Jellyfish and comb jellies in the Baltic Sea: Depth resolved distribution pattern along the salinity gradient of the Baltic Sea during September 2020 - dataset.

ABSTRACT: The biodiversity and distribution of gelatinous macrozooplankton was assessed in the Baltic Sea during September 2020. The dataset includes 40,601 species-specific gelatinous macrozooplankton records, representative of 236,329 gelatinous organisms caught across 73 stations in the south-western, central and northern Baltic Sea. Focus was devoted to changes in depth distributions in relation to salinity and an extended oxygen depletion event in the south-western Baltic Sea. In total, 56 Multinet-midi casts (5 depth-strata), 4 Multinet-maxi casts (9 depth-strata), as well as 17 bongo and 52 WP2 casts were performed from the surface to >3 m above the bottom. Data include depth resolved information on the abundance (m^-3 and m^-2) and size structure of (i) the non-ind

SUBMITTER: Jaspers C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12017932 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature