Concentrated sodium chloride brine solutions as an additional treatment for preventing the introduction of nonindigenous species in the ballast tanks of ships declaring no ballast on board

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 346-353

  Santagata, Scott ^a,f   Bacela, Karolina ^b   Reid, David F ^c   Mclean, Kevin A ^a   Cohen, Jill S ^a   Cordell, Jeffery R ^d   Brown, Christopher W ^a   Johengen, Thomas H ^e   Ruiz, Gregory M ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ballast water; Great Lakes; Introduced species; Salinity tolerance; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BALLAST WATER; GREAT LAKES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; SALINITY TOLERANCE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; LAKES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; SHIPS; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TANKS;

BALLAST TANKS;

SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANTIFOULING; ANTIFOULING AGENT; BALLAST WATER; BRACKISH WATER; BRINE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRUSTACEAN; MORTALITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOTA; CLADOCERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; CRUSTACEA; HYPEROSMOTIC STRESS; LETHAL DOSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALT TOLERANCE; SHIP; SURVIVAL TIME; TANK; UNITED STATES; WATER TREATMENT;

ANIMALS; SHIPS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLUTIONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; PERACARIDA;

EID: 61349159206     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/08-140.1     Document Type: Article

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