• DocumentCode
    3339739
  • Title

    Notice of Retraction
    Investigation of Plankton in Ballast Water of Two Chinese Domestic Voyages

  • Author

    Yu Liu ; Shan Wang ; Qi Wang ; Ying Li ; Haixia Wang ; Yongyi Guan

  • Author_Institution
    Dalian Maritime Univ., Dalian, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    10-12 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    Notice of Retraction

    After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.

    We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

    The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.

    Investigation of plankton in ballast water in two Chinese domestic voyages has been carried out during April 2009. One voyage is from Dalian to Haikou during April 11 to 15, and the other return voyage is from Haikou to Dalian during April 11 to 22. The decrease trend of plankton abundance and biomass were detected during two voyages, and in the route of Haikou to Dalian the decrease of plankton were more sharply. Causing red tide and species invasion were seemed could be neglected in these domestic voyages. However, the potential destroy of ecological balance on plankton species composition were should be emphasis. The nutrition factors especially nitrate and ammonium contents have significant correlation with Chla, and phosphates contents also significant correlated with phytoplankton biomass, which indicated that the nitrogen and phosphorus were also key limiting nutrition factors in ballast water tank.
  • Keywords
    ammonium compounds; ecology; microorganisms; phosphorus compounds; renewable energy sources; water; Chinese domestic voyages; Chla; Dalian; Haikou; ammonium contents; ballast water; ecological balance; nitrate contents; nutrition factors; phosphates contents; phytoplankton biomass; plankton species composition; Biomass; Correlation; Electronic ballasts; Ocean temperature; Sea measurements; Storage tanks; Tides;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Wuhan
  • ISSN
    2151-7614
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5088-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/icbbe.2011.5781210
  • Filename
    5781210