Uncommon Mass Beaching of Porpita porpita (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Gulf of Mannar, Tamil Nadu, India

A four-decade data of jellyfish aggregation from 1980 to 2020 were taken to discern whether there has been an actual rise in jellyfish swarm in Indian coastal and estuarine waters. Despite frequent jellyfish aggregations and beach strandings in Indian waters, jellyfish aggregations have been poorly investigated and there is a dearth of information on the swarm-forming jellyfish, their preferred season, and the location of swarming. Therefore, our review aims to account for the frequency of swarming phenomenon annually and the appearance of new swarm-forming jellyfish species. The term ‘jellyfish’ refers to the medusae stage of phylum Cnidaria (Cubozoa, Hydrozoa, and Scyphozoa) only in this review. The present work postulates a geospatial spread and swarm-forming jellyfish species to increase in recent times. More than 23 coastal locations of India have witnessed jellyfish aggregations and beach stranding in the last four decades. Seasonal oceanographic conditions prevailing during the summer monsoon, fall, and early winter promoted jellyfish aggregations and swarming. Only two jellyfish species were known to form aggregates during 1981–1990, but the diversity of jellyfish species increased to nine by 2011–2020. The development of predictive models from remote sensing data can be useful to warn humans and coastal industries of the approaching swarm.

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The rising swarms of jellyfish in Indian waters: the environmental drivers, ecological, and socio-economic impacts

Siddique

Purushothaman

Madhusoodhanan

et al. 2022

Journal of Water and Climate Change

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Bibliometric Study: Natural and Engineering Sciences

Veerappan

et al. 2024

Natural and Engineering Sciences

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Bibliometric analysis is a useful technique for assessing the impact of publishing in the scientific community. It is a statistical assessment of published scientific articles, books, or book chapters. The number of times a research paper has been mentioned by other writers indicates its importance. A bibliometric analysis of the natural and engineering sciences is presented in this work. The journal is an electronic publication that is peer-reviewed and multidisciplinary, with an e-ISSN of 2458-8989. In this study the publication and citation statistics of journals in the natural and engineering sciences from 2020 to 2024 are examined. Research in the physical, biological, and engineering sciences is the main focus in NES Journals. Environmental science, materials engineering, biotechnology, and applied physics include a few of the subjects covered by these journals. Our bibliometric analysis provides scientific research output with evidence-based descriptions and visuals.

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Uncommon Mass Beaching of Porpita porpita (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Gulf of Mannar, Tamil Nadu, India

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The rising swarms of jellyfish in Indian waters: the environmental drivers, ecological, and socio-economic impacts

The rising swarms of jellyfish in Indian waters: the environmental drivers, ecological, and socio-economic impacts

Bibliometric Study: Natural and Engineering Sciences

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