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This study had the support of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) Strategic Projects UID/MAR/04292/2020 and UIDB/04004/2020 granted to MARE and CFE respectively (through national funds; PIDDAC), the grant awarded to Lénia Rato (SFRH/BD/138492/2018) and the contracts attributed to Sara Leston, Filipe Martinho, and Sara Novais in the scope of the Decree- Law 57/2016. Further support was provided by FCT through project MARINE INVADERS—The impact and mechanisms of success of the invasive seaweed Asparagopsis armata on coastal environments (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031144). The project was also partly funded by the Integrated Programmes of SR&TD “SmartBioR” (reference Centro-01-0145-FEDER-000018) and ReNature (CENTRO-01-0145- FEDER-000007) co-funded by Centro 2020 program, Portugal2020, European Union, through the European Regional Development Fund, and project “Global Invaders—Global trends among valued aquatic invertebrate species: competitive advantages across different latitudes” funded by FCT and DAAD—Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.