Document of bibliographic reference 282311

BibliographicReference record

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Bibliographic resource

Type of document

Journal article

BibLvlCode

AS

Title

Vessel biofouling as an inadvertent vector of benthic invertebrates occurring in Brazil

Abstract

This article reviews the literature involving benthic invertebrates that are cited in association with hull fouling, reporting the species that occur on the Brazilian coast and evaluating the importance of this vector for the introduction of nonindigenous and cryptogenic invertebrates in Brazil. It discusses some of the strategies that were used by the species that allowed for their overseas transport and made it easier to cross natural barriers that otherwise would have been obstacles to their dispersion. The compiled data list 343 species (65% nonindigenous and 35% cryptogenic), mainly from the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. The traveling fauna, composed mostly of cosmopolitan species (70.3%), is primarily euryhaline and marine stenohaline, with sessile and sedentary habits. After delineating the shipborne species’ ecological profiles and traveling strategies and evaluating their overlapping vectors, we concluded that hull vessels were the main vector of introduction to the Brazilian coast for 89.8% of the compiled species.

WebOfScience code

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000290842800032

Bibliographic citation

Farrapeira, C.M.R.; de Oliveira Tenório, D.; do Amaral, F.D. (2011). Vessel biofouling as an inadvertent vector of benthic invertebrates occurring in Brazil. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 62(4): 832-839. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.12.014

Topic

Marine

Is peer reviewed

true