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Bridging divides: Maritime canals as invasion corridors
Gollasch, S.; Galil, B.S.; Cohen, A.N. (Ed.) (2006). Bridging divides: Maritime canals as invasion corridors. Monographiae Biologicae, 83. Springer: Dordrecht. ISBN 978-1-4020-5046-6. xiii, 315 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5047-3
Part of: Monographiae Biologicae. Springer: Den Haag. ISSN 0077-0639; e-ISSN 2215-1729, more
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    VLIZ: Ecology ECO.214 [102196]
Keywords
    Alien species
    Aquatic organisms > Marine organisms
    Dispersal phenomena
    Globalization
    Impacts
    Shipping
    Water bodies > Inland waters > Canals
    Marine/Coastal
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  • Gollasch, S., editor, more
  • Galil, B.S., editor, more
  • Cohen, A.N., editor
Abstract
    Maritime canals dissolve natural barriers to the dispersal of marine organisms, thus providing novel opportunities for natural dispersal, as well as for shipping-mediated transport. The introduction of alien species has proved to be one of the most profound and damaging of anthropogenic deeds - with both ecological and economic costs. This book is the first to assess the impacts of the world's three principal maritime canals - the Kiel, the Panama, the Suez - as invasion corridors for alien biota. These three canals differ in their hydrological regimes, the types of biotas they connect, and in their permeability to invasions.
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