In the Wrong Place - Alien Marine Crustaceans: Distribution, Biology and Impacts
In The Wrong Place: Alien Marine Crustaceans - Distribution, Biology And Impacts provides a unique view into the remarkable story of how shrimps, crabs, and lobsters – and their many relatives – have been distributed around the world by human activity, an
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Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology
Volume 6
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Bella S. Galil • Paul F. Clark • James T. Carlton Editors
In the Wrong Place - Alien Marine Crustaceans: Distribution, Biology and Impacts
Editors Bella S. Galil National Institute of Oceanography Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research 31080 Haifa Israel [email protected]
Paul F. Clark Department of Zoology The Natural History Museum Cromwell Road SW7 5BD London United Kingdom [email protected]
James T. Carlton Maritime Studies Program Williams College 75 Greenmanville Avenue P.O. Box 6000 Mystic, Connecticut 06355, USA James.T. [email protected]
ISBN 978-94-007-0590-6 e-ISBN 978-94-007-0591-3 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0591-3 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011923971 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
While humans have facilitated the movement of marine and estuarine (brackish water) crustaceans for millennia to regions where ocean currents would never have taken them, it is perhaps only in the past 200 years, with the creation of interoceanic canals and the advent of global shipping that a “sea change” has truly taken place in the distribution of hundreds, some might argue thousands, of species of crustaceans. We present here, in 25 chapters by contributors from around the world, the first global, comprehensive review of alien marine crustaceans. Our concept of “alien”, as used in this volume, includes species that are commonly also referred to as exotic, introduced, invasive, non-indigenous, and non-native. Much remains to be learned about the breadth and depth of how human activity has altered the biogeography of crustaceans in the world’s oceans. The best-known marine crustacea are the decapods; crabs, shrimps, crayfish (crawfish), lobsters, and their relatives. The present work reflects that knowledge: 12 of the 25 chapters here focus entirely or largely on decapods. Similarly, the historical biogeography of crustaceans in European, North American, Atlantic South American, and Australasian waters are far better known than many other regions of the world, and the contributions geographically reflect that knowledge base. In turn, the lacunae of the present work reflect the well-known gaps in our knowledge of alien marine crustacea: the history, diversity, distribution, and impacts of, for example, alien marine species of amphipods, isopods, tanaids, cumaceans, ostracodes, mysids, an
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