- Title
- Semi-submersible rigs: a vector transporting entire marine communities around the world
- Creator
- Wanless, Ross M, Scott, Sue, Sauer, Warwick H H, Andrew, Timothy G, Glass, James P, Godfrey, Brian, Griffiths, Charles, Yeld, Eleanor
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/126920
- Identifier
- vital:35935
- Identifier
- https://doi.10.1007/s10530-009-9666-2
- Description
- A virtually intact subtropical reef community (14 phyla, 40 families and 62 non-native taxa) was associated with a rig under tow from Brazil that became stranded on the remote island of Tristan da Cunha. This exposes rigs as a significant vector spreading alien marine organisms, and includes the first records of free-swimming marine finfish populations becoming established after unintentional movement. With relatively trivial effort, a pre-tow clean would have obviated the need to salvage and dispose of the rig (undertaken largely to address concerns about invasive species), at a cost of *US$20 million. Our findings show that towing biofouled structures across biogeographic boundaries present unexcelled opportunities for invasion to a wide diversity of marine species. Better control and management of this vector is required urgently. Simultaneous, unintentional introductions of viable populations of multiple marine organisms are rare events, and we develop a basic framework for rapid assessment of invasion risks.
- Format
- 11 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Biological Invasions, Wanless, R.M., Scott, S., Sauer, W.H., Andrew, T.G., Glass, J.P., Godfrey, B., Griffiths, C. and Yeld, E., 2010. Semi-submersible rigs: a vector transporting entire marine communities around the world. Biological Invasions, 12(8), pp.2573-2583, Biological Invasions volume 12 number 8 2573 2583 2010 1387-3547
- Rights
- Biological Invasions
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