Modeling ships' ballast water as invasion threats to the Great Lakes

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1245-1256

  MacIsaac, Hugh J ^a   Robbins, Thomas C ^a   Lewis, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BALLAST WATER; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; VESSEL;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0036379199     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f02-090     Document Type: Article

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