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Transmission of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) in simulated ballast water confirms the potential for ship-born spread [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2022
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) remains an unprecedented epizootic disease, representing a substantial threat to the persistence and health of coral reef ecosystems in the Tropical Western Atlantic since its first observation near Miami, Florida ...
Michael S. Studivan, Michelle Baptist, Vanessa Molina, Scott Riley, Matthew First, Nash Soderberg, Ewelina Rubin, Ashley Rossin, Daniel M. Holstein, Ian C. Enochs   +9 more
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Simulated Discharge of Ballast Water Reveals Potential Contribution to Spread of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Geographically Isolated Receiving Waters [PDF]

Antibiotics
Background/Objectives: The propagation of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) poses a huge threat to environmental and human health. The ballast water from ships has been recognized as an important vector of ARGs.
Jianhong Shi, Chengyuan Ji, Rui Wang, Chaoli Sun, Baoyi Lv   +4 more
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Monitoring Alien Species Diversity in Ballast Water Based on Environmental DNA Metabarcoding [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
Invasive alien species pose serious threats to ecosystems, public health, and socio‐economic systems, with ballast water discharge serving as a major pathway for their introduction.
Hanglei Li, Hui Jia, Jingbo Peng, Xiaofeng Peng, Zhipeng Ren, Hui Zhang   +5 more
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Temporal modelling of ballast water discharge and ship-mediated invasion risk to Australia [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2015
Biological invasions have the potential to cause extensive ecological and economic damage. Maritime trade facilitates biological invasions by transferring species in ballast water, and on ships' hulls.
Robert C. Cope, Thomas A. A. Prowse, Joshua V. Ross, Talia A. Wittmann, Phillip Cassey   +4 more
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Potential Applications of a Novel Ballast Water Pretreatment Device: Grinding Device

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021
To investigate the removal efficiency of the grinding device (GD) as a potential replacement for the pretreatment filtration device of ballast water, solid grinding and viability experiment were conducted according to a treatment flow rate of 5 tons ...
Bonggil Hyun, Hyung-Gon Cha, Yeong-Kyu An, Yong-Seok Park, Min-Chul Jang, Pung-Guk Jang, Kyoungsoon Shin   +6 more
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Toxicity of Antifouling Biocides and Wastes from Ships’ Surfaces during High-Pressure Water-Blasting Cleaning Activities in the Nauplii and Eggs of the Estuarine Copepod Paracalanus parvus sl

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022
Copepods, the dominant member of zooplankton and major grazers of phytoplankton in the pelagic ecosystem, are at risk from exposure to antifouling biocides.
Bonggil Hyun, Pung-Guk Jang, Kyoungsoon Shin, Moonkoo Kim, Ju-Hak Jung, Hyung-Gon Cha, Min-Chul Jang   +6 more
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Characteristic and Relative Environmental Risk of Disinfection by Products Associated with Simple Glucose or Naturally Occurring Algal Organic Matter as Tested in Ballast Water Treatment System

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022
To prevent the invasion of alien species, the International Maritime Organization and the United States Costal Guard require that a ballast water management system (BWMS) be installed on ships to treat the ballast water before discharging it.
Pung-Guk Jang, Hyung-Gon Cha, Min-Chul Jang, Bonggil Hyun, Tae Seob Choi, Younseok Kang, Kyoungsoon Shin   +6 more
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Do Ballast Water Management Systems Reduce Phytoplankton Introductions to Canadian Waters?

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Global coastal aquatic ecosystems are negatively impacted by the introduction of harmful aquatic species through the discharge of ships’ ballast water. To reduce discharges of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens, such as toxic phytoplankton species ...
Oscar Casas-Monroy, Sarah A. Bailey
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The Effects of Ocean Acidification and Warming on Growth of a Natural Community of Coastal Phytoplankton

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020
An in situ mesocosm experiment was performed to investigate the combined effects of ocean acidification and warming on the coastal phytoplankton standing stock and species composition of a eutrophic coastal area in the temperate-subtropical region ...
Bonggil Hyun, Ja-Myung Kim, Pung-Guk Jang, Min-Chul Jang, Keun-Hyung Choi, Kitack Lee, Eun Jin Yang, Jae Hoon Noh, Kyoungsoon Shin   +8 more
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Assessing the effectiveness of filtration + UV-C radiation for the treatment of simulated ballast water at various holding times

Water Science and Technology, 2023
In recent years, the issue of invasive alien species brought on by ballast water has drawn increasing attention, and advances in ballast water treatment technologies have been made.
Yanan Wang, Qiong Wang, Kairui Dong, Jianwu Chen, Huixian Wu   +4 more
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