Presence of gelatinous zooplankton enhances the rate of hydrocarbon degradation

The dataset contains raw still images of oil droplet/mucus aggregates from jellyfish as well as oil droplets in the surrounding water column. Also included are the resulting processed images identifying location, number and size of oil droplets used in the manuscript analysis. The dataset also includes spreadsheets with data from the resulting images as well as spreadsheets with data on bacterial counts and total alkanes (hydrocarbons) measured during experiments. This dataset supports the publication Gemmell, B. J., Bacosa, H. Lui, Z., Buskey, E. J. 2016. Can gelatinous zooplankton influence the fate of crude oil in marine environments? Marine Pollution Bulletin. In Press. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.08.065