MARINE INVASIVES

Marine Invertebrates

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Tunicates

• Invasive Tunicates - The Western Regional Panel on Aquatic Nuisance Species (2014)

• Population control to mitigate the spread of marine pests: insights from management of the Asian kelp Undaria pinnatifida and colonial ascidian Didemnum vexillum (Forrest and Hopkins 2013)

• Invasive Species Tunicate Response in the Puget Sound Region, 2007-2009 - Biennial report (LeClair, Pleus and Schultz 2009)

 

Chinese Mitten Crab

• Report: U.S. Atlantic — Chinese Mitten Crab Update (May 2010)

• Report: Mitten Crab (Eriocheir spp.) Recruitment: Factors that Influence Larval Supply and Return to Settlement Sites (Hanson and Sytsma 2005)

• Report: The Potential For Mitten Crab Colonization of Estuaries on the West Coast of North America (Hanson and Sytsma 2005)

 

Green Crab

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•  Effect of increasing size on the ability of green crab (Carcinus maenas) to manipulate and eat commercially and ecologically important species in the Pacific Northwest (Anaya et al 2025)

• European Green Crab 2025-2031 Management Plan for Washington (Turner 2024)

• Summary of the use of sex pheromones to control the invasive green crab, Carcinus maenas (Yamada 2024) 

• Status of the European Green Crab, Carcinus maenas, (aka 5-spine crab) in Oregon Estuaries. Report for 2023 (Yamada et al. 2023) 

• Summary of Magnet Study, June 18-19, 2023 (Yamada and Royer, 2023)

• The Green Wave: reviewing the environmental impacts of the invasive European green crab (Carcinus maenas) and potential management approaches (Ens et al. 2022)

• Effect of Predator  Exclusion on Softshell Clam (Mya arenaria L.) Recruitment (Young 2022)

• A pheromone bouquet controls the reproductive behaviour of the male shore crab, Carcinus maenas (Fletcher et al. 2021)

• The role of changing pH on olfactory success of predator–prey interactions in green shore crabs, Carcinus maenas (Richardson et al. 2021)

• Ocean Indicators Predict Range Expansion of an Introduced Species: Invasion History of the European Green Crab Carcinus maenas on the North American Pacific Coast (Yamada, et al. 2021)

• Washington State European Green Crab Stakeholder Meeting (Feb. 18, 2021) [video recording]

• Functional eradication as a framework for invasive species control (Green and Grosholz 2021) 

• Engaging the importance of community scientists in the management of an invasive marine pest (Grosholz et al. 2021)

• Stage-specific overcompensation, the hydra effect, and the failure to eradicate an invasive predator (Grosholz et al. 2021)

• European Green Crabs in Oregon: are they now established? (Yamada et al. 2021)  (Webinar Recording) 

• Status of Green Crabs in Coos Bay: Monitoring Report 2020 

• First detection of the invasive European green crab Carcinus maenas on Lummi Nation reservation tidelands (Mueller and Jefferson 2019)

• Habitat alteration by invasive European green crab (Carcinus maenas) causes eelgrass loss in British Columbia, Canada (Howard et al. 2019)

• Lifting Barriers to Range Expansion: the European Green Crab Carcinus maenas Enters the Salish Sea (Yamada et al. 2017)

• Evaluating trapping as a method to control the European green crab, Carcinus maenas, population at Pipestem Inlet, British Columbia  (Duncombe and Therriault 2017)

• Citizen science program detects range expansion of the globally invasive European green crab in Washington State (Grason et al. 2017)

• Effects of spatial resolution on predicting the distribution of aquatic invasive species in nearshore marine environments (Lowen et al. 2016)

• Maine’s Declining Soft-Shell Clam Population Predation by European Green Crabs and Using Eelgrass Loss to Identify At-Risk Zones (Spence 2015)

• Biological and physical ocean indicators predict the success of an invasive crab, Carcinus maenas, in the northern California Current (Yamada, Peterson and Kosro 2015)

• Loss of Eelgrass in Casco Bay, Maine, Linked to Green Crab Disturbance (Neckles 2015)

• Break-even analysis for a green crab fishery in PEI, Canada (2016)

• Distribution and Biological Characteristics of European Green Crab, Carcinus maenas, in British Columbia, 2006–2013 (Gillespie et al. 2015)

• An invasive species facilitates the recovery of salt marsh ecosystems on Cape Cod (Bertness and Coverdale 2013)

• Australian National Control Plan for the European green shore crab Carcinus maenas (2008)

• Modeling the impacts of the European green crab on commercial shellfisheries (Grosholz et al. 2011)

• Will the European green crab (Carcinus maenas) persist in the Pacific Northwest? (Yamada and Gillespie 2008)

• Northward Spread of Marine Nonindigenous Species along Western North America: Forecasting Risk of Colonization in Alaskan Waters Using Environmental Niche Modeling (de Rivera et al. 2007) 

• Modeling Economic Impacts of the European Green Crab (Lovell et al. 2007) 

• A Biological Synopsis of the European Green Crab, Carcinus maenas (Klassen and Locke 2007)

• Status of the European Green Crab, Carcinus maenas, in British Columbia – 2006 (Gillespie et al. 2007)

• Management Plan for the European Green Crab (Grosholz and Ruiz ed. 2002)

• Global Invader: The European Green Crab (Behrens Yamada 2001)

• The Role of Predation by the Red Rock Crab, Cancer productus, on the Invasive European Green Crab, Carcinus maenas, in Yaquina Bay, Oregon ( Hunt 2001)

• Recent Biological Invasion May Hasten Invasional Meltdown by Accelerating Historical Introductions (Grosholz 1995)