Invasion
Invasion Description
1st record: Southern Finland/lower Gulf of Bothnia (Some of these records may refer to M. neglecta (Sikorski and Bick 2004; Bastrop and Blank 2006;
Geographic Extent
Southern Finland/lower Gulf of Bothnia; Aland Islands/Sweden/lower Gulf of Bothnia; Stockholm Archipleago/Sweden/Baltic Sea (Norrko et al. 2011, Marenzellaria spp.; Granberg et al. 2008, M. neglecta); Tvärminne Zoological Station/Finland/Baltic Sea (2014, Kauppi et al. 2018. 59°21?100, 18°15?450);
Vectors
Level | Vector |
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Alternate | Natural Dispersal |
Alternate | Ballast Water |
Regional Impacts
Ecological Impact | Habitat Change | |
Aeration of sediments, mitigating hypoxia (Norrko et al. 2011) | ||