Assessing ballast water treatments: Evaluation of viability methods for ambient freshwater microplankton assemblages

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• microplankton 90%
• ballast water 86%
• viability 61%
• water treatment 59%
• organism 44%
• freshwater organism 23%
• group size 20%
• freshwater environment 20%
• propagule 20%
• flow cytometry 20%
• mandate 19%
• invasive species 17%
• range size 16%
• biological processes 16%
• chemical process 16%
• digestion 16%
• physical process 15%
• method 14%
• ship 14%
• enzyme 13%
• organization 11%
• lake 9%

Agriculture & Biology

• ballast water 100%
• water treatment 70%
• viability 49%
• organisms 37%
• fluorescein diacetate 18%
• methodology 17%
• Great Lakes 16%
• ships 14%
• group size 14%
• phytoplankton 13%
• invasive species 13%
• flow cytometry 12%
• Protozoa 12%
• dyes 10%
• digestion 9%
• staining 9%
• enzymes 5%