Spatial, monthly, and interannual distribution patterns of the non-indigenous Peach Blossom Jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii in British Columbian freshwater systems

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A globally distributed aquatic non-indigenous species is the hydrozoan Craspedacusta sowerbii. The species' northern distribution boundary in North America is situated in British Columbia (BC), Canada. It is thus of paramount interest to understand its spatiotemporal ecology in the invaded warming habitat, which would allow knowledge transfer to other regions. Currently, C. sowerbii has been reported in BC since August 1990 in 34 freshwater systems (3 on the Lower Mainland, 11 on the Sunshine Coast, 17 on Vancouver Island, and 3 at other locations). These freshwater systems (lakes, ponds, and quarries) are generally shallow (< 10 m), most often of a natural origin, and have a small surface area (< 0.1 km²). A nearly exponential trend of medusa observations from 1990 till the end of the 2020s is noticeable. The first seasonal records are in July and the latest in October, while sighting peaks are reported in August and September.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.967507
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.3354/ab00742
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.967507
Provenance
Creator Lüskow, Florian ORCID logo; Pakhomov, Evgeny A
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 371 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-127.518W, 48.437S, -119.448E, 50.865N); British Columbia, Canada