perpendicular or tilted 70°). Additional measurements included surface and bottom temperatures, as well as wind speed and direction, retrieved from external sources. Full calculation details are provided in the associated paper, Luskow et al 2025.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 66 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
66
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
510
Occurrence 
60

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Lüskow F, Lawrence E (2025). Gelatinous Zooplankton in Gotland, Sweden, 2022. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Samplingevent dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/skulof

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Keywords

Samplingevent; Observation

Contacts

Florian Lüskow
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Uppsala University
SE
Elizabeth Lawrence
  • Originator ●
  • Processor
UNESCO-IOC Project Office for IODE
Lina Mtwana Nordlund
  • Principal Investigator
Uppsala University
SE

Geographic Coverage

Sampling sites around Gotland, Sweden

Bounding Coordinates South West [56.867, 17.952], North East [58.066, 19.424]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Species Aurelia aurita (Common jellyfish)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2022-08-14 / 2022-09-16

Project Data

No Description available

Title BioEcoOcean
Funding This project was funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 101136748 (BioEcoOcean). Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

The personnel involved in the project:

Florian Lüskow
  • Author
Lina Mtwana Nordlund
  • Principal Investigator

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Lüskow, F., Neitzel, P., Lawrence, E. R., & Mtwana Nordlund, L. (2025). Jellyfish and Ctenophores Around Gotland in the Baltic Sea—Local Data Contributing to Global Assessments. In Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (Vol. 852, Number 13). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse13050852 https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse13050852

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