Per capita invasion probabilities: An empirical model to predict rates of invasion via ballast water

Ecological Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 321-330

  Reusser, Deborah A ^a   Lee II, Henry ^b   Frazier, Melanie ^b   Ruiz, Gregory M ^c   Fofonoff, Paul W ^c   Minton, Mark S ^c   Miller, A Whitman ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic invaders; Ballast water discharge; IMO standards; Invasion probabilities; Propagule pressure

Indexed keywords

BALLAST WATER; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISCHARGE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION; INVASIBILITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY MAKING; PROPAGULE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD (REGULATION);

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; METHODOLOGY; SEWAGE; SHIP; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SHIPS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875821887     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1637.1     Document Type: Article

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