Seeing red: alien species along the Mediterranean coast of Israel.

By B. Galil. 2007

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An overview is presented of the metazoan alien biota recorded from the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Of the 296 alien species, 284 have been introduced from the Red Sea/Indo West-Pacific through the Suez Canal. A brief history of the research on introduced species along the Israeli coast is presented along with the list of species, and their ecological and economic impacts are discussed.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology

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An updated review of alien species on the coasts of Turkey (2011, background): “Their grazing pressure on the intertidal rocky algae have likely resulted in the eradication of some local vegetation and enhanced settlement of the alien mussel, Brachiodontes pharaonis (GALIL, 2007).”
Monitoring marine invasive species in Mediterranean marine protected areas (MPAs) : a strategy and practical guide for managers (2013, background): “…their natural range by human action, either direct or indirect, and can cause harm to biodiversity or ecosystem services by competing with and on some occasions replacing native species, and causing complex changes within the structure and function of the new hosting ecosystem (Galil, 2007, 2009).”
Jellyfish populations in the Mediterranean Sea (2012, background): “…with some of the most spectacular jellyfish blooms, and are a continuous problem in the Mediterranean due to its connections to the Red Sea (GALIL, 2007; EL-SEREhy & AL-RAShEID, 2011) , as well as intense shipping activities, aquaculture operations, and degraded ecosystems (GRAVILI et al.…”
Taking stock: inventory of alien species in the Mediterranean sea (2009, background): “As Erythrean aliens make their way northwards and westwards across the Mediterranean Sea (see supplementary Table 1), the most invasive of the lot attract attention for their realized or potential impacts on the native biota (Galil 2007a), or as health hazards (Galil 2007b).”
The Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: Estimates, Patterns, and Threats (2010, background): “Although some aliens are responsible for reducing the population of some native species [363], others have become locally valuable fishery resources [364].”
Distributions of Indo-Pacific lionfishes Pterois spp. in their native ranges : implications for the Atlantic invasion (2012, background): “Lastly, it should be noted that P. miles has been reported from the Mediterranean Sea as an invading Lessepsian species (Golani & Sonin 1992), yet this species has so far remained at very low densities in its new range (Galil 2007).”
Additions to the annotated list of marine alien biota in the mediterranean with special emphasis on foraminifera and parasites (2008, background): “However, diagnostic characters place them with other species of the same genera known from the Indo-Pacific Ocean and it is thus suggested that they entered the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal (CORBERA & GALIL, 2007; YOKE & GALIL, 2006b).”
First record of Mnemiopsis leidyi A. Agassiz, 1865 (Ctenophora; Lobata; Mnemiidae) off the Mediterranean coast of Israel (2009, background): “Their high density along the coast may have reduced the local zooplankton stock, in which case it may moderate the size of the swarms of the equally voracious invasive scyphozoan jellyfish, Rhopilema nomadica Galil, 1990, that appear in early summer (Galil 2007).”
Blooms of the invasive ctenophore, Mnemiopsis leidyi, span the Mediterranean Sea in 2009 (2010, background): “pulmo that have been documented along the Mediterranean shores since the 1980s (Galil, 2007), there are occasional blooms of novel exotic gelatinous species that had not been previously recorded.”