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Multi-platform study of the extreme bloom of the barrel jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) in the northernmost gulf of the Mediterranean Sea (Gulf of Trieste) in April 2021
Nydia Catalina Reyes Suárez
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Oceanography Department, National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics – OGS, Trieste, Italy
Oceanography Department, National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics – OGS, Trieste, Italy
Laura Ursella
Oceanography Department, National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics – OGS, Trieste, Italy
Matjaž Ličer
Slovenian Environment Agency, Ljubljana, Slovenia
National Institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station, Piran, Slovenia
Massimo Celio
Regional Environmental Protection Agency of Friuli Venezia Giulia – FVG, Palmanova, Udine, Italy
Vanessa Cardin
Oceanography Department, National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics – OGS, Trieste, Italy
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Short summary
Explaining the dynamics of jellyfish blooms is a challenge for scientists. Biological and meteo-oceanographic data were combined on different timescales to explain the exceptional bloom of the jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo in the Gulf of Trieste (Adriatic Sea) in April 2021. The bloom was associated with anomalously warm seasonal sea conditions. Then, a strong bora wind event enhanced upwelling and mixing of the water column, causing jellyfish to rise to the surface and accumulate along the coast.
Explaining the dynamics of jellyfish blooms is a challenge for scientists. Biological and...
