Open AccessShips Bring More Than Cargo to Arctic Waters
Author(s) -
Rebecca Heisman
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
eos (washington, d.c.)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2015eo041175
Subject(s) - arctic , the arctic , oceanography , business , fishery , aeronautics , environmental science , marine engineering , engineering , geology , biology
A probe of ballast water in ships at an Arctic port finds hitchhiking organisms that polar warming could allow to invade the region's ecosystems in less than 40 years.