Overall introduction / Dan Minchin [and others] -- The Kiel Canal : the world's busiest man-made waterway and biological invasions / Stephan Gollasch & Harald Rosenthal -- The Panama Canal. Cutting a canal through Central America / Andrew N. Cohen. Shipping patterns associated with the Panama Canal : effects on biotic exchange? / Gregory M. Ruiz [and others]. Species introductions and the Panama Canal / Andrew N. Cohen -- The Suez Canal : the marine caravan -- the Suez Canal and the Erythrean invasion / Bella S. Galil -- Epilogue : canals, invasion corridors and introductions / Chad Hewitt [and others]
Summary
Maritime canals dissolve natural barriers to the dispersal of marine organisms, thus providing novel opportunities for natural dispersal, as well as for shipping-mediated transport. This book assesses the impacts of the world's three principal maritime canals - the Kiel, the Panama, the Suez - as invasion corridors for alien biota