Further expansion of the alien seaweed Caulerpa taxifolia var. distichophylla (Sonder) Verlaque, Huisman & Procacini (Ulvophyceae, Bryopsidales) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea


Autoria(s): Aplikioti, Marilena; Louizidou, Paraskevi; Mystikou, Alexandra; Marcou, Melina; Stavrou, Petros; Kalogirou, Stefanos; Tsiamis, Konstantinos; Panayotidis, Panayotis; Kuepper, Frithjof C.
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04/05/2016

04/05/2016

01/03/2016

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Date of Acceptance: 27/04/2015 We are grateful to Andreas Antoniou (Dep. of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development & Environment, Cyprus) for his assistance in the preparation of the illustrations. We would also like to thank Dr. Sotiris Orfanidis (NAGREF – Fisheries Research Institute, Kavala, Greece) for his valuable advice and both the DFMR and HSR / HCMR Rhodes crew and George Hatiris for their help in samplings. Special thanks are due to Dinos Leonidou (SeaQuest Divers Cyprus) for accompanying the deep dive for sampling Caulerpa at Cavo Greco. We are grateful to the Total Foundation (Paris) for its funding support to this study within the framework of the project “Brown algal ecology and biodiversity in the eastern Mediterranean Sea” and to the MASTS pooling initiative (Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland, funded by the Scottish Funding Council and contributing institutions; grant reference HR09011).

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Aplikioti , M , Louizidou , P , Mystikou , A , Marcou , M , Stavrou , P , Kalogirou , S , Tsiamis , K , Panayotidis , P & Kuepper , F C 2016 , ' Further expansion of the alien seaweed Caulerpa taxifolia var. distichophylla (Sonder) Verlaque, Huisman & Procacini (Ulvophyceae, Bryopsidales) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea ' Aquatic Invasions , vol 11 , no. 1 , pp. 11-20 . , 10.3391/ai.2016.11.1.02

1798-6540

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PURE UUID: 28b93201-a43e-4fa9-aec7-e54872ceffc8

http://hdl.handle.net/2164/5958

http://dx.doi.org/10.3391/ai.2016.11.1.02

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Palavras-Chave #alien #Caulerpa taxifolia var. distichophylla #green algae #Eastern Mediterranean #Cyprus #Rhodes #QH301 Biology #QH301
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University of Aberdeen, School of Biological Sciences

University of Aberdeen, Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition, Medical Sciences

University of Aberdeen, MASTS (Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland)

University of Aberdeen, School of Biological Sciences, Biological Sciences