Datasets for: A Global Review of Pyrosomes: Shedding light on the ocean’s elusive gelatinous ‘fire-bodies’

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), MODIS-AQUA
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 MODIS-AQUA 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.