The introduction of alien species (AS) in marine environments is a factor of disturbance that
can be viewed as a pollution agent. Using basic information on abundance and distribution …

Among ca. 750 species of Crustacea recorded from Poland, 18 representatives of 5 orders
of macro-crustaceans have been identified as alien species that have invaded or have been …

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 …

Biological invasions coupled with climate change drive changes in marine biodiversity.
Warming climate and changes in hydrology may either enable or hinder the spread of non …

This paper presents an overall bioinvasion impact assessment on the scale of a large
marine region—the Baltic Sea, as defined by the Helsinki Commission. The methodology is …

The European water framework directive (WFD) aims at achieving good ecological status of
water bodies, which implies assessment of their current ecological quality status in respect …

Biological invasions are of increasing global concern. They impact on biodiversity and may
result in high economic loss. This demands improvement in knowledge of the dynamics of …

The paper provides a new record of the North-American invasive amphipod Gammarus
tigrinus from the Bornholm island (Denmark), accompanied by DNA barcodes. We found this …

Open-ocean ballast-water exchange (BWE) is currently the most common treatment used to
reduce the ballast transfer of organisms and the subsequent risk of invasions among coastal …

Ponto‐Caspian peracaridans, and mysids and amphipods in particular, are among the most
successful aquatic invaders. However, species differ in the trophic‐status range of …