Are the ecological effects of the “worst” marine invasive species linked with scientific and media attention?

• Nathan R. Geraldi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nathan.geraldi@kaust.edu.sa

  Affiliation Red Sea Research Center (RSRC) and Computational Biosciences Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2669-3867

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• Andrea Anton,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Red Sea Research Center (RSRC) and Computational Biosciences Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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• Catherine E. Lovelock,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

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• Carlos M. Duarte

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Red Sea Research Center (RSRC) and Computational Biosciences Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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