Invasion
Invasion Description
1st Record: Fiskebäckskil/Sweden/Skaggerak (1895, Gislen 1950)
Geographic Extent
"Swedish border to southern part of Nordland"/Norway/Skagerrak; Fiskebäckskil/Sweden/Skaggerak (1895, Gislen 1950); Norway/Oslofjord (Brock 1924, cited by Furman and Yule 1989, annual disappearance, colonization cycle); Galto/Sweden/Skaggerak (Furman 1989; Furman 1990)
Vectors
| Level | Vector |
|---|---|
| Alternate | Hull Fouling |
| Alternate | Natural Dispersal |
| Alternate | Ballast Water |
Regional Impacts
| Economic Impact | Shipping/Boating | |
| In the Skagerrak, Sweden, A. improvisus was the dominant organism fouling the hulls of recreational boats, probably because it was more tolerant of hydrodynamic stress than the Blue Mussel, Mytilus edulis, which dominated static fouling plates (Berntsson and Jonsson 2003). | ||
References
Berntsson, Kent; Jonsson, Per R. (2003) Temporal and spatial patterns in recruitment and succession of a temperate marine fouling assemblage: a comparison of static panels and boat hulls during the boating season, Biofouling 19(3): 187-195Furman, E. R.; Yule, A. B. (1991) Estuaries and coasts: Spatial and temporal intercomparisons., Olsen and Olsen, Fredensborg, Denmark. Pp. Pp. 273-276.
Furman, Eeva (1989) Enzyme genetic variation in Balanus improvisus Darwin (Crustacea, Cirripedia) in the Baltic Sea., Ophelia 30(1): 35-45
Furman, Eeva (1990) Geographical variation of Balanus improvisus in biochemical and morphometric characters., Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 70: 721-740
Gislen, Torsten (1950) {On the invasion and distribution of Balanus improvisus along the coast of Sweden.], Fauna och Flora 45: 32-37