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Pablo Ramil Rego
GI-1934 Territorio-Biodiversidade. IBADER - Universidade deSantiago
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6415-8630
Marco Rubinos Román
GI-1934 Territorio-Biodiversidade. IBADER - Universidade de Santiago.
Spain
Luis Gómez-Orellana
GI-1934 Territorio-Biodiversidade. IBADER - Universidade de Santiago
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6915-2166
Boris Hinojo Sánchez
GI-1934 Territorio-Biodiversidade. IBADER - Universidade de Santiago
Spain
Patricia Rodríguez
Instituto Superiorde Agronomía. Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
Portugal
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8507-8429
No 10 (2014), Original articles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/rr.id3319
Submitted: 13-05-2016 Accepted: 13-05-2016
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The arrival of Water Hyacinth plants (Eichhornia crassipes (Mart) Solms.) at the beaches of theGalician
Atlantic Islands Maritime-Terrestrial National Park is assessed as a consequence, of a long distance transport of individuals coming from naturalized populations located on the Portuguese coast. This South American native species is highly invasive due to its fast growing and high reproductive capacity. Water hyacinth is named by the IUCN as one of the top one hundred of the world’s worst invasive alien species. It was first cited in Europe during the first half of the 20th century, in central Portugal, from where it has expanded mostly throughout the catchments of Tejo and Sado Rivers, although there are some other known populations in the north of Portugal. Its presence is quite exceptional in Galicia, being scarcely cited as it is normally linked to eradication events. During 2011 and 2012, after some SW squalls had passed by, some Eichhornia crassipes (Mart) Solms. remains were detected in one of the beaches of Cíes Island. Based upon the amount of plants, and the deterioration degree of the remains, it is thought that they have been transported from a big distant population.
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