First records and presence over time of the cubozoan Carybdea marsupialis (Linnaeus, 1758) on the southwestern Spanish coast (Northeast Atlantic)

Rodríguez‐García, Carlos; Sanz‐Fernández, Víctor; Muñoz‐Lechuga, Rubén; Gutiérrez-Martínez, M.; Cabrera-Castro, Remedios

doi:10.1016/j.rsma.2021.101712

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“…While the abundance of cubozoans in coastal waters is generally low and uneven (Kingsford & Mooney, 2014), there are certain locations where their density can reach high numbers. Examples include Alatina moseri in Hawaii, Alatina alata in the Caribbean Netherlands and Alatina mordens in Australia (Lawley et al, 2016), as well as C. marsupialis on the south-western Spanish coast, northeast Atlantic (Rodríguez-García et al, 2021) and the Western Mediterranean, where they can be responsible for most of the stings that occur on some beaches where this species is present as a resident species since it is not advected by currents in its adult stage (Bordehore et al, 2011; Bordehore et al, 2020).…”

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Integrating complexity in population modelling: from matrix to dynamic models using the jellyfishCarybdea marsupialis

Flores-García,

Yañez-Dobson,

Fonfría

et al. 2024

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Matrix models are widely used in population ecology studies and are valuable for analysing population dynamics. Nonetheless, this approach is somewhat rigid in terms of generating complex scenarios. Starting from the values of the transition matrix, we can build a dynamic model to incorporate more biological-based reality into the model (e.g. polyp stage) and provide a higher flexibility in generating scenarios. As an example, we used the transition matrix calculated for a time series data of a population of the box jellyfishCarybdea marsupialis(L. 1758) in the Western Mediterranean in a previously published study. Dynamic models can help us to better understand the complex relationships that drive populations, test different hypotheses and compare scenarios. The dynamic model was developed in STELLA Architect, calibrated and optimised and it has been used to simulate various scenarios of ecological interest, including a decline in food supply, jellyfish removal strategies, changes in drift currents and changes in substrate availability for planulae to settle. A sensitivity analysis showed that polyp strobilation rate and strobilation pattern were two of the most sensitive variables. This matrix-to-dynamic model approach could be useful to integrate more biological complexity into population models and, in turn, obtain a better fit to the field data.

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