Marine Biofouling

Colonization Processes and Defenses

Alexander I. Railkin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

316 Seiten

2020
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-0-367-45441-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2020
Zusatzinfo	21 Tables, black and white; 5 Halftones, black and white; 67 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-367-45441-6 / 0367454416
ISBN-13	978-0-367-45441-8 / 9780367454418
Zustand	Neuware