Bacterial diversity in ships' ballast water, ballast-water exchange, and implications for ship-mediated dispersal of microorganisms

DS Lymperopoulou, FC Dobbs - Environmental Science & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
… Ballasting operations associated with commercial shipping … have introduced nonindigenous
organisms globally, and some … to kill or remove microorganisms, overseas ballast water …

Global concerns of ship's ballast water mediated translocation of bacteria

L Khandeparker, AC Anil - Marine pollution and microbial remediation, 2017 - Springer
Microorganisms are highly abundant in the natural … In a ship, microorganisms can be found
in several locations such … and fish, aquatic microorganisms are orders of magnitude more …

Pathogenic hitchhiker diversity on international ships' ballast water at West Malaysia port

NA Salleh, FN Rosli, MA Akbar, A Yusof… - Marine pollution …, 2021 - Elsevier
… This study investigates bacterial diversity and potential pathogens in the international ships'
ballast … information for further enhancing ballast water microorganism guidelines in Malaysia. …

Habitat Conditions of the Microbiota in Ballast Water of Ships Entering the Oder Estuary

K Zatoń-Sieczka, E Bogusławska-Wąs… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
… Chemical contamination of waters is a global threat as such pollutants can be extremely …
the length of the ship’s route and the abundance of isolated microorganisms. However, we …

[HTML][HTML] Microorganisms in ballast water: disinfection, community dynamics, and implications for management

OK Hess-Erga, J Moreno-Andrés, Ø Enger… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
… All ships must eventually comply with the established discharge limits, D-2 standard (Table
1… If free-living microorganisms are distributed globally, they have no biogeography and …

[PDF][PDF] Ship ballast water treatment

Y Dachev, M Tsvetkov, V Zlatev - WSEAS Transactions on Environment …, 2021 - wseas.com
… It raises the temperature of BW while the microorganisms are destroyed. The main
advantages of the technology are that the ship's heating system can be used and that it is not …

[PDF][PDF] Are we at Last Ready to Begin Controlling the Global Spread of Aquatic Invasives

T Fileman, T Vance, S de Mora - Int. J. Marine …, 2016 - pfigshare-u-files.s3.amazonaws.com
… aquatic invasives is hull fouling on ships, which is currently unregulated on a global scale. …
all these ships travel the oceans, they carry with them non-native species and microorganisms

Global comparison of the bacterial communities of bilge water, boat surfaces, and external port water

LG Schaerer, RB Ghannam, TM Butler… - Applied and …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
… in 20 shipping ports in five regions around the world, describing how these microorganisms
were similar to microorganisms … of a boat and that microorganisms living on a boat could be …

Biogeography of marine microorganisms

VÞ Marteinsson, R Groben, E Reynisson… - The marine microbiome …, 2016 - Springer
Globally occurring groups of microorganisms were detected … Genome analyses of these
marine microorganisms helped to … distributed by abiotic supports, like ship hulls or plastic waste. …

Prevention of microbial species introductions to the Arctic: The efficacy of footwear disinfection measures on cruise ships

SB Rumpf, IG Alsos, C Ware - 2018 - munin.uit.no
… contact time of the disinfectant with the microorganisms before a subsequent paired sample
was … relevance for ship and tour operators using similar footwear cleaning practices globally. …