Bacterial dynamics in ballast water during trans-oceanic voyages of bulk carriers: Environmental controls

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 436, Issue , 2011, Pages 145-159

  Seiden, Jennica M ^a   Way, Candice J ^a   Rivkin, Richard B ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Ballast water; Heterotrophic bacteria; Invasive species; Mid ocean exchange; Oxygen; Pacific Ocean; Predictive model; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BALLAST WATER; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; INVASIVE SPECIES; OXYGEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROPAGULE;

ATLANTIC COAST [CANADA]; ATLANTIC COAST [EUROPE]; ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; JAPAN; PACIFIC COAST [CANADA]; PACIFIC COAST [JAPAN]; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80052306767     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09231     Document Type: Article

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