Marine Biofouling: Colonization Processes and Defenses - Hardcover

Railkin, Alexander I.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0849314194 ISBN 13: 9780849314193

Verlag: CRC Press Inc, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Recent instances of bioinvasion, such as the emergence of the zebra mussel in the American Great Lakes, generated a demand among marine biologists and ecologists for groundbreaking new references that detail how organisms colonize hard substrates, and how to prevent damaging biomass concentrations.

Marine Biofouling: Colonization Processes and Defenses is the English language version of a comprehensive work by eminent Russian scientist Alexander I. Railkin, who details the causes of vast biomass concentrations on submerged hard substrates. He also delivers a quantitative description of colonization processes and provides detailed models for preventing biofouling.

This volume expounds on many topics rarely discussed in the frame of one book: types of hard substrate communities; comparison of hard and soft substrate communities; harm caused by micro- and macrofoulers; larval taxes and drift; mechanisms of settlement and attachment of microorganisms, invertebrates, ascidians and macroalgae; the impact of currents; protection from epibionts; industrial biofouling protection; successions on hard substrates; and the recovery of disturbed communities or the self-assembly of communities. The text includes much Russian-language research translated for the first time.

Through a thorough examination of substrate organisms and an exploration of preventive methods, this monograph prepares those concerned with marine biology to help protect the self-purifying organisms that keep marine ecosystems healthy and productive.

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Alexander I. Railkin

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CRC Press Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0849314194
• ISBN 13: 9780849314193
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 303
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