New published work highlights the importance of Citizen Science in monitoring the spread of invasive species in the Mediterranean Sea.

This study focuses on 5 non-indigenous species (the annelid Branchiomma luctuosum, the shrimp Saron marmoratus and the fish Lutjanus argentimaculatus, Oxyurichthys petersii, and specimens of the group of Abudefduf saxatilis/vaigiensis/troschelii) and one neo-native species (Seriola fasciata) in Greece and Cyprus.

The work comes to revise and update their known distribution in the invaded areas, thus contributing to the study of largescale and well-defined distributional patterns of alien species spreading in the Mediterranean Sea.

Find the paper here.

Photograph by Stefanos Michael.