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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/59367| Title: | A 70-year long lessepsian colonization: the conquest of Malta by Amphistegina lobifera |
| Authors: | Guastella, Roberta Caruso, Antonio Evans, Julian Langone, Leonardo Mancin, Nicoletta |
| Keywords: | Introduced organisms -- Mediterranean Sea Foraminifera -- Mediterranean Sea Amphistegina |
| Issue Date: | 2019 |
| Publisher: | Commission Internationale pour l'Exploitation Scientifique de la Mer Mediterranee |
| Citation: | Guastella, R., Caruso, A., Evans, J., Langone, L., & Mancin, N. (2019). A 70-year long lessepsian colonization: the conquest of Malta by Amphistegina lobifera. Rapport du Congrès de la Commission Internationale pour l'Exploration Scientifique de la Mer Méditerranée, 42, 180. |
| Abstract: | The highly invasive Amphistegina lobifera (Larsen, 1976), a non-indigenous benthic foraminifera coming from the Red Sea through the Suez Canal, has colonized the Eastern Mediterranean during the last decades and in 2006 it was recorded for the first time from the Maltese Islands (Central Mediterranean). Here, we report new data from a sediment core collected in May 2018 near the northern coast of Malta. Results show that A. lobifera reached Malta between 1950 and 1955; then it progressively increased in abundance with time, probably favoured by the rising of Mediterranean SST during the last 40 years. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/59367 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacSciBio |
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