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

By B. Galil, F. Boero, Marnie L Campbell, James T. Carlton, E. Cook, Simonetta Fraschetti, Stephan Gollasch, C. Hewitt, A. Jelmert, E. Macpherson and 8 more. Biological Invasions, 2015

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‘‘Egypt to build new Suez canal... ‘This giant project will be the creation of a new Suez canal parallel to the current channel’ said Mohab Mamish, the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, in a televised speech.’’ (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/05/ egypt-build-new-suez-canal, viewed August 13, 2014). This is ominous news. Expected to double the capacity of the Suez Canal, the expansion is sure to have a diverse range of effects, at local and regional scales, on both the biological diversity and the ecosystem goods and services of the Mediterranean Sea. Of nearly 700 multicellular non-indigenous species (NIS) currently recognized from the Mediterranean Sea, fully half were introduced through the Suez Canal since 1869 (Galil et al. 2014). This is one of the most potent mechanisms and corridors for invasions by marine species known in the world. Further, molecular methods demonstrate high levels of gene flow between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean populations

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology

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Citations in the corpus

• A lionfish (Pterois miles) invasion has begun in the Mediterranean Sea (2016, background): “Recent enlargement of this canal coupled with sea surface warming is raising concerns that this problem will get worse (Galil et al. 2015).”
• Effects of ocean sprawl on ecological connectivity: impacts and solutions (2017, background): “…opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, N 300 species of macro fl ora and fauna have dispersed from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean generating dramatic modi fi cations in the local communities (Por, 1978; Galil, 2000), and this number is set to increase with the Canal's expansion (Galil et al., 2015).”
• The Tropical Seagrass Halophila stipulacea: Reviewing What We Know From Its Native and Invasive Habitats, Alongside Identifying Knowledge Gaps (2020, background): “, 2014), accompanied by the recent doubling of the Suez Canal (Galil et al., 2015), may cause less favorable conditions for native seagrasses.”