{"pk":39747,"title":"Tracking the invasion of the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) (Decapoda Cambaridae) in Sicily: a “citizen science” approach","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The first record of the red swamp crayfish in Sicily dates back to 2003 and, since then, the species seemed to be confined to a few localities in western Sicily. A small “citizen science” project carried out from November 2016 onwards led to the creation of the “Sicilian \nProcambarus\n working group” (SPwg), which aims at monitoring the distribution and impact of the species in Sicily. To date, the SPwg found the red swamp crayfish in five new sites on the island, thus doubling the number of local sites of occurrence. The new \nProcambarus clarkii\n sites lie in different river basins, some of them located several hundred kilometres from the invaded areas known to date, suggesting the existence of multiple independent releases of the species in the wild. The need of better informing the local population on the risks exerted by invasive species on biological diversity, and of carefully monitoring the impact of \nP. clarkii\n on the Sicilian inland water biota is briefly stressed.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"citizen science"},{"word":"Red swamp crayfish"},{"word":"alien species"},{"word":"biological invasions"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/07d8m23j","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Francesco","middle_name":"Paolo","last_name":"Faraone","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Gabriele","middle_name":"","last_name":"Giacalone","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Domenica","middle_name":"Emanuela","last_name":"Canale","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Stefania","middle_name":"","last_name":"D'Angelo","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Giorgio","middle_name":"","last_name":"Favaccio","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Vincenzo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Garozzo","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Giacoma","middle_name":"Lidia","last_name":"Giancontieri","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Carmelo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Isgrò","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Raffaella","middle_name":"","last_name":"Melfi","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Bruno","middle_name":"","last_name":"Morello","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Federica","middle_name":"","last_name":"Navarria","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Giuseppe","middle_name":"","last_name":"Russo","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Viviana","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tinnirello","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Antonio","middle_name":"","last_name":"Torre","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Daniele","middle_name":"","last_name":"Torre","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Giancarlo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Torre","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Giuseppe","middle_name":"","last_name":"Urso","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Pierluigi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Vinci","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Maria Grazia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zizzo","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg)","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Federico","middle_name":"","last_name":"Marrone","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sicilian Procambarus working group (SPwg), and University of Palermo","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2017-06-27T09:01:00-04:00","date_accepted":"2017-06-27T09:01:00-04:00","date_published":"2017-11-14T08:40:31-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/biogeographia/article/39747/galley/29938/download/"}]}