Sea slugs may be enlisted to halt the devastating spread of unusual algae in the Mediterranean Sea.

References: 

Meinesz, A. 1998. Controlling Established Populations of Alien Marine Species Meeting. May. Leavenworth, Wash.

1998. Report of the Workshop on Invasive Caulerpa Species in the Mediterranean. United Nations Program's Workshop on Invasive Caulerpa Species in the Mediterranean, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (UNEP[OCA]/MED WG. 139/4). April.

Further Readings: 

1993. Exotic species prove costly immigrants. Science News 144(Oct. 16):252.

Howarth, F.G. 1991. Environmental impacts of classical biological control. Annual Review of Entomology 36:485.

Lafferty, K.D., and A.M. Kuris. 1996. Biological control of marine pests. Ecology 77:1989.

Mlot, C. 1997. Invasive Argentine ant is no picnic. Science News 152(August 23):116.

______. 1997. Biological pest control harms natives. Science News 152(August 16):100.

Purcell, J.E., and J.H. Cowan Jr. 1995. Predation by the scyphomedusan Chrysaora quinquecirrha on Mnemiopsis leidyi ctenophores. Marine Ecology Progress Series 129(Dec. 14):63.

Purcell, J.E., et al. 1994. Predation mortality of bay anchovy Anchoa mitchilli eggs and larvae due to scyphomedusae and ctenophores in Chesapeake Bay. Marine Ecology Progress Series 114(Nov. 3):47.

Purcell, J.E., et al. 1994. Predation by gelatinous zooplankton and resource limitation as potential controls of Acartia tonsa copepod populations in Chesapeake Bay. Limnology and Oceanography 39:263.

Raloff, J. 1992. From tough ruffle to quagga. Science News 142(July 25):56.

Walker, T. 1991. Dreissena disaster. Science News 139(May 4):282.

 

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Andrew Cohen
San Francisco Estuary Institute
180 Richmond Field Station
1325 South 46th Street
Richmond, CA 94804

Richard Harbison
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Biology Department
Water Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Kathe R. Jensen
Zoological Museum
Universitetsparken 15
DK-2100 Copenhagen
Denmark

Armand M. Kuris
University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Biological Sciences
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Alexandre Meinesz
Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
Laboratoire Environment Marin Littoral
Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice
Cedex 2
France

James N. Norris
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20560

Jennifer E. Purcell
University of Maryland
Horn Point Laboratory
2020 Horn Point Road
P.O. Box 775
Cambridge, MD 21613

Tamara Shiganova
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
Russian Academy of Sciences
117851 Nakhimovskiy Prosp
36 Moscow
Russia

Daniel Simberloff
University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Knoxville, TN 37996

Edwin A. Theriot
U.S. Army Corp of Engineers
Aquatic Ecology Branch
Environmental Laboratory
3903 Halls Ferry Road
Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199