Risk assessment and management scenarios for ballast water mediated species introductions into the Baltic Sea

Aquatic Invasions

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 313-340

  Gollasch, Stephan ^a   Leppäkoski, Erkki ^b  

^a Åbo Akademi University Environmental and Marine Biology ^*  (Germany)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alien species; Ballast water; Baltic Sea; HELCOM; Management; Risk assessment; Shipping

Indexed keywords

EID: 56949094942     PISSN: 17986540     EISSN: 18185487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3391/ai.2007.2.4.3     Document Type: Article

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