Bridging Divides Maritime Canals as Invasion Corridors /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gollasch, Stephan (Editor), Galil, Bella S. (Editor), Cohen, Andrew N. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Ecology.; Aquatic ecology.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Nature conservation.; Life Sciences.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Nature Conservation.

Maritime canals dissolve natural barriers to the dispersal of marine organisms, thus providing novel opportunities for natural dispersal, as well as for shipping-mediated transport. The introduction of alien species has proved to be one of the most profound and damaging of anthropogenic deeds - with...

Table of Contents:

• Overall Introduction
• Overall Introduction
• The Kiel Canal
• The World's Busiest Man-made Waterway and Biological Invasions
• The Panama Canal
• Chapter I Cutting a Canal Through Central America
• Chapter II Shipping Patterns Associated with the Panama Canal: Effects on Biotic Exchange?
• Chapter III Species Introductions and the Panama Canal
• The Suez Canal
• The Marine Caravan – The Suez Canal and the Erythrean Invasion
• Epilogue
• Canals, Invasion Corridors and Introductions.