DTU AQUA National Institute of Aquatic Resources
Centre for Ocean Life
Henrik Dams Allé
Building 201, room 262
2800 Kgs. Lyngby
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The brackish-water loving jellyfish Blackfordia virginica has been a new player in the Kiel Canal since summer 2016, shows an evaluation of regular biological monitoring cruises over the past ten years.
Based on the first comprehensive data collection on the occurrence of the invasive jellyfish, Mnemiopsis leidyi, in Europe, scientists now show that ocean currents play the major role for the successful invasion and spread of species in the marine realm.
The number of non-native species which are recorded in new habitats outside their natural range is steadily increasing. Though thousands of species are daily transported around the global, only a minute fraction manages to establish. A new study now answers why this can be the case.