Biofouling

An essential reference for all those working in the antifouling industry,as well as aquatic biologists, ecologists, environmental scientists, lawyers, marine engineers, aquaculture personnel, chemists, medical researchers, students, and educators.

Biofouling (the colonization of an interface by a diverse array of organisms) is almost always a problem where it occurs, as it negatively affects surfaces, the materials that they are made from and the structures that they form, and can even destroy them.

This comprehensive book, with many international contributions, covers in detail in its first section the processes involved in marine , freshwater and medical biofouling including coverage of settlement by larvae and spores, biofouling community processes, epibiosis (biofouling on living organisms) and microbial fouling, including biofilms deleterious to human health.

The book's second section, encompassing biofouling processes with industrial implications, includes coverage of biofouling on artificial substrata, paints and coatings technology for the control of marine biofouling, biofouling and antifouling in the maritime industries, such as shipping, offshore oil , and aquaculture, and in power stations and o

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Wiley

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Dürr, Simone;Thomason, Jeremy

ISBN:

978-1-40-516926-4

Specialty:

• Aquatic Sciences

Language:

English

Edition:

1st

Pages:

456

Publication Year:

2009

Doody Core Title Score:

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