Bridging troubled waters: Biological invasions, transoceanic shipping, and the Laurentian Great Lakes

BioScience

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 919-929

  Holeck, Kristen T ^a   Mills, Edward L ^a,b   MacIsaac, Hugh J ^c   Dochoda, Margaret R ^e   Colautti, Robert I ^c,d   Ricciardi, Anthony ^f  

^a Department of Natural Resources and the Environment   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e GREAT LAKES FISHERY COMMISSION   (United States)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ballast; Great Lakes; Nonindigenous species; Ship vector; Vector assignment protocol

Indexed keywords

LAURENTIA;

EID: 5444229142     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0919:BTWBIT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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