Beyond the jellyfish joyride and global oscillations: advancing jellyfish research
By M. Gibbons, Anthony J. Richardson. 2013
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There has been debate in the literature recently about increases in jellyfish populations in response to anthropogenic change, and this has attracted widespread media interest. Despite an international collaborative initiative [National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) working group on jellyfish blooms] to investigate trends in global jellyfish numbers, interpretations from the data remain ambiguous. Although this is perhaps to be expected given the diversity of potential drivers, the debate has not been helped by a general lack of rigorous data and loose definitions. There is a need for the community to refocus its attention on understanding the implications of jellyfish blooms and managing them, because regardless of global trends, jellyfish are a problem in some coastal marine ecosystems. Here, we provide recommendations for advancing jellyfish research. These include directing research toward better managing jellyfish impacts, expanding research into socio-economic consequences to grow the money available for research, building more operational and ecosystem models for tactical and strategic management, filling in the gaps in our biological knowledge for supporting models, improving surveillance using observing systems and making jellyfish research more rigorous. Some vehicles to address these recommendations include international standardization of methods, a discipline-specific journal for jellyfish research and an international science program on the global ecology and oceanography of jellyfish.
Subfields: Genetics, Paleontology, Sociology and Political Science
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- Jellyfish, Forage Fish, and the World’s Major Fisheries (2014, background): “This level of research requires a coordinated effort at an international level to bring to bear the extensive expertise available worldwide (Gibbons and Richardson, 2013).”
- Review of Jellyfish Blooms in the Mediterranean and Black Sea (2014, background): “The author states that jellyfish are increasing globally, although this view is not generally held by the scientific community (see references in Gibbons & Richardson 2013).”