Biodiversity Research

You have free access to this content

Restructuring the Sea: profound shifts in the world's most invaded marine ecosystem

  1. Dor Edelist1,*,
  2. Gil Rilov2,
  3. Daniel Golani3,
  4. James T. Carlton4,
  5. Ehud Spanier1

Article first published online: 24 AUG 2012

DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12002

Issue

Diversity and Distributions

Diversity and Distributions

Volume 19, Issue 1, pages 69–77, January 2013

Additional Information

How to Cite

Edelist, D., Rilov, G., Golani, D., Carlton, J. T. and Spanier, E. (2013), Restructuring the Sea: profound shifts in the world's most invaded marine ecosystem. Diversity and Distributions, 19: 69–77. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12002

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Maritime Civilizations and The Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, The Leon H. Charney School for Marine Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

  2. 2

    National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa, Israel

  3. 3

    Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

  4. 4

    The Maritime Studies Program, Williams College – Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT, USA

* Correspondence: Dor Edelist, Department of Maritime Civilizations and The Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, The Leon H. Charney School for Marine Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel.
E-mail: blackreefs@gmail.com

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 14 DEC 2012
  2. Article first published online: 24 AUG 2012

Funded by

  • Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and the Ministry of Environmental Protection
  • Maritime Studies and the Rieger Foundation Fellowship for Environmental Studies

SEARCH

SEARCH BY CITATION

ARTICLE TOOLS

View Full Article with Supporting Information (HTML) Get PDF (426K)

