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The two sides of man-induced changes in littoral marine communities: Eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea as an example.
The Science of the total environment - 16 Sept 2002
Fishelson L, Bresler V, Abelson A, Stone L, Gefen E, Rosenfeld M, Mokady O
Abstract excerpt
Over the last two centuries, the marine life of the Eastern Mediterranean has been influenced by two major factors: one is beneficial, and concerns species migration, such as the opening of the Suez Canal, which enriched the impoverished eastern Mediterranean Sea with over 300 species of fish and invertebrates of Red Sea origin; while the other, a negative and possibly wider-reaching factor, is that of man-made...
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