Marine biofouling : colonization processes and defenses /: colonization processes and defenses. (©2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alexander I. Railkin ; translators, Tatiana A. Ganf, Oleg G. Manylov.
• Other Names: Railkin, Alexander I
• Contents: COMMUNITIES ON SUBMERGED HARD BODIES; Organisms and Communities Inhabiting Surfaces of Hard Bodies; The Phenomenon of Organisms Concentration on Surfaces ofSelf-Assembly of Communities; ; TEMPORARY PLANKTONIC EXISTENCE; Release of Dispersal Forms into Plankton; Buoyancy and Locomotion of Propagules; Taxes and Vertical Distribution of Larvae; The Offshore and Oceanic Drift; ; SETTLEMENT OF LARVAE; The Reasons of Passing over to Periphytonic Existence; Taxes and Distribution of Larvae During Settlement; Sensory Systems Participating in the Substrate Selection; Selectivity During Settlement; ; INDUCTION AND STIMULATION OF SETTLEMENT BY A HARD SURFACE; Types of Induction and Stimulation of Settlement; Distant Chemical Induction; Contact Heterospecific Chemical Induction; Conspecific Chemical Induction and Aggregations; Stimulation of Settlement, Attachment, and Metamorphosis by Microfouling; The Influence of Physical Surface Factors on Settlement; Combined Influence of Surface Factors on Settlement. The Hierarchy of Factors; Settlement on the Surface Technical Objects; ; ATTACHMENT, DEVELOPMENT, AND GROWTH; Attachment of Microorganisms; Mechanisms of Attachment of Larvae and Spores of Macroorganisms; Natural Inductors of Settlement, Attachment, and Metamorphosis; Universal Mechanisms of Attachment; Growth and Colonization of the Hard surface; ; FUNDAMENTALS OF THE QUANTITATIVE THEORY OF COLONIZATION; Mathematical Models of Accumulation; Mathematical Models of Feeding and Growth; Gradient Distribution of Foulers over Surfaces in a Flow; ; GENERAL REGULARITIES OF BIOFOULING; Causes, Mechanisms, and Limits of Biofouling Concentration on Hard Surfaces; Evolution of Hard-Substrate Communities; ; PROTECTION OF MAN-MADE STRUCTURES AGAINST BIOFOULING; Physical Protection; Commercial Chemobiocidal Protection; Ecological Consequences of Toxicant Application; ; ECOLOGICALLY SAFE PROTECTION FROM BIOFOULING; Defense Against Epibionts; Natural and Industrial Anticolonization Protection; Repellent Protection; Antiadhesive Protection; Biocidal Protection; Prospects of Developing Ecologically Safe Anticolonization Protection; ; THE GENERAL MODEL OF PROTECTION AGAINST BIOFOULING; ; Conclusion; References; Index;
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Copyright Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (303 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 578.6/5/09162; Marine fouling organisms; Fouling; SCIENCE -- Microscopes & Microscopy; NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife; Fouling; Marine fouling organisms; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0203503236; 9780203503232; 9780849314193; 0849314194
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-280) and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
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