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

Biological Invasions

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 973-976

  Galil, Bella S ^a   Boero, Ferdinando ^b   Campbell, Marnie L ^c   Carlton, James T ^d   Cook, Elizabeth ^e   Fraschetti, Simonetta ^b   Gollasch, Stephan ^f   Hewitt, Chad L ^c   Jelmert, Anders ^g   Macpherson, Enrique ^h   Marchini, Agnese ⁱ   McKenzie, Cynthia ^j   Minchin, Dan ^k   Occhipinti Ambrogi, Anna ⁱ   Ojaveer, Henn ^l   Olenin, Sergej ^m   Piraino, Stefano ^b   Ruiz, Gregory M ⁿ  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^d Williams Mystic   (United States)

^e Scottish Marine Institute   (United Kingdom)

^f GoConsult   (Germany)

^g INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^h CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^j NORTHWEST ATLANTIC FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

^k Killaloe Co Clare   (Ireland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^m KLAIPEDA UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

ⁿ SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 84925460822     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: 15731464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-014-0778-y     Document Type: Letter

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