Could secondary flows have made possible the cross-strait transport and explosive invasion of Rugulopteryx okamurae algae in the Strait of Gibraltar?

• Jesús García-Lafuente ,

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

  * E-mail: glafuente@ctima.uma.es

  Affiliation Physical Oceanography Group, Instituto de Biotecnología y Desarrollo Azul (IBYDA), Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7816-576X

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• Irene Nadal,

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

  Affiliation Physical Oceanography Group, Instituto de Biotecnología y Desarrollo Azul (IBYDA), Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

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• Simone Sammartino,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Physical Oceanography Group, Instituto de Ingeniería Oceánica (IIO), Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

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• Nathalie Korbee,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Geology, Instituto de Biotecnología y Desarrollo Azul (IBYDA), Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

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• Félix L. Figueroa

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Geology, Instituto de Biotecnología y Desarrollo Azul (IBYDA), Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

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