Marine biofouling : colonization processes and defenses / by Alexander I. Railkin ; translators, Tatiana A. Ganf and Oleg G. Manylov
Imprint
Baca Raton : CRC Press, 2004
Descript
303 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
CONTENT
1. Communities on submerged hard bodies -- 2. Biofouling as a process -- 3. Temporary planktonic existence -- 4. Settlement of larvae -- 5. Induction and stimulation of settlement by a hard surface -- 6. Attachment, development, and growth -- 7. Fundamentals of the quantitative theory of colonization -- 8. General regularities of biofouling -- 9. Protection of man-made structures against biofouling -- 10. Ecologically safe protection from biofouling -- 11. The general model of protection against biofouling