Biological Invasions in Coastal Habitats: Historical Ecology, Early Detection Plans and Global Warming

ALEJANDRO BORTOLUS

World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation.

Academic Press

Año: 2019; p. 787 - 789

The rise of exploration, colonization and expansion of human beings across continents and oceans triggered one of the most significantprocesses in the Earth´s ecological history: the massive movement and exchange of species from one region to another. Injust a few hundred years, accidentally and deliberately, people have transported an increasing number of species across naturalbiogeographic barriers (such as oceans and mountains) surpassing by far their natural capability for long-range dispersion. Eversince, the introduction of species by humans is a process that has increased with no evidence that the number of introduced specieswill diminish in the near future.