The active development of the global marine trade industries has been known to increase the inflows of marine invasive species and harmful organisms into the ecosystem, and the marine ecological disturbances. One of these invasive species, Ciona robusta, has now spread to the Korea Strait, the East Sea, and Jeju Island in connection with the climate change but not the Yellow Sea in Korea. Currently, the spread and distribution of C. robusta is increasingly damaging aquaculture and related facilities. Therefore, this study aims to identify the spread of C. robusta and potential habitats and to secure a data for the prevention of effective management measures due to climate change as well as damage the reduction in future through the prediction of spread. We used environmental variables in BioOracle. Also, the potential habitat and distribution of C. robusta was predicted using MaxEnt, a species distribution model. Two different RCP scenarios (4.5 and 8.5) were specified to predict the future distributions of C. robusta. The results showed that the biggest environmental factor affecting the distribution of C. robusta was the salinity as well as

• 박주언(삼육대학교 생명과학과) | Ju-Un Park (Department of Life Science, Sahmyook University)
• 홍진솔(고려대학교 환경생태공학부) | Jinsol Hong (Division of Environmental Science & Ecological Engineering, Korea University)
• 김동건(삼육대학교 스미스교양대학) | Dong Gun Kim (Smith Liberal Arts College, Sahmyook University)
• 윤태중(삼육대학교 해양생명자원연구소) | Tae Joong Yoon (Institute of Marine Life Resources, Sahmyook University)
• 신숙(삼육대학교 생명과학과) | Sook Shin (Department of Life Science, Sahmyook University) Corresponding author