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Biological invasions and climatic warming: implications for south-eastern Aegean ecosystem functioning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2011

Maria Antonietta Pancucci-Papadopoulou ,
Dionysios E. Raitsos  and
Maria Corsini-Foka
Maria Antonietta Pancucci-Papadopoulou*
Affiliation:
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, 46,7 Km Athens-Sounion Avenue, PO Box 712, 19013 Anavyssos, Greece
Dionysios E. Raitsos
Affiliation:
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, 46,7 Km Athens-Sounion Avenue, PO Box 712, 19013 Anavyssos, Greece
Maria Corsini-Foka
Affiliation:
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, Hydrobiological Station of Rhodes, Cos Street, 85100 Rhodes, Greece
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: M.A. Pancucci-Papadopoulou, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, 46,7 Km Athens-Sounion Avenue, PO Box 712, 19013 Anavyssos, Greece email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The Aegean Sea, due to the complexity and variety of morphological features, bathymetry, hydrological, hydrodynamic features and climatic characteristics, offers a unique opportunity for monitoring the spreading and/or invasion of alien biota. It is known that the establishment of warm/tropical marine alien species is related mainly to the increase in sea temperature. A significant increase in aliens' number along the southern Aegean (Dodecanese) coasts has been documented in the last twenty years, while their arrival has produced evident changes in coastal ecosystem composition and function. Although the study area acts as a crossroad for tropical alien species introduction in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, a direct attempt to link temperature alterations with new alien species arrivals has not been performed. Satellite and in situ derived marine temperature data showed that the study area has gone through a remarkable warming, while the link between global temperatures and regional ones revealed that this warming is not a local phenomenon but part of global climate trends. Examining relationships between new alien species arrivals data since 1929 against global temperatures, it is shown that their introduction rate parallels the significant increase of marine temperatures. The association of alien introductions with marine water warming, as well as potential effects on ecosystem functioning of selected species is discussed.

Keywords

alien speciesclimatic warmingecosystem functioningsouth-eastern Aegean Seaeastern Mediterranean Sea
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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 92 , Issue 4: Coral Reefs, the Aquarium Trade and the Maritime Industry , June 2012 , pp. 777 - 789
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2011

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