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The Introduced Green Alga Caulerpa Taxifolia Continues to Spread in the Mediterranean
Authors:Alexandre Meinesz  Thomas Belsher  Thierry Thibaut  Boris Antolic  Karim Ben Mustapha  Charles-Francçois Boudouresque  Danièle Chiaverini  Francesco Cinelli  Jean-Michel Cottalorda  Aslam Djellouli  Amor El Abed  Carla Orestano  Antoni M. Grau  Ljiljana Ivesa  Andrej Jaklin  Habib Langar  Enric Massuti-Pascual  Andrea Peirano  Leonardo Tunesi  Jean de Vaugelas  Nevenka Zavodnik  Ante Zuljevic
Affiliation:(1) Laboratoire Environnement Marin Littoral, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, 06108 Nice Cedex 2, France; Author for correspondence (e-mail;(2) Département d'Ecologie côtière, IFREMER, Centre de Brest, BP 70, 29280 Plouzané Cedex, France;(3) Laboratory of Benthos, Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, I. Mestrovica 63, 21000 Split, P.P. 500, Croatia;(4) Institut National des Sciences et des Technologies de la mer (INSTM), 2025 Salammbô, Tunisia;(5) Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille, UMR CNRS 6540, Campus de Luminy, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France;(6) Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Uomo e dell'Ambiente, Università di Pisa, Via A. Volta, 6, 56121 Pisa, Italy;(7) Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Campus Universitaire, 1060 Tunis, Tunisia;(8) Laboratorio di Ecologia Acquatica, Dipartimento di Scienze Botaniche, Università degli studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi, 38, 90123 Palermo, Italy;(9) Conselleria d'Agricultura i Pesca, C/. dels Foners, 10, 07006 Palma de Mallorca, Spain;(10) Laboratory for Ecology and Systematics, Center for Marine Research, Obala Giordano Paliaga 5, 52210 Rovinj, Croatia;(11) Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Uomo e dell'Ambiente, Università di Pisa, Via A. Volta, 6, 56121 Pisa, Italy;(12) ENEA Ente per le Nuove Technologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente, Centro Ricerche Ambiente Marino, C.P. 224, 19100 La Spezia, Italy;(13) ICRAM Central Institute for Applied Marine Research, via di Casalotti, 300, 00166 Rome, Italy
Abstract:The tropical green alga Caulerpa taxifolia in the Mediterranean has spread steadily since its introduction in 1984. At the end of 2000, approximately 131thinspkm2 of benthos had been colonized in 103 independent areas along 191thinspkm of coastline in six countries (Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Croatia and Tunisia). Large regions neighboring the invaded areas appear favorable to further colonization, and there is thus no reason to believe that spreading will slow down in the years to come.
Keywords:benthic survey  Caulerpa taxifolia  introduced species  invasive species  Mediterranean Sea
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