Beyond the jellyfish joyride and global oscillations: advancing jellyfish research

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dc.contributor.authorGibbons, Mark J.
dc.contributor.authorRichardson, Anthony J.
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-19T10:21:18Z
dc.date.available2017-10-19T10:21:18Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThere 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.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Science
dc.identifier.citationGibbons, M. J. & Richardson, A. J. (2013). Beyond the jellyfish joyride and global oscillations: advancing jellyfish research. Journal of Plankton Research, 35(5): 929 – 938en_US
dc.identifier.issn0142-7873
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbt063
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3242
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbt063
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectJellyfishen_US
dc.subjectBloomen_US
dc.subjectImpactsen_US
dc.subjectManagementen_US
dc.subjectDebateen_US
dc.titleBeyond the jellyfish joyride and global oscillations: advancing jellyfish researchen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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