Desalination effluents and the establishment of the non-indigenous skeleton shrimp Paracaprella pusilla Mayer, 1890 in the south -eastern Mediterranean

A decade long monitoring programme has revealed a flourishing population of the non-indigenous skeleton shrimp Paracaprella pusilla in the vicinity of outfalls of desalination plants off the Mediterranean coast of Israel. The first specimens were collected in 2010, thus predating all previously publ...

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Autores: Lo Brutto, Sabrina, Iaciofano, Davide, Guerra García, José Manuel, Lubinevsky, Hadas, Galil, Bella S.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/130505
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/130505
https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2019.8.3.23
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Amphipoda
Caprellidae
brine-effluent plume
chronic disturbance regime
environmental monitoring
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Sumario:A decade long monitoring programme has revealed a flourishing population of the non-indigenous skeleton shrimp Paracaprella pusilla in the vicinity of outfalls of desalination plants off the Mediterranean coast of Israel. The first specimens were collected in 2010, thus predating all previously published records of this species in the Mediterranean Sea. A decade-long disturbance regime related to the construction and operation of the plants may have had a critical role in driving the population growth.