References

  • Albins, M.A. & Hixon, M.A. (2011) Worst case scenario: potential long-term effects of invasive predatory lionfish (Pterois volitans) on Atlantic and Caribbean coral-reef communities. Environmental Biology of Fishes, doi: 10.1007/s10641-011-9795-1 (in press).
  • Anderson, M.J. (2001) A new method for non-parametric multivariate analysis of variance. Austral Ecology, 26, 32–46.
  • Anderson, M.J., Ellingsen, K.E. & McArdle, B.H. (2006) Multivariate dispersion as a measure of beta diversity. Ecology Letters, 9, 683–693.
    Direct Link:
  • Ben Rais Lasram, F., Tomasini, J.A., Guilhaumon, F., Romdhane, M.S. & Chi, T.D. (2008) Ecological correlates of dispersal success of Lessepsian fishes. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 363, 273–286.
  • Ben Rais Lasram, F., Guilhaumon, F., Albouy, C., Somot, S., Thuiller, W. & Mouillot, D. (2010) The Mediterranean Sea as a ‘cul-de-sac’ for endemic fishes facing climate change. Global Change Biology, 16, 3233–3245.
    Direct Link:
  • Ben Yami, M. & Glaser, T. (1974) The invasion of Saurida undosquamis (Richardson) into the Levant Basin – an example of biological effect of interoceanic canals. Fishery Bulletin, 72, 359–373.
  • Byrnes, J.E., Reynolds, P.L. & Stachowicz, J.J. (2007) Invasions and extinctions reshape coastal marine food webs. PLoS ONE, 2, e295.
  • Carlton, J.T. & Eldredge, L. (2009) Marine bioinvasions of Hawai'i: the introduced and cryptogenic marine and estuarine animals and plants of the Hawaiian archipelago. Bishop Museum Bulletin in Cultural and Environmental Studies, 4, 1–202.
  • Castilla, J.C. & Neill, P.E. (2009) Marine bioinvasions in the southeastern Pacific: status, ecology, economic impacts, conservation and management. Biological invasions in marine ecosystems: ecological, management and geographic perspectives (ed. by G. Rilov and J.A. Crooks), pp. 439–457. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  • Cheung, W.L., Lam, V.W.Y., Sarmiento, J.L., Kearney, K., Watson, R. & Pauly, D. (2009) Projecting global marine biodiversity impacts under climate change scenarios. Fish and Fisheries, 10, 235–251.
    Direct Link:
  • Ciancio, J.E., Pascual, M.A., Lancelotti, J., Riva Rossi, C.M. & Botto, F. (2005) Natural colonization and establishment of a Chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, population in the Santa Cruz River, an Atlantic basin of Patagonia. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 74, 219–227.
  • Clarke, K.R. & Gorley, R.N. (2006) PRIMER v6: user manual/tutorial. PRIMER-E, Plymouth.
  • Cohen, A.N. & Carlton, J.T. (1995) Biological Study. Nonindigenous aquatic species in a United States estuary: a case study of the biological invasions of the San Francisco bay and delta. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Sea Grant College Program (Connecticut Sea Grant), Washington.
  • Cohen, A.N. & Carlton, J.T. (1998) Accelerating invasion rate in a highly invaded estuary. Science, 279, 555–558.
  • Costello, M.J., Coll, M., Danovaro, R., Halpin, P., Ojaveer, H. & Miloslavich, P. (2010) A census of marine biodiversity knowledge, resources, and future challenges. PLoS ONE, 5, e12110. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012110.
  • Edelist, D., Sonin, O., Golani, D., Rilov, G. & Spanier, E. (2011) Spatiotemporal patterns of catch and discards of the Israeli Mediterranean trawl fishery in the early 1990s: ecological and conservation perspectives. Scientia Marina, 75, 641–652.
  • Edelist, D., Golani, D., Rilov, G. & Spanier, E. (2012) The invasive venomous striped eel catfish Plotosus lineatus in the Levant: possible mechanisms facilitating its rapid invasional success. Marine Biology, 159, 283–290.
  • Fofonoff, P.W., Ruiz, G.M., Steves, B., Hines, A.H. & Carlton, J.T. (2003) National Exotic Marine and Estuarine Species Information System (NEMESIS). Available at: http://invasions.si.edu/nemesis/ (accessed August 6, 2011).
  • Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (2011) FishBase [WWW document]. Available at: URL http://fishbase.org (accessed 27 December 2011).
  • García, M.L., Cuello, M., Solari, A., Milessi, A.C., Cortès, F., Bruno, I.M. & Zapata, M.F. (2010) Is Oreochromis niloticus invading the Samborombón Bay, Río de la Plata, Argentina? Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, 12, 117–120.
  • Golani, D. (1994) Niche separation between colonizing and indigenous goatfishes (Mullidae) of the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Journal of Fish Biology, 45, 503–513.
    Direct Link:
  • Golani, D. & Sonin, O. (2006) The Japanese threadfin bream Nemipterus japonicus, a new Indo-Pacific fish in the Mediterranean. Journal of Fish Biology, 68, 940–943.
    Direct Link:
  • Golani, D., Orsi-Relini, L., Massuti, E. & Quiqnard, J.P. (2002) CIESM atlas of exotic fishes in the Mediterranean Sea. [WWW document]. Available at: http://www.ciesm.org/atlas/appendix1.html (accessed 18 January 2012).
  • Golani, D., Orsi-Relini, L., Massutí, E., Quignard, J.P. & Dulčić, J. (2007) Fish invasion of the Mediterranean-retrospective and prospective. Rapport Commission International pour L'exploration Scientifique de la Mer Mediterranèe, 38, 10.
  • Golani, D. (2010) Colonization of the Mediterranean by Red Sea fishes via the Suez Canal – Lessepsian migration. Fish Invasions of the Mediterranean Sea – change and renewal. (ed. by D. Golani and B. Appelbaum-Golani), pp. 145–188. Pensoft, Sofia.
