Rapid coastal survey for targeted alien species associated with floating pontoons in Ireland

By Dan Minchin. 2007

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Twenty alien species were targeted in a rapid assessment of all Irish coasts during 2005 to 2006 at twenty-nine floating pontoon sites consisting of marinas, jetties or fish-farms. Twelve species were found and the survey provided twenty-five new locality records. Four species had not been recorded previously in Ireland. Three of these were tunicates Corella eumyota, Botrylloides violaceus and a cryptogenic Didemnum sp. The fourth species was not targeted, the amphipod Monocorophium insidiosum. The majority of the new locality records (67%) were from the Irish Sea coast. Some of the targeted species were removed from leisure craft hulls: Balanus improvisus, C. eumyota, Corophium mutica, Didemnum sp. and Styela clava.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. G. Lambert
2. Dan Minchin
3. R. Whitlatch

In Global and Planetary Change

1. G. Lambert
2. A. Locke
3. M. Carman
4. Dan Minchin
5. Senjie Lin
6. Huan Zhang
7. L. Stefaniak
8. A. Gittenberger

In Oceanography

1. G. Lambert
2. Dan Minchin
3. A. Locke
4. M. Carman
5. R. Whitlatch

Citations in the corpus

• Alien species of Bugula (Bryozoa) along the Atlantic coasts of Europe (2011, background): “B. neritina was not targeted in Ireland during a rapid assessment study of floating pontoons in 2005-6 (Minchin 2007b) but archived material examined by JSR revealed its presence at Malahide Marina on the east coast of Ireland in January 2006, so it would have been present at this site in 2005,…”
• Genetic conspecificity of the worldwide populations of Didemnum vexillum Kott, 2002. (2009, background): “The invaders grow rapidly and are aggressive competitors with other hard substrate species both native and exotic (e.g., mussels, barnacles, bryozoans) and on both artificial and natural substrates (Figure 1a, Minchin 2007; Osman and Whitlatch 2007; USGS 2008).”
• Adventures of a sea squirt sleuth: unraveling the identity of Didemnum vexillum, a global ascidian invader (2009, background): “It was reported from a marina in Carlingford Lough, Ireland, in 2006 (Minchin and Sides 2006; Minchin 2007).”