By Henri J. Dumont, Tamara A. Shiganova, Ulrich Niermann
The Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas, the rivers and canals that attach them, and the large quantity of transport within the quarter, characterize a conduit for aquatic invasion, whose results are just now starting to be understood. This booklet offers an up to date evaluation of jelly invasions within the Ponto-Caspian that have affected neighborhood ecosystems because the early Eighties, contrasting that with different organic invasions, looking for underlying principles.
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