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Chapter 9 - The Restructuring of Levant Reefs by Aliens, Ocean Warming and Overfishing

Implications for Species Interactions and Ecosystem Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2019

By
Gil Rilov ,
Ohad Peleg  and
Tamar Guy-Haim
Edited by
Stephen J. Hawkins ,
Katrin Bohn ,
Louise B. Firth  and
Gray A. Williams
Stephen J. Hawkins
Affiliation:
Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth
Katrin Bohn
Affiliation:
Natural England
Louise B. Firth
Affiliation:
University of Plymouth
Gray A. Williams
Affiliation:
The University of Hong Kong
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Summary

The Levantine Basin at the south-eastern corner of the Mediterranean represents the trailing edge of the distribution of native Atlanto-Mediterranean species, where they are exposed to the most extreme temperature and salinity conditions. The region is also fast warming and exposed to a flood of alien species, mostly thermophilic ones from the Indo-Pacific. The Levant coast also hosts a unique, fragile and understudied rocky intertidal ecosystem – vermetid reefs. Anecdotal historical data and observations, and recent extensive intertidal and shallow subtidal community surveys on the Israeli coast (including a marine reserve) indicate that Levant reefs are (1) overfished; (2) highly invaded by thermophilic alien species, some (rabbitfish) highly destructive; (3) dominated by turf barrens (canopy-forming brown algae are rare, probably overgrazed by rabbitfish) and increasing patches of alien algae and (4) suffering the loss of many native species (e.g., urchins subtidally and the main reef-building vermetid gastropod, Dendropoma petraeum, intertidally). Laboratory work has shown that many native species that are still abundant are likely to disappear under increasing warming, while aliens are much more resistant. Mesocosm experiments demonstrated that, under both warming and acidification, the community structure will further shift, and whole community functions will transform from autotrophic to heterotrophic.

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Levantine Basinbioinvasionsclimate changerocky reefsgrazingpredationocean warmingvermetid reefsecosystem functions
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Global Patterns and Processes
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