‘Double trouble’: the expansion of the Suez Canal and marine bioinvasions in the Mediterranean Sea

• DOI: 10.1007/s10530-014-0778-y
• Publication Date: 2014-09-29T15:40:09Z
• Authors: Bella S. Galil; Ferdinando Boero; Marnie L. Campbell; James T. Carlton; Elizabeth Cook; Simonetta Fraschetti; Stephan Gollasch; Chad L. Hewitt; Anders Jelmert; Enrique Macpherson; Agnese Marchini; Cynthia McKenzie; Dan Minchin; Anna Occhipinti-A...; Henn Ojaveer; Sergej Olenin; Stefano Piraino; Gregory M. Ruiz
• Keywords: Suez canal

Egypt to build new Suez canal… 'This giant project will be the creation of a canal parallel current channel' said Mohab Mamish, chairman Canal Authority, in televised speech.''(http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/05/egypt-build-new-suez-canal, viewed August 13, 2014).This is ominous news.Expected double capacity Canal, expansion sure have diverse range effects, at local and regional scales, on both biological diversity ecosystem goods services Mediterranean Sea.Of nearly 700 multicellular non-indigenous species (NIS) currently recognized from Sea, fully half were introduced through since 1869 (Galil et al. one most potent mechanisms corridors for invasions by marine known world.Further, molecular methods demonstrate high levels gene flow between Red Sea populations