EDI Staging Environment
These are the datasets used to create all figures included in: Lilly et al. (in review). A Global Review of Pyrosomes: Shedding light on the ocean’s elusive gelatinous ‘fire-bodies’. The review presents a comprehensive global description of the body of current knowledge on pyrosomes, a zooplanktonic tunicate taxon closely related to salps, doliolids, and appendicularians.
For review analyses, we used pyrosome observations and associated information from literature-published studies, the BCO-DMO Jellyfish Database Initiative (JeDI; Condon et al., 2014; https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/526852), the NOAA COPEPOD Urochordates database (NOAA, 2022; https://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/copepod/atlas/html/taxatlas_4350000.html), SeaWiFS chlorophyll-a (Melin, 2013; https://data.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset/d6f9abd9-777c-4a0c-a5f7-669612f83307), and NOAA Optimal Interpolation sea surface temperature (NOAA Office of Satellite and Product Operations; https://www.psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.noaa.oisst.v2.html). This metadata record and associated files are the subset, adjusted files we used from each of those databases.
We include a two-part MATLAB script that can be run to reproduce all figures in the manuscript. Figures include: 1) Locations of all pyrosome observations, from literature studies, JeDI, and COPEPOD; 2) Temperature and chlorophyll-a 'habitat envelopes' for pyrosome observations. Note that we plot separate envelopes: i) JeDI+COPEPOD observations versus NOAA OISST and SeaWiFS Chl-a, and ii) literature observations versus their corresponding measured in situ temperature and chlorophyll-a values; 3) Depths and DVM distances of pyrosome observations from JeDI and literature studies; S1) Number of pyrosome 'Presence' samples compared to total sampling effort from the COPEPOD database; and S2) Densities of pyrosome colonies in observations from COPEPOD and literature studies.
EDI is a collaboration between the University of New Mexico and the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Center for Limnology:
