Over the past century, the potential for aquatic species to expand their ranges in Europe has
been enhanced both as a result of the construction of new canals and because of increased …

The first record of the American blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 from Europe
was collected in 1900 on the Atlantic coast of France. Subsequently specimens were …

From the depths of the oceans to the shallow estuaries and wetlands of our coasts,
organisms of the marine environment are teeming with unique adaptations to cope with a …

Continuous and comprehensive monitoring is one of the most important practices to trace
changes in the state of the environment and target management efforts. Yet, governmental …

M ore than 140 aquatic alien species (AAS) have been reported from coastlines of the N orth
Sea and the Baltic Sea and from inland w aters w ithin the national borders of Germ any. The …

The introduction and spread of alien species is now recognized as one of the most
significant modifiers of biodiversity. In the absence of their normal predators and parasites …

A phylogeographic analysis is carried out for the widely distributed European littoral prawn
Palaemon elegans in order to test for potential genetic differentiation and geographic …

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 …

Freshwaters are subject to particularly high rates of species introductions; hence, invaders
increasingly co‐occur and may interact to enhance impacts on ecosystem structure and …

Aquatic macrophytes can have a significant impact on their associated community of
epiphytic algae and bacteria through the provisioning of structural habitat complexity …