Marine Biofouling
Colonization Processes and Defenses
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2003
Crc Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8493-1419-3 (ISBN)
Crc Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8493-1419-3 (ISBN)
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Delivers a description of colonization processes and detailing ways to prevent biofouling. Taking a complex problem, the author breaks it down into its fundamental ecological and biological components. He expounds on organism locomotor reactions, larvae drift, settlement and attachment mechanisms, impact, and protection from epibionts.
Recent instances of bioinvasion, such as the emergence of the zebra mussel in the American Great Lakes, generated a demand among marine biologists and ecologists for groundbreaking new references that detail how organisms colonize hard substrates, and how to prevent damaging biomass concentrations.
Marine Biofouling: Colonization Processes and Defenses is the English language version of a comprehensive work by eminent Russian scientist Alexander I. Railkin, who details the causes of vast biomass concentrations on submerged hard substrates. He also delivers a quantitative description of colonization processes and provides detailed models for preventing biofouling.
This volume expounds on many topics rarely discussed in the frame of one book: types of hard substrate communities; comparison of hard and soft substrate communities; harm caused by micro- and macrofoulers; larval taxes and drift; mechanisms of settlement and attachment of microorganisms, invertebrates, ascidians and macroalgae; the impact of currents; protection from epibionts; industrial biofouling protection; successions on hard substrates; and the recovery of disturbed communities or the self-assembly of communities. The text includes much Russian-language research translated for the first time.
Through a thorough examination of substrate organisms and an exploration of preventive methods, this monograph prepares those concerned with marine biology to help protect the self-purifying organisms that keep marine ecosystems healthy and productive.
Recent instances of bioinvasion, such as the emergence of the zebra mussel in the American Great Lakes, generated a demand among marine biologists and ecologists for groundbreaking new references that detail how organisms colonize hard substrates, and how to prevent damaging biomass concentrations.
Marine Biofouling: Colonization Processes and Defenses is the English language version of a comprehensive work by eminent Russian scientist Alexander I. Railkin, who details the causes of vast biomass concentrations on submerged hard substrates. He also delivers a quantitative description of colonization processes and provides detailed models for preventing biofouling.
This volume expounds on many topics rarely discussed in the frame of one book: types of hard substrate communities; comparison of hard and soft substrate communities; harm caused by micro- and macrofoulers; larval taxes and drift; mechanisms of settlement and attachment of microorganisms, invertebrates, ascidians and macroalgae; the impact of currents; protection from epibionts; industrial biofouling protection; successions on hard substrates; and the recovery of disturbed communities or the self-assembly of communities. The text includes much Russian-language research translated for the first time.
Through a thorough examination of substrate organisms and an exploration of preventive methods, this monograph prepares those concerned with marine biology to help protect the self-purifying organisms that keep marine ecosystems healthy and productive.
Railkin/, Alexander I.
Communities on Submerged Hard Bodies. Biofouling as a Process. Temporary Planktonic Existence. Settlement of Larvae. Induction and Simulation of Settlement by a Hard Surface. Attachment, Development, and Growth. Fundamentals of the Quantitative Theory of Colonization. General Regularities of Biofouling. Protection of Man-Made Structures against Biofouling. Ecologically Safe Protection from Biofouling. The General Model of Protection Against Biofouling.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.12.2003 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 21 Tables, black and white; 5 Halftones, black and white; 67 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Bosa Roca |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 740 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8493-1419-4 / 0849314194 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8493-1419-3 / 9780849314193 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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