In the Wrong Place

by Galil, Bella S.; Clark, Paul F.; Carlton, James T.

• ISBN13: 9789400705906
• ISBN10: 9400705905
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-06
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

In The Wrong Place: Alien Marine Crustaceans - Distribution, Biology And Impacts provides a unique view into the remarkable story of how shrimps, crabs, and lobsters ' and their many relatives ' have been distributed around the world by human activity, and the profound implications of this global reorganization of biodiversity for marine conservation biology.  Many crustaceans form the base of marine food chains, and are often prominent predators and competitors acting as ecological engineers in marine ecosystems.  Commencing in the 1800s global commerce began to move hundreds ' perhaps thousands ' of species of marine crustaceans across oceans and between continents, both intentionally and unintentionally.  This book tells the story of these invasions from Arctic waters to tropical shores, highlighting not only the importance and impact of all prominent crustacean invasions in the world's oceans, but also the commercial exploitation of invasive crabs and shrimps. Topics explored for the first time in one volume include the historical roots of man's impact on crustacean biogeography, the global dispersal of crabs, barnacle invasions, insights into the potential scale of tropical invasions, the history of the world's most widely cultured shrimp, the invasive history and management of red king crabs in Norway, Chinese mitten crabs in England, and American blue crabs in Europe, the evolutionary ecology of green crabs, and many other subjects as well, touching upon all ocean shores.

Table of Contents

In the Beginning
The Global Dispersal of Marine and Estuarine Crustaceans	p. 3
Global Dispersal
Human-Mediated Spread of Alien Crabs	p. 27
The Global Spread of the Chinese Mitten Crab Eriocheir sinensis	p. 107
The Japanese Skeleton Shrimp Caprella mutica (Crustacea, Amphipoda): A Global Invader of Coastal Waters	p. 129
Alien Faunas by Region
Barnacle Invasions: Introduced, Cryptogenic, and Range Expanding Cirripedia of North and South America	p. 159
Marine Crustacean Invasions in North America: A Synthesis of Historical Records and Documented Impacts	p. 215
Alien Decapod Crustaceans in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean	p. 251
The Alien and Cryptogenic Marine Crustaceans of South Africa	p. 269
The Snow Crab, Chionoecetes opilio (Decapoda, Majoidea, Oregoniidae) in the Barents Sea	p. 283
Alien Malacostracan Crustaceans in the Eastern Baltic Sea: Pathways and Consequences	p. 301
Alien Crustaceans Along the Southern and Western Baltic Sea	p. 323
Checklist of Cryptogenic and Alien Crustacea of the European Atlantic Coast	p. 345
The Alien Crustaceans in the Mediterranean Sea: An Historical Review	p. 377
An Incoming Flood on a Cryptic Stage: Understanding Alien Crustacean Invasions in Southeast Asia	p. 403
Alien Marine Crustaceans of Japan: A Preliminary Assessment	p. 419
Aliens in the Antipodes: Non-indigenous Marine Crustaceans of New Zealand and Australia	p. 451
Commercial Exploitation of Invasive Decapods
The Pacific White Shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei, in Asia: The World's Most Widely Cultured Alien Crustacean	p. 489
The Invasive History, Impact and Management of the Red King Crab Paralithodes camtschaticus off the Coast of Norway	p. 521
The Commercial Exploitation of the Chinese Mitten Crab Eriocheir sinensis in the River Thames, London: Damned if We Don't and Damned if We Do	p. 537
Case Studies
Live and Let Live: Invasive Host, Charybdis longicollis (Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae), and Invasive Parasite, Heterosaccus dollfusi (Cirripedia: Rhizocephala: Sacculinidae)	p. 583
Invasion History and Success of the American Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus in European and Adjacent Waters	p. 607
The Introduced American Lobster, Homarus americanus in Scandinavian Waters	p. 625
Carcinus in the Wrong Place
The Evolutionary Ecology of European Green Crab, Carcinus maenas, in North America	p. 641
More than One Way to Invade: Lessons from Genetic Studies of Carcinus Shore Crabs	p. 661
Ecological Impacts of Replacing One Invasive Species with Another in Rocky Intertidal Areas	p. 687
Index	p. 703
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