Enumerating sparse organisms in ships' ballast water: Why counting to 10 is not so easy

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3539-3546

  Miller, A Whitman ^a   Frazier, Melanie ^b   Smith, George E ^a   Perry, Elgin S ^c   Ruiz, Gregory M ^a   Tamburri, Mario N ^d  

^a SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c Statistics Consultant   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLAST WATER; BURDEN OF PROOF; COMPLIANCE TESTING; DISCHARGE CONCENTRATION; INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATIONS; LOWER LIMITS; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; RARE EVENT; ROBUST ESTIMATE; SAMPLE VOLUME; SAMPLING ERRORS; SAMPLING VOLUME; STATISTICAL MODELING; STATISTICAL POWER; TREATMENT SYSTEMS; TYPE I AND TYPE II ERRORS; UNITED STATES COAST GUARD;

ERROR DETECTION; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; SHIP TESTING; STANDARDS; WATER;

SHIPS;

WATER;

BALLAST WATER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PLANKTON; SAMPLING; VOLUME;

ARTICLE; BIOTA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; SHIP; STATISTICAL MODEL; WASTE DISPOSAL; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIOMASS; BIOTA; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANKTON; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SHIPS;

EID: 79954516473     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es102790d     Document Type: Article

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