Volume 2, Issue 4
Published December 2007

Special Issue:
“Alien species in European coastal waters”

Guest Editors:

Prof. Geoff Boxshall (The Natural History Museum, UK)
Prof. Ferdinando Boero (University of Lecce, Italy)
Prof. Sergej Olenin (Klaipeda University, Lithuania)

Special issue is supported by the EU Network of Excellence “Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning” (MarBEF) (http://www.marbef.org)

 

Contents

Editorial

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Geoff Boxshall
Alien Species in European Coastal Waters (pp 279-280)

 

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Research articles

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Bella S. Galil
Seeing Red: Alien species along the Mediterranean coast of Israel (pp 281-312)

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Stephan Gollasch and Erkki Leppäkoski
Risk assessment and management scenarios for ballast water mediated species introductions into the Baltic Sea (pp 313-340)

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Dan Minchin
A checklist of alien and cryptogenic aquatic species in Ireland (pp 341-366)

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Daniel B. Harries, Elizabeth Cook, David W. Donnan, James M. Mair, Simon Harrow and John R. Wilson
The establishment of the invasive alga Sargassum muticum on the west coast of Scotland: Rapid northwards spread and identification of potential new areas for colonisation (pp 367-377)

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Martin H. Davis, Jørgen Lützen and Mary E. Davis
The spread of Styela clava Herdman, 1882 (Tunicata, Ascidiacea) in European waters (pp 378-390)

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Daniel Abed-Navandi and Reinhard Kikinger
First record of the tropical scyphomedusa Phyllorhiza punctata von Lendenfeld, 1884 (Cnidaria: Rhizostomeae) in the Central Mediterranean Sea (pp 391-394)

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Hans Ulrik Riisgård, Line Bøttiger, Caroline V. Madsen and Jennifer E. Purcell
Invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in Limfjorden (Denmark) in late summer 2007 - assessment of abundance and predation effects (pp 395-401)

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Marco Faasse and Marianne Ligthart
The American oyster drill, Urosalpinx cinerea (Say, 1822), introduced to The Netherlands – increased risks after ban on TBT? (pp 402-406)

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Alexandra Gubanova and Denis Altukhov
Establishment of Oithona brevicornis Giesbrecht, 1892 (Copepoda: Cyclopoida) in the Black Sea (pp 407-410)

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Elizabeth J. Cook, Marlene Jahnke, Francis Kerckhof, Dan Minchin, Marco Faasse, Karin Boos and Gail Ashton
European expansion of the introduced amphipod Caprella mutica Schurin, 1935 (pp 411-421)

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Eila O. Lahdes and Leena A. Karjala
Implications of water ionic composition for invasion of euryhaline species in inland waters – an experimental study with Cercopagis pengoi from the Northern Baltic Sea (pp 422-430)

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Short communications

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Jan Rueness, Erling Heggøy, Vivian Husa and Kjersti Sjøtun
First report of the Japanese red alga Antithamnion nipponicum (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) in Norway, an invasive species new to northern Europe (pp 431-434)

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Konstantinos Tsiamis and Panayotis Panayotidis
First record of the red alga Asparagopsis taxiformis (Delile) Trevisan de Saint-Léon in Greece (pp 435-438)

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M. Baki Yokes, Engin Meric and Niyazi Avsar
On the Presence of Alien Foraminifera Amphistegina lobifera Larsen on the coasts of the Maltese Islands (pp 439-441)

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Roland Krone, Carsten Wanke and Alexander Schröder
A new record of Styela clava Herdman, 1882 (Urochordata, Ascidiacea) from the central German Bight (pp 442-444)

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Maiju Lehtiniemi, Jari-Pekka Pääkkönen, Juha Flinkman, Tarja Katajisto, Elena Gorokhova, Miina Karjalainen, Satu Viitasalo and Heidi Björk
Distribution and abundance of the American comb jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi) – A rapid invasion to the northern Baltic Sea during 2007 (pp 445-449)

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Urszula Janas and Aleksandra Zgrundo
First record of Mnemiopsis leidyi A. Agassiz, 1865 in the Gulf of Gdańsk (southern Baltic Sea) (pp 450-454)

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Ole Secher Tendal, Kathe R. Jensen and Hans Ulrik Riisgård
Invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi widely distributed in Danish waters (pp 455-460)

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Alper Doğan, Mesut Önen and Bilal Öztürk
A new record of the invasive Red Sea mussel Brachidontes pharaonis (Fischer P., 1870) (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from the Turkish coasts (pp 461-463)

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Murat Sezgin, Eylem Aydemir, A. Suat Ateş, Tuncer Katağan and Tahir Özcan
On the presence of the non-native estuarine shrimp, Palaemon longirostris H.Milne-Edwards, 1837 (Decapoda, Caridea), in the Black Sea (pp 464-465)

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Murat Bilecenoglu
The first record of Monotaxis grandoculis (Forsskål, 1775) (Osteichthyes, Lethrinidae) in the Mediterranean Sea (pp 466-467)

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Alexander Antsulevich
First records of the tubenose goby Proterorhinus marmoratus (Pallas, 1814) in the Baltic Sea (pp 468-470)

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