WGEUROBUS – Working Group “Towards a EURopean OBservatory of the non-indigenous calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinUS”

M. Uttieri (1, 2) , L. Aguzzi (3) , R. Aiese Cigliano (4) , A. Amato (5) , N. Bojanić (6) , M. Brunetta (7) , E. Camatti (8) , Y. Carotenuto (1) , T. Damjanović (6) , F. Delpy (9) , A. de Olazabal (10) , I. Di Capua (1) , J. Falcão (11) , M. Fernandez de Puelles (12) , G. Fóti (3) , O. Garbazey (13) , A. Goruppi (10) , A. Gubanova (13) , E. Hubareva (13) , A. Iriarte (14) , A. Khanaychenko (13) , D. Lučić (15) , S. Marques (11) , M. Mazzocchi (1) , J. Mikuš (16) , R. Minutoli (17) , M. Pagano (9) , M. Pansera (8) , I. Percopo (1) , A. Primo (18) , L. Svetlichny (19) , S. Rožić (6, 20) , V. Tirelli (10) , I. Uriarte (14) , O. Vidjak (6) , F. Villate (14) , M. Wootton (7) , G. Zagami (17) , S. Zervoudaki (21)

1 SZN - Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
2 CONISMA
3 ARPA Lazio, Regional Environmental Protection Agency
4 Sequentia Biotech SL
5 LIPID
6 Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries
7 Marine Biological Association
8 ISMAR - Istituto di Science Marine
9 OSU PYTHEAS - Institut Pythéas
10 OGS - Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale
11 MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre [Portugal]
12 IEO - Instituto Español de Oceanografía - Spanish Institute of Oceanography
13 Institute of Marine Biological Research, Russian Academy of Sciences
14 UPV / EHU - University of the Basque Country = Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
15 Univ Dubrovnik, Inst Marine
16 Univ Dubrovnik, Dept Aquaculture
17 Univ Messina, Dept Chem,Pharmaceutical,Biological, Environm Sciences
18 Univ Coimbra, Dept Life Sci, Ctr Funct Ecol, Coimbra, Portugal
19 I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of NASU
20 Minist Environment, Zagreb
21 HCMR - Hellenic Centre for Marine Research

Since 2007, the non-indigenous calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinus Sato, 1913 has been increasingly recorded in numerous European sites, spreading at an unexpectedly fast pace over a short time-span. This species presents specific biological and behavioural traits which make it of particular interest for ecological and applied research topics. On 29-30 January 2018, 29 scientists from nine European Countries established the EUROBUS (Towards a EURopean OBservatory of the non-indigenous calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinUS) Working Group (WG). This WG aimed at creating a European network of institutions and researchers working on the various aspects of the biology and ecology of P. marinus, with an open forum where sharing experience and know-how among WG participants. This brought to an updated distribution map of P. marinus in European waters, as well as to the identification of priority research lines and potential joint initiatives under the WGEUROBUS umbrella. This contribution, stemming from the experts participating at the WG, represents the manifesto of the current and future initiatives developed within WGEUROBUS.

Mots clés: Pseudodiaptomus marinus; European seas; Distribution; Ecology; Molecular approaches

Domaines: Ecologie, Environnement; Ecosystèmes; Biodiversité et Ecologie

M. Uttieri, L. Aguzzi, R. Aiese Cigliano, A. Amato, N. Bojanić, et al.. WGEUROBUS – Working Group “Towards a EURopean OBservatory of the non-indigenous calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinUS”. Biological Invasions, 2020, 22 (3), pp.885-906. ⟨10.1007/s10530-019-02174-8⟩. ⟨hal-02519115⟩