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The Global Dispersal of Marine and Estuarine Crustaceans

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In the Wrong Place - Alien Marine Crustaceans: Distribution, Biology and Impacts

Part of the book series: Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology ((INNA,volume 6))

Abstract

The scale of invasions by crustaceans in marine and estuarine waters globally has been vastly underestimated. This underestimation derives from two primary sources: First, most of the species distributed in the first 400–500 years of global shipping have escaped recognition, potentially strongly skewing our perceptions of the evolution and history of many nearshore communities. Second, invasions are rarely reported amongst smaller-bodied and taxonomically more challenging taxa. The combination of the two suggests that many fundamental but overlooked shifts have occurred in marine ecosystems in only the past few centuries. While a still all-too-common statement in the literature is that most invasions are benign and have no impact, no experimental or quantitative data are available that support that conclusion.

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    “Although I found this new species at Marseille, I have reason to think that its provenance is not this country, and that it is from a ship which brought it here from Cayenne, where it must be originally from. It would appear that it was able to live during the crossing, at the bottom of the hold, in the vicinity of some small amount of water which properly maintained the humidity that these crustaceans require.”

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    “are certainly destined to change our notions on the fundamental resistance of certain animal species.”

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    “The present observation, although isolated, shows us how necessary it is in zoological studies, as we understand them today, to take account of similar causes of faunal changes, especially if we think that these causes operate in a manner consistent with when man took possession of the surface of the seas.”

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I am most grateful to Paul Clark and Bella Galil for the opportunity to prepare this overview. I thank two reviewers for helpful comments and for catching those usual errors that creep in.

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Carlton, J.T. (2011). The Global Dispersal of Marine and Estuarine Crustaceans. In: Galil, B., Clark, P., Carlton, J. (eds) In the Wrong Place - Alien Marine Crustaceans: Distribution, Biology and Impacts. Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0591-3_1

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