Por Francis D
Department of Evolution Systematics and Ecology, the National Collections of Natural History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Integr Zool. 2010 Jun;5(2):112-121. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-4877.2010.00194.x.
The Mediterranean, a sea with an already eventful history, is again undergoing an extreme change. A combination of general warming of the Mediterranean Sea and contact with the Indopacific world through the Suez Canal has set the stage for massive changes in the biota that inhabit this sea. For over a century, tropical species of all taxa have been migrating back into the Mediterranean, suggesting a duplication or restoration of a mid-Pliocene Piacenzian or late Miocene Tortonian situation. Test cases are presented in three major taxa. It is not a serial invasion by individual rogue exotic and damaging species, as often wrongly assumed and asserted. Despite its unique biogeographic magnitude being recognized, an opportunity to study the progress of this phenomenon is being missed. This is because of the changed priorities in research, the acute taxonomic impediment and to the geopolitical difficulties in cooperation. Nonetheless, the limitations of the restoration process are defined and a careful future outlook is presented.
地中海，这片拥有着丰富历史的海域，正再次经历着极端变化。地中海的普遍升温以及通过苏伊士运河与印度-太平洋世界的接触，共同为栖息在这片海域的生物群带来了巨大变化。一个多世纪以来，所有分类群的热带物种都在向地中海回迁，这表明上新世中期皮亚琴察阶或中新世晚期托尔托纳阶的情况正在重现或恢复。文中呈现了三个主要分类群的实例。这并非如人们常常错误假设和断言的那样，是个别有害外来物种的连续入侵。尽管这一独特生物地理现象的规模已得到认可，但研究这一现象进展的机会却被错失。这是由于研究重点的变化、严重的分类学障碍以及合作中的地缘政治困难。尽管如此，文中明确了恢复过程的局限性，并给出了谨慎的未来展望。
