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Scientists have created the world’s first global database that maps two centuries of jellyfish populations in the world’s oceans. Debate regarding future trends and effects of jellyfish and jellyfish blooms is hampered by a lack of information about jellyfish biomass and distribution from which to compare. The Jellyfish Database Initiative, or JeDI, maps jellyfish biomass in the world’s oceans and explores the underlying environmental causes that drive their patterns of distribution. The database currently includes more than 476,000 data items on jellyfish and other gelatinous taxa. JeDI has been designed as an open‐access database for anyone to use as a current and future research tool and a data hub for general information on jellyfish populations.
Posted on: Sun, 18 May 2014 15:25:34 +0000

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