CLIMATE CHANGE: SEA INVADER CAULERPA TAXIFOLIA TAKING OVER THE MEDITERRANEAN! by www.ecocorfu.gr

SEE HOW BEAUTIFUL AND FULL OF COLORS THE MEDITERRANEAN DEEP IS. AS THE VIDEO GOES ON, YOU CAN SEE THE GREEN FIELDS OF "CAULARPA TAXIFOLIA", THE MOST DANGEROUS INVADER SPECIES FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN THAT BREAKS DOWN COMPLETELY THE ECO SYSTEM.. COMING FROM THE TROPIC SEAS, IT GROWS FAST, FORMATTING GREEN FIELDS THAT TAKE OVER THE MEDITERRANEAN, KILLING ALL OTHER KINDS OF LIFE. CAULERPA REPLACES ALL SEA PLANTS CAULERPA'S SEADS HAVE BEEN CARRIED INSIDE THE BALLAST WATER OF BIG COMMERCIAL SHIPS FROM THE TROPIC SEAS TO THE MEDITERRANEAN, WHERE IT IS GROWING MORE AND MORE, DUE TO RISE OF THE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE. THE BIGGEST THREAT FOR THE MED SEA FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. STARTED FROM FRANCE, IT MOVED TO ITALY, AND NOW IT THREATENS THE IONIAN SEA AND THE REST OF GREECE

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• CLIMATE
• CHANGE
• SEA
• INVADER
• SPECIES
• CAULERPA TAXIFOLIA
• MEDITERRANEAN
• BALLAST
• WATER
• ECOCORFU

[EcoCorfu]

Well, It is a Ballast Water problem!

Climate change just makes it serius and tends to globalize it.

Please, first, see our video response above (full story to AUG 2009). It explains a bit better the situation. Second, please conduct the University of Marine Ecology of Dubrovnik. They will give you all the evidence that show that the theory you keep repeating was proven to be wrong long time ago. Thank you very much anyway :-) Please read again everything carefully.

[alpacks]

caulerpa taxifolia is not a climate change problem ... i know, because this plague's sea was begining in france : my country ...

by error probably of the oceanographic museum of Monaco which has incidentally by evacuation of waters surplus of museum's basins !

caulerpa is a Caribbean seaweed, but nobody in oceanographic museum and biologist thinked she can become acclimated in mediterranean sea with her winter, soft winter ok, but winter nonetheless ...

[EcoCorfu]

Well, It is a Ballast Water problem!

Climate change just makes it serius and tends to globalize it.

Please, first, see our video with tags " Caulerpa Taxifolia marine invasion part1 ecocorfu ". It explains a bit better the situation. Second, please conduct the University of Marine Ecology of Dubrovnik. They will give you all the evidence that show that the theory you keep repeating was proven to be wrong long time ago. Thank you very much anyway :-) Please read again everything carefully.

[caulerpaking]

eventually nature will take care of it probably a new species of tang mine love the stuff it might just take 10000 years or so

[EcoCorfu]

Well, yes, but the expertises say that everything is possible to happen. The only answer we can give to the question of "marine invaders" cases is "we simply do not know and cannot predict anything, as the data actually changes every day". As Dr Benovic said, It will normally take from 150 years and much more, for the invaded marine eco systems to regain the ecologic equilibrium. And this, ONLY and IF we stop NOW all the things that combined all together are causing the phenomenon to occur.

[EcoCorfu]

Nature has the ability ro REJECT organisms that belong to different climates, till a certain level, of course. Repetition of introduction of new spores, is what causes these big, and really dangerous for the stability of marine eco-systems, invasions. The spores that are brought and released around the Ports, come within the "Ballast water" of the big ship that curry mostly petroil. Ballast Water is actually the "enemy".

[quadrunner706]

just put some tangs in there problem solved!?

[xelance]

my father, Greig Peters, helped to form the Southern California Caulerpa Action Team. They successfully eradicated the caulerpa taxifolia in the agua hedionda lagoon and huntington harbor in June 2006. Thank you for this video, it shows just how important the eradication of Caulerpa was to the ecosystem in California. My father passed away in November, 2001 at the young age of 55, and didnt get to see the successful eradication, but his name & efforts as an environmental specialist will live on!

[alpacks]

however she have achieving its acclimation in north meditheranean sea (french cost, the most cold party with 10-12°c water in winter, 18-27°c in summer (28° unusually)

with 10-12°c waters in winter it"s a proof of no climate change problem with this seaweed : but an acclimation problem !

if caulerpa was just a climate change problem, the sea in french riviera in winter would be has + of 20°c in winter, but it's wrong, waters are always 10-12°c in winter in france ...

[VocalVerve]

By far one of the scariest videos on YouTube.

[frontliner2]

CAULERPA TAXIFOLIA wins