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Trabajo presentado en el 1st Meeting of the Iberian Ecological Society y XIV AEET Meeting (SIBECOL 2019), celebrados en Barcelona del 4 al 7 de febrero de 2019., Gelatinous zooplankton (cnidarians, ctenophores, tunicates)are gaining increasing interest from researchers and the general public. This is due to their ability to form large blooms that may interfere with human activities and have a strong impact on the affected ecosystems. Early detection and monitoring of such organisms is essential for effective management and mitigation of jellyfish outbreaks. Considering the impacts that jellyfish may have, there is surprisingly little data on their distribution and abundance, that is at least in part due to problems with the sampling and monitoring of these fragile organisms., This study was partially founded by the Slovenian Research Agency and Slovenian Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (Program P1-0237, project “Raziskovalci-2.0-NIB-529024”),the project Medusas Baleares UCA2014020031,the Croatian Science Foundation under the project IP-2014-09-2945 andthe Mljet National Park.