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BIOINVASIONS RECORDS
Volume 4, Issue 4, Pages 243-248Publisher
REGIONAL EURO-ASIAN BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS CENTRE-REABIC
DOI: 10.3391/bir.2015.4.4.02
Keywords
introduced species; invasion; distribution; seaweed; Sargassum filicinum; southern California; Baja California
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- California Sea Grant [NA14OAR4170075]
- Directorate For Geosciences [1232779] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Ocean Sciences [1232779] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Sargassum horneri (Turner) C. Agardh, 1820 is a fast growing brown alga native to shallow reefs of eastern Asia. It has spread aggressively throughout southern California, USA, and Baja California, Mexico since it was discovered in the eastern Pacific in 2003 and poses a major threat to the sustainability of native marine ecosystems in this region. Here we present a chronology of the rapid geographic expansion of S. horneri in the eastern Pacific and discuss factors that potentially influence its spread.
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