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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Fouling communities"”.
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The use of computer intensive statistical modeling in estimating the variability of marine fouling communities.
The variability of the fouling community in Monterey Bay was investigated by suspending 100 mild steel plates in Monterey Harbor. The plates were painted with either a nontoxic control paint or one of three antifouling paints. Following the monthly retrieval of a group of these plates, a census of …
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Climate change and invasive species interact to impact succession and diversity in Gulf of Maine marine fouling communities
<p>Gulf of Maine subtidal communities have changed in recent years resulting from anthropogenic pressures such as climate change and the introduction of non-indigenous species. Sea surface temperatures have risen while salinity is predicted to decline; concurrently invasive tunicates (ascidians) …
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The Ecology and Demography of the Invasive Ascidian Botrylloides violaceus in the Coos Estuary
Marine fouling communities on docks and other man-made structures are highly susceptible to invasion by non-native ascidian species. Botrylloides violaceus, a colonial ascidian, is a cosmopolitan invader of fouling communities in bays and harbors including Oregon’s Coos Estuary. This study …
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Estudo de comunidades incrustantes sobre painéis experimentais em três áreas da Baía de Guanabara, RJ, Brasil
… work are reported the results of the study of fouling communities wich have been developed in artificial substrata using monthly and cumulative panels, during a year in the regions of Guanabara Bay: Urca Beach, Governador Island and Paquetá Island. Quantitative and qualitative data about the …
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Larval dispersal and population connectivity: implications for offshore renewable energy structures
… invasions. As common members of hard-substrate fouling communities and likely colonisers of MREDs, the larval dispersal processes of barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracia) in the Firth of Lorn (Scotland) are assessed at<br/>scales ranging from mm to 10s ¿ 100s km. At the scale of the organism itself, …
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Sexual dimorphism, resource partitioning and intraspecific aggression in Caprella californica Stimpson
… found on filamentous algae, sea grasses and fouling communities. Most published works on caprellids have been primarily concern~d with systematics (Caine, 1974; Dougherty, 1943; Laubitz, 1970, 1972; McCain, 1968, 1975), although a few recent studies have dealt with ecology and ethology …
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Settlement of marine fouling organisms in response to novel antifouling coatings
… by marine organisms, a process known as biofouling. Fouling costs maritime industries billions of dollars annually. The most common methods of combating marine biofouling are toxin containing antifouling coatings which often have detrimental non-target environmental effects. These effects …
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Assessing the vulnerability of Antarctic marine ecosystems to invasive non-native species
… for high-risk invaders should be established. Biofouling communities within the major pathway to Antarctica from Europe via the South Atlantic, identified in the network analysis, became my next focus. I obtained biofouling samples from the polar research vessel RRS James Clark Ross and found that …