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Ulman A, Ferrario J, Occhpinti-Ambrogi A, et al. A massive update of non-indigenous species records in Mediterranean marinas. PeerJ. 2017;5:e3954doi: 10.7717/peerj.3954.
Ulman, A., Ferrario, J., Occhpinti-Ambrogi, A., Arvanitidis, C., Bandi, A., Bertolino, M., Bogi, C., Chatzigeorgiou, G., Çiçek, B. A., Deidun, A., Ramos-Esplá, A., Koçak, C., Lorenti, M., Martinez-Laiz, G., Merlo, G., Princisgh, E., Scribano, G., & Marchini, A. (2017). A massive update of non-indigenous species records in Mediterranean marinas. PeerJ, 5e3954. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3954
Ulman, Aylin, et al. "A massive update of non-indigenous species records in Mediterranean marinas." PeerJ vol. 5 (2017): e3954. doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3954
Ulman A, Ferrario J, Occhpinti-Ambrogi A, Arvanitidis C, Bandi A, Bertolino M, Bogi C, Chatzigeorgiou G, Çiçek BA, Deidun A, Ramos-Esplá A, Koçak C, Lorenti M, Martinez-Laiz G, Merlo G, Princisgh E, Scribano G, Marchini A. A massive update of non-indigenous species records in Mediterranean marinas. PeerJ. 2017 Oct 24;5:e3954. doi: 10.7717/peerj.3954. eCollection 2017. PMID: 29085752; PMCID: PMC5659216.
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PeerJ. 2017 Oct 24;5:e3954. doi: 10.7717/peerj.3954. eCollection 2017.

A massive update of non-indigenous species records in Mediterranean marinas.

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Aylin Ulman, Jasmine Ferrario, Anna Occhpinti-Ambrogi, Christos Arvanitidis, Ada Bandi, Marco Bertolino, Cesare Bogi, Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou, Burak Ali Çiçek, Alan Deidun, Alfonso Ramos-Esplá, Cengiz Koçak, Maurizio Lorenti, Gemma Martinez-Laiz, Guenda Merlo, Elisa Princisgh, Giovanni Scribano, Agnese Marchini

Affiliations

  1. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
  2. Laboratoire d'Ecogéochimie des Environnements Benthiques, Université Pierre et Marie-Curie, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France.
  3. Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Center of Marine Research, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
  4. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra dell'Ambiente e della Vita (DISTAV), Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy.
  5. Gruppo Malacologico Livornese, Livrono, Italy.
  6. Department of Biological Sciences, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus, via Mersin 10, Turkey.
  7. Department of Geosciences, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
  8. Marine Research Centre (CIMAR), University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
  9. Department of Hydrobiology, Faculty of Fisheries, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.
  10. Center of Villa Dohrn-Benthic Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Ischia, Italy.
  11. Department of Zoology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.

PMID: 29085752 PMCID: PMC5659216 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3954

Abstract

The Mediterranean Sea is home to over 2/3 of the world's charter boat traffic and hosts an estimated 1.5 million recreational boats. Studies elsewhere have demonstrated marinas as important hubs for the stepping-stone transfer of non-indigenous species (NIS), but these unique anthropogenic, and typically artificial habitats have largely gone overlooked in the Mediterranean as sources of NIS hot-spots. From April 2015 to November 2016, 34 marinas were sampled across the following Mediterranean countries: Spain, France, Italy, Malta, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus to investigate the NIS presence and richness in the specialized hard substrate material of these marina habitats. All macroinvertebrate taxa were collected and identified. Additionally, fouling samples were collected from approximately 600 boat-hulls from 25 of these marinas to determine if boats host diverse NIS not present in the marina. Here, we present data revealing that Mediterranean marinas indeed act as major hubs for the transfer of marine NIS, and we also provide evidence that recreational boats act as effective vectors of spread. From this wide-ranging geographical study, we report here numerous new NIS records at the basin, subregional, country and locality level. At the basin level, we report three NIS new to the Mediterranean Sea (

Keywords: Alien species; Distribution; Expansion; Macroinvertebrates; New records; Pathways; Recreational boating; Vectors

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there are no competing interests.

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