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Transitions of Mnemiopsis leidyi (Ctenophora: Lobata) from a native to an exotic species: a review
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The foundations of the ctenophore’s invasive success, which include the source-sink dynamics that characterize Mnemiopsis populations in temperate coastal waters, are reviewed, and the variables most likely to determine whether introduction of Mnemiops to a novel community results in an inconspicuous addition or a disruptive invasion are reviewed.Abstract:
The genus Mnemiopsis is comprised of a single species, Mnemiopsis leidyi A. Agassiz, 1865, that has recently made the transition from a distribution limited to the Atlantic coasts of North and South America to an invasive range that includes the Black, Caspian, Mediterranean, North, and Baltic seas. We review the foundations of the ctenophore’s invasive success, which include the source-sink dynamics that characterize Mnemiopsis populations in temperate coastal waters where the ctenophore achieves its highest biomass levels and ecosystem impacts. Within its native temperate range, Mnemiopsis is frequently a dominant, seasonal, colonizing species with limited dispersal capacities. Cross-oceanic transport within ballast waters of intercontinental shipping vessels has altered this dispersal limitation and initiated a rapid global spread of Mnemiopsis. Owing to continuing transport via transoceanic shipping, we anticipate continued range expansion and review the variables most likely to determine whether introduction of Mnemiopsis to a novel community results in an inconspicuous addition or a disruptive invasion.read more
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Jellyfish and Ctenophore Blooms Coincide with Human Proliferations and Environmental Perturbations
TL;DR: Evidence suggesting that human activities--specifically, seafood harvest, eutrophication, hard substrate additions, transport of nonindigenous species, aquaculture, and climate change--may benefit jelly populations is explored, which shows abundant jellies in areas with warm temperatures and low forage fish populations.
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Invasive species in the Northeastern and Southwestern Atlantic Ocean: A review.
TL;DR: The present study searched for available literature and databases on shipping and invasive species in the North-eastern (NE) and South-western (SW) Atlantic Ocean and assess the risk represented by the shipping trade between these two regions to bring the exchange of ballast water between the two regions under control.
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New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (July 2018)
Niki Chartosia,Dimitris Anastasiadis,Hocein Bazairi,Fabio Crocetta,Alan Deidun,Marija Despalatović,Vincenzo Di Martino,Nikos Dimitriou,Branko Dragičević,Jakov Dulčić,Furkan Durucan,Deniz Hasbek,Vlasios Ketsilis-Rinis,Periklis Kleitou,Lovrenc Lipej,Armando Macali,Agnese Marchini,Mariam Ousselam,Stefano Piraino,Bessy Stancanelli,Marilena Theodosiou,Francesco Tiralongo,Valentina Todorova,Domen Trkov,Sercan Yapıcı +24 more
TL;DR: New records are given for 15 species (4 native and 9 alien and 2 cryptogenic), belonging to 6 Phyla, from 10 Mediterranean countries, showing that this species has extended its range in a very short time.
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Ocean current connectivity propelling the secondary spread of a marine invasive comb jelly across western Eurasia
Cornelia Jaspers,Cornelia Jaspers,Bastian Huwer,Elvire Antajan,Aino Hosia,Hans Harald Hinrichsen,Arne Biastoch,Dror L. Angel,Ragnhild Asmus,Christina B. Augustin,Siamak Bagheri,Steven E. Beggs,Thorsten J. S. Balsby,Maarten Boersma,Delphine Bonnet,Jens Tang Christensen,Andreas Dänhardt,Floriane Delpy,Tone Falkenhaug,Galina A. Finenko,Nicholas E. C. Fleming,Veronica Fuentes,Bella S. Galil,Arjan Gittenberger,D. C. Griffin,Holger Haslob,Jamileh Javidpour,Lyudmila Kamburska,Sandra Kube,Victor Langenberg,Maiju Lehtiniemi,Fabien Lombard,Arne M. Malzahn,Macarena Marambio,Veselina Mihneva,Lene Friis Møller,Ulrich Niermann,Melek Işinibilir Okyar,Zekiye Birinci Özdemir,Sophie Pitois,Thorsten B. H. Reusch,Johan Robbens,Kremena Stefanova,Delphine Thibault,Henk W. van der Veer,Lies Vansteenbrugge,Lodewijk van Walraven,Adam Woźniczka +47 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how well initial establishment areas are interconnected to later occupancy regions to test for the potential role of ocean currents driving secondary spread dynamics in order to infer invasion corridors and the source-sink dynamics of a non-native holoplanktonic biological probe species on a continental scale.
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