Turkey's globally important biodiversity in crisis

ÇH Şekercioğlu, S Anderson, E Akçay, R Bilgin… - Biological …, 2011 - Elsevier
Turkey (Türkiye) lies at the nexus of Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa.
Turkey's location, mountains, and its encirclement by three seas have resulted in high …

Alien polychaete species worldwide: current status and their impacts

ME Çinar - Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the …, 2013 - cambridge.org
This paper reviews the alien polychaete species in the world's oceans and their impacts on
the marine ecosystems and humans. A total of 292 polychaete species belonging to 164 …

Alien marine species in the Mediterranean-the 100 'Worst Invasives' and their impact

N Streftaris, A Zenetos - Mediterranean Marine Science, 2006 - ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr
A number of marine alien species have been described as invasive or locally invasive in the
Mediterranean because of their proliferation, and/or their geographical spread and/or impact …

[HTML][HTML] Current status (as of end of 2020) of marine alien species in Turkey

ME Çinar, M Bilecenoğlu, MB Yokeş, B Öztürk… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The 2020's update of marine alien species list from Turkey yielded a total of 539 species
belonging to 18 taxonomic groups, 404 of which have become established in the region and …

A massive update of non-indigenous species records in Mediterranean marinas

A Ulman, J Ferrario, A Occhpinti-Ambrogi, C Arvanitidis… - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
The Mediterranean Sea is home to over 2/3 of the world's charter boat traffic and hosts an
estimated 1.5 million recreational boats. Studies elsewhere have demonstrated marinas as …

The vessel as a vector–biofouling, ballast water and sediments

CL Hewitt, S Gollasch, D Minchin - Biological invasions in marine …, 2009 - Springer
Human-mediated marine bioinvasions have altered the way we view the marine
environment—virtually all regions of the global oceans have experienced the introduction of …

Checklist of Annelida from the coasts of Turkey

ME Cinar, E DAĞLI, GK Şahin - Turkish Journal of Zoology, 2014 - journals.tubitak.gov.tr
The compilation of papers on marine annelids along the coasts of Turkey together with new
records of species (24 species) presented in this study yielded a total of 721 species …

An updated review of alien species on the coasts of Turkey

M Cinar, M Bilecenoglu, B ÖZTÜRK… - Mediterranean …, 2011 - avesis.deu.edu.tr
This 2010 review of alien species along the coasts of Turkey represents a total of 400 alien
species belonging to 14 systematic groups. The present paper also reports the first findings …

Non-indigenous polychaetes along the coasts of Italy: a critical review

J Langeneck, M Lezzi, M Del Pasqua, L Musco… - Mediterranean Marine …, 2020 - arpi.unipi.it
Non-indigenous species (NIS) represent one of the most relevant threats to biodiversity,
ecosystem functioning and human activities, and their occurrence and spread have been the …

Mangrove-associated bivalves in Southeast Asia: A review

N Yahya, I Idris, NS Rosli, Z Bachok - Regional Studies in Marine Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Mangroves are plants with high tolerance to salinity, tidal variation, temperature and
moisture which grow in the intertidal zone. The high productivity of mangroves creates a …