  • Gollasch, S., Haydar, D., Minchin, D., Wolff, W.J. & Reise, K. (2009) Introduced aquatic species of the North Sea coasts and adjacent brackish waters. Biological invasions in marine ecosystems: ecological, management and geographic perspectives (ed. by G. Rilov and J.A. Crooks), pp. 507–528. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  • Goren, M. & Galil, B.S. (2005) A review of changes in the fish assemblages of Levantine inland and marine ecosystem following the introduction of non-native fishes. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 21, 364–370.
    Direct Link:
  • Goren, M., Gvili, R. & Galil, B. (2011) The reef-associating butterfly fish Chaetodon austriacus Rüppell, 1836 in the Mediterranean: the implication of behavioral plasticity for bioinvasion hazard assessment. Aquatic Invasions, 6, 143–145.
  • McKinney, M.L. & Lockwood, J.L. (1999) Biotic homogenization: a few winners replacing many losers in the next mass extinction. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 14, 450–453.
  • Ministry of agriculture and rural development of Israel (1958–2009) The fisheries and aquaculture of Israel, statistical yearbooks. Ministry of agriculture and rural development of Israel, Beit-Dagan, Israel.
  • Mito, T. & Uesugi, T. (2004) Invasive alien species in Japan: the status quo and the new regulation for prevention of their adverse effects. Global Environmental Research, 8, 171–191.
  • Musick, J.A. (1999) Criteria to define extinction risk in marine fishes. Fisheries, 24, 6–14.
  • Olenin, S., Daunys, D., Leppakoski, E. & Zaiko, A. (2007) Baltic Sea alien species database. Available at: http://www.corpi.ku.lt/nemo/ (accessed 24 January 2012).
  • Pauly, D. (1979) Theory and management of tropical multispecies stocks: a review, with emphasis on the Southeast Asian demersal fisheries. International Centre for Living Aquatic Resources Management Studies and Reviews, 1, 35. Manila.
  • Pauly, D., Christensen, V., Guènnette, S., Pitcher, T.J., Sumaila, U.R., Walters, C.J., Watson, R. & Zeller, D. (2002) Towards sustainability in world fisheries. Nature, 418, 689–695.
  • Preisler, R.K., Wasson, K., Wolff, W.J. & Tyrrell, M.C. (2009) Invasions of estuaries vs. the adjacent open coast: a global perspective. Biological invasions in marine ecosystems: ecological, management and geographic perspectives (ed. by G. Rilov and J.A. Crooks), pp. 587–617. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  • Raitsos, D.E., Beaugrand, G., Georgopoulos, D., Zenetos, A., Pancucci-Papadopoulou, A.M., Theocharis, A. & Papathanassiou, E. (2010) Global climate change amplifies the entry of tropical species into the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Limnology and Oceanography, 55, 1478–1484.
  • Reynolds, J.D., Dulvy, N.K., Goodwin, N.B. & Hutchings, J.A. (2005) Biology of extinction risk in marine fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, 272, 2337–2344.
  • Rilov, G. & Crooks, J. (2009) Biological invasions in marine ecosystems: ecological, management and geographic perspectives. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  • Rilov, G. & Galil, B.S. (2009) Marine bioinvasions in the Mediterranean Sea – history, distribution and ecology. Biological invasions in marine ecosystems: ecological, management and geographic perspectives (ed. by G. Rilov and J.A. Crooks), pp. 549–575. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  • Riva Rossi, C.M., Lessa, E. & Pascual, M.A. (2004) The origin of introduced rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in the Santa Cruz River, Patagonia, Argentina, as inferred from mitochondrial DNA. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 61, 1095–1101.
  • Ruiz, G.M., Carlton, J.T., Grosholz, E.D. & Hines, A.H. (1997) Global invasions of marine and estuarine habitats by non-indigenous species: mechanisms, extent, and consequences. American Zoologist, 37, 621–632.
  • Seo, S. & Lee, Y. (2009) A first assessment of invasive marine species on Chinese and Korean coasts. Biological invasions in marine ecosystems: ecological, management and geographic perspectives (ed. by G. Rilov and J.A. Crooks), pp. 577–585. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  • Shiganova, T. (2010) Biotic homogenization of inland seas of the Ponto-Caspian. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 41, 103–125.
  • Silwa, C., Migus, S., McEnnulty, F. & Hayes, K.R. (2009) Marine bioinvasions in Australia. Biological invasions in marine ecosystems: ecological, management and geographic perspectives (ed. by G. Rilov and J.A. Crooks), pp. 409–423. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  • Sorte, C.J.B., Williams, S.L. & Carlton, J.T. (2010) Marine range shifts and species introductions: comparative spread rates and community impacts. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19, 303–316.
    Direct Link:
  • Stachowicz, J.J., Whitlatch, R.B. & Osman, R.W. (1999) Species diversity and invasion resistance in a marine ecosystem. Science, 286, 1577–1579.
  • Stergiou, K.I. & Karpouzi, V.S. (2002) Feeding habits and trophic levels of Mediterranean fish. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 11, 217–254.
  • Wasson, K., Fenn, K. & Pearse, J. (2005) Habitat differences in marine invasions of central California. Biological Invasions, 7, 935–948.
  • Whitfield, P.E., Gardner, T., Vives, S.P., Gilligan, M.R., Courtenay, W.R. Jr, Carleton, R.G. & Hare1, J.A. (2002) Biological invasion of the Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans along the Atlantic coast of north America. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 235, 289–297.
  • Wonham, M.J., Carlton, J.T., Ruiz, G.M. & Smith, L.D. (2000) Fish and ships: relating dispersal frequency to success in biological invasions. Marine Biology, 136, 1111–1121.
View Full Article with Supporting Information (HTML) Get PDF (426K)