While there has been much research on the impacts of European trade and the resulting spread of invasive plants, animals and diseases elsewhere on the planet, considerably less attention has been paid to the reverse flow. In this article I draw on examples from the book I co-edited with Ana Queiroz, Histories of Bioinvasions in the Mediterranean (Springer, 2018), and discuss both gaps and prospects for future research. Finally, I speculate as to whether bioinvasions my ultimately destroy the ecological coherence that has been used to define a ‘Mediterranean basin’ region. If so, perhaps they will force us to rethink the conceptual framework of a Mediterranean region, while also warning of its fragility, conceptually and physically.

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生物入侵和地中海的想法

尽管对欧洲贸易的影响以及由此导致的入侵植物、动物和疾病在地球其他地方的传播进行了大量研究，但对逆向流动的关注却少得多。在本文中，我借鉴了我与 Ana Queiroz 合着的《地中海生物入侵历史》（Springer，2018 年）一书中的例子，并讨论了未来研究的差距和前景。最后，我推测生物入侵是否最终会破坏用于定义“地中海盆地”区域的生态一致性。如果是这样，也许它们将迫使我们重新思考地中海地区的概念框架，同时也警告其在概念和物理上的脆弱性。