TY - JOUR
T1 - Tracking the invasion of the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) (Decapoda Cambaridae) in Sicily: a “citizen science” approach
AU - Zizzo, Maria Grazia
AU - Melfi, Raffaella
AU - Marrone, Federico
AU - Zizzo, Maria Grazia
AU - Faraone, Francesco Paolo
AU - Giacalone, Gabriele
AU - Torre, Giancarlo
AU - Urso, Giuseppe
AU - D’Angelo, Stefania
AU - Morello, Bruno
AU - Giancontieri, Giacoma Lidia
AU - Vinci, Pierluigi
AU - Tinnirello, Viviana
AU - Favaccio, Giorgio
AU - Isgrò, Carmelo
AU - Torre, Daniele
AU - Torre, Giancarlo
AU - Torre, Antonio
AU - Navarria, Federica
AU - Urso, Giuseppe
AU - Garozzo, Vincenzo
AU - Canale, Domenica Emanuela
AU - Russo, Giorgio
AU - Torre, Giancarlo
AU - Russo, Giorgio
AU - Melfi, Raffaella
AU - Marrone, Federico
AU - Torre, Antonio
AU - Faraone, Francesco Paolo
AU - Giacalone, Gabriele
AU - Torre, Giancarlo
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The first record of the red swamp crayfish in Sicily dates back to 2003 and, since then, the speciesseemed to be confined to a few localities in western Sicily. A small “citizen science” project carried outfrom November 2016 onwards led to the creation of the “Sicilian Procambarus working group”(SPwg), which aims at monitoring the distribution and impact of the species in Sicily. To date, theSPwg found the red swamp crayfish in five new sites on the island, thus doubling the number of localsites of occurrence. The new Procambarus clarkii sites lie in different river basins, some of themlocated several hundred kilometres from the invaded areas known to date, suggesting the existence ofmultiple independent releases of the species in the wild. The need of better informing the localpopulation on the risks exerted by invasive species on biological diversity, and of carefully monitoringthe impact of P. clarkii on the Sicilian inland water biota is briefly stressed
AB - The first record of the red swamp crayfish in Sicily dates back to 2003 and, since then, the speciesseemed to be confined to a few localities in western Sicily. A small “citizen science” project carried outfrom November 2016 onwards led to the creation of the “Sicilian Procambarus working group”(SPwg), which aims at monitoring the distribution and impact of the species in Sicily. To date, theSPwg found the red swamp crayfish in five new sites on the island, thus doubling the number of localsites of occurrence. The new Procambarus clarkii sites lie in different river basins, some of themlocated several hundred kilometres from the invaded areas known to date, suggesting the existence ofmultiple independent releases of the species in the wild. The need of better informing the localpopulation on the risks exerted by invasive species on biological diversity, and of carefully monitoringthe impact of P. clarkii on the Sicilian inland water biota is briefly stressed
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10447/246782
M3 - Article
VL - 32
SP - 25
EP - 29
JO - Biogeographia
JF - Biogeographia
SN - 2475-5257
ER -