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1 online resource (xxxiii, 431 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
PROLOGUE: Death of an icon -- DOMINION: Conquering nature -- Vampires of the deep -- Salt in the wound -- Alewife invasion -- A king is born -- PLAGUE: Fatal error -- Dangerous cargo -- Reckoning -- Ruffe seas -- Smoke and mirrors -- Meltdown -- DREISSENA EFFECT: Something amuck -- Blue, green, and deadly -- Cruel hoax -- Caspian Sea diet -- Whitefish and green slime -- Paradox -- Fear this -- BETRAYAL: Dirty secrets -- Who's in charge? -- Mission impossible -- Seaway heretics -- Westward Ho! -- Saving paradise -- EPILOGUE: Hope amid the ruins |
| Summary |
The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world''s greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The 1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world''s seven seas increased global trade in the Great Lakes region. But it came at an extraordinarily high price. Foreign species that immigrated into the lakes in ocean freighters'' ballast water tanks unleashed a biological |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Biological invasions -- Great Lakes (North America)
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Nonindigenous aquatic pests -- Great Lakes (North America)
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Discharge of ballast water -- Environmental aspects -- Saint Lawrence Seaway
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Discharge of ballast water -- Government policy -- North America
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Nonindigenous aquatic pests -- Control -- Great Lakes (North America)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Biological invasions
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Discharge of ballast water -- Environmental aspects
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Nonindigenous aquatic pests
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Nonindigenous aquatic pests -- Control
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Aquatisches Ökosystem
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Ballasttank
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Invasion Biologie
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Umweltkatastrophe
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Great Lakes
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North America
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North America -- Saint Lawrence Seaway
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Große Seen
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008048261 |
| ISBN |
9781609171971 |
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1609171977 |
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9781628961034 |
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1628961031 |
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9781628951035 |
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1628951036 |
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