'Double trouble': the expansion of the Suez Canal and marine bioinvasions in the Mediterranean Sea

Bella S. Galil; Ferdinando Boero; Marnie L. Campbell; James T. Carlton; Elizabeth Cook; Simonetta Fraschetti; Stephan Gollasch; Chad L. Hewitt; Anders Jelmert; Enrique Macpherson; Agnese Marchini; Cynthia McKenzie; Dan Minchin; Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi; Henn Ojaveer; Sergej Olenin; Stefano Piraino; Gregory M. Ruiz

doi:10.1007/s10530-014-0778-y

'Double trouble': the expansion of the Suez Canal and marine bioinvasions in the Mediterranean Sea

Bella S. Galil, Ferdinando Boero, Marnie L. Campbell, James T. Carlton, Elizabeth Cook, Simonetta Fraschetti, Stephan Gollasch, Chad L. Hewitt, Anders Jelmert, Enrique Macpherson, Agnese Marchini, Cynthia McKenzie, Dan Minchin, Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi, Henn Ojaveer, Sergej Olenin, Stefano Piraino, Gregory M. Ruiz

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This is ominous news. Expected to double the capacity of the Suez Canal, the expansion is sure to have a diverse range of effects, at local and regional scales, on both the biological diversity and the ecosystem goods and services of the Mediterranean Sea.

Of nearly 700 multicellular non-indigenous species (NIS) currently recognized from the Mediterranean Sea, fully half were introduced through the Suez Canal since 1869 (Galil et al. 2014). This is one of the most potent mechanisms and corridors for invasions by marine species known in the world. Further, molecular methods demonstrate high levels of gene flow between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean populations (Golani and Ritte 1999; Hassan et al. 2003; Bariche and Bernardi 2009).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	973-976
Number of pages	3
Journal	Biological Invasions
Volume	17
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-014-0778-y
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 28 Sept 2014

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Galil, B. S., Boero, F., Campbell, M. L., Carlton, J. T., Cook, E., Fraschetti, S., Gollasch, S., Hewitt, C. L., Jelmert, A., Macpherson, E., Marchini, A., McKenzie, C., Minchin, D., Occhipinti-Ambrogi, A., Ojaveer, H., Olenin, S., Piraino, S., & Ruiz, G. M. (2014). 'Double trouble': the expansion of the Suez Canal and marine bioinvasions in the Mediterranean Sea. Biological Invasions, 17(4), 973-976. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-014-0778-y

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