Hugh MacIsaac
CAISN Director
and Scientific Committee Chair
Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario
"Invasive species threaten the ecological
integrity of our ecosystems. They also cause economic damage and affect human, animal and plant health. The research of this network will give
us better understanding of these invaders and how we can work to
resolve these problems." - Hugh MacIsaac
CAISN Projects
- Ballast water discharge database
- Propagule pressure in relation to shipping mode & route
- 500-Lake survey
- Dispersal modes of Bythotrephes
- Analysis of source and destination port similarity
- Modeling risk of international ships
CAISN Publications
Domestic ballast operations on the Great Lakes: potential importance of Lakers as a vector for introduction and spread of nonindigenous species (PDF 184 KB)
R. KIPP, S.A. BAILEY, H.J. MACISAAC, AND A. RICCIARDI
Diversity and Distributions; 16, 77-83, 2010
Is vessel hull fouling an invasion threat to the Great Lakes? (PDF 300 KB)
FRANCISCO SYLVESTER AND HUGH J. MACISAAC
Diversity and Distributions; 16, 132-143, 2010
Domestic ballast operations on the Great Lakes: potential importance of Lakers as a vector for introduction and spread of nonindigenous species (PDF 732 KB)
MICHAEL P. RUP, SARAH A. BAILEY, CHRIS J. WILEY, MARK S. MINTON, A. WHITMAN MILER, GREGORY M. RUIZ, AND HUGH J. MACISAAC
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences; 67, 256-268, 2010
Detection of a Colonizing, Aquatic, Non-indigenous Species (PDF 620KB)
CHAD HARVEY, SAMIR QURESHI, AND HUGH MACISAAC
Diversity and Distributions; 15, 429-437. 2009
Modelling spread of the invasive macrophyte Cabomba caroliniana (PDF 388KB)
MICHAEL J. JACOBS AND HUGH J. MACISAAC
Freshwater Biology (2009) 54, 296–305, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02108.x
Salinity tolerance of Great Lakes invaders (PDF 328KB)
SANDRA M. ELLIS AND HUGH J. MACISAAC
Freshwater Biology (2009) 54, 77–89, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02098.x
Identifying the source of species invasions: sampling intensity vs. genetic diversity (PDF 284KB)
JIM R. MUIRHEAD, DEREK K. GRAY, DAVID W. KELLY, SANDRA M. ELLIS, DANIEL D. HEATH and HUGH J. MACISAAC
Molecular Ecology 2008, 17, 1020–1035; doi:10.1111/j. 1365-294X.2008.03669x
Evaluating the effectiveness of ballast water exchange policy in the Great Lakes (PDF 160KB)
ANTHONY RICCIARDI AND HUGH MACISAAC
Ecological Applications; 18: 1321-1323, 2008
In Retrospect: The book that began invasion ecology (PDF 84KB)
ANTHONY RICCIARDI AND HUGH MACISAAC
Nature; 452: 34, March 6, 2008
Efficacy of Open-Ocean Ballast Water Exchange as a Means of Preventing Invertebrate Invasions Between Freshwater Ports (PDF 1.1MB)
D. GREY, T. JOHENGEN, D. REID, AND H. MACISAAC
Limnology and Oceanography; vol. 52, No 6, pp. 2386-2397, 2007
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