The Green Wave: reviewing the environmental impacts of the invasive European green crab (Carcinus maenas) and potential management approaches

NJ Ens, B Harvey, MM Davies… - Environmental …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
The European green crab (Carcinus maenas), native to northwestern Europe and Africa, is
among the top 100 most damaging invasive species globally. In some regions, including the …

Burrowing invertebrates induce fragmentation of mariculture Styrofoam floats and formation of microplastics

Y Zheng, J Zhu, J Li, G Li, H Shi - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Secondary microplastics originate from the fragmentation of large plastics, and weathering is
supposed to be the main cause of fragmentation. In this study, we investigated burrows and …

A global synthesis of predation on bivalves

A Meira, JE Byers, R Sousa - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Predation is a dominant structuring force in ecological communities. In aquatic
environments, predation on bivalves has long been an important focal interaction for …

Geographically variable biotic interactions and implications for species ranges

R Early, SA Keith - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The challenge Understanding how biotic interactions affect species' geographical ranges,
biodiversity patterns and ecological responses to environmental change is one of the most …

Species interactions and climate change: How the disruption of species co‐occurrence will impact on an avian forest guild

M Brambilla, D Scridel, G Bazzi, L Ilahiane… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Interspecific interactions are crucial in determining species occurrence and community
assembly. Understanding these interactions is thus essential for correctly predicting species' …

The Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 expands its non-native distribution into the Ria Formosa lagoon and the Guadiana estuary (SW-Iberian …

P Morais, M Gaspar, E Garel, V Baptista… - BioInvasions …, 2019 - sapientia.ualg.pt
The Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 is native in the western Atlantic,
however it is a non-indigenous species across Europe since 1900, among other world …

Effects of warming on intraguild predator communities with ontogenetic diet shifts

V Thunell, M Lindmark, M Huss… - The American …, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Species interactions mediate how warming affects community composition via individual
growth and population size structure. While predictions on how warming affects composition …

Temperature‐dependent competition between juvenile salmonids in small streams

J Watz, Y Otsuki, K Nagatsuka, K Hasegawa… - Freshwater …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Biotic interactions affect species distributions, and environmental factors that influence these
interactions can play a key role when range shifts in response to environmental change are …

Coastal countercurrents increase propagule pressure of an aquatic invasive species to an area where previous introductions failed

J Encarnação, LA Krug, MA Teodósio, P Morais - Estuaries and Coasts, 2022 - Springer
The establishment of many non-indigenous species is primarily controlled by propagule
pressure, local environmental conditions, and biological interactions. An introduction is …

Innate feeding plasticity and animal prey support invasiveness of aquatic species in a southwestern European estuary

J Encarnação, E Dias, A Engelen, EA Serrão… - Biological …, 2025 - Springer
Non-indigenous species often rely on trophic plasticity to adjust to available food sources
and even to avoid interspecific competition while overcoming environmental constraints …