Ecological traits and environmental affinity explain Red Sea fish introduction into the Mediterranean

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1373-1382

  Belmaker, Jonathan ^a   Parravicini, Valeriano ^b,c   Kulbicki, Michel ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c Domain du Petit Arbois   (France)

Author keywords

Bioinvasion; Introduction; Lessepsian migration; Marine; Reef fish; Tropicalization

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FISH; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POPULATION MIGRATION; REEF; REINTRODUCTION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FISH; GEOGRAPHY; INDIAN OCEAN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; INDIAN OCEAN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PHENOTYPE;

EGYPT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); RED SEA [(GVR) EGYPT]; SUEZ CANAL;

EID: 84875848735     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12132     Document Type: Article

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