Databases

Ballast Water: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
http://invasions.si.edu/NBIC/ballast.html

United States Geological Survey: Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) Information Resource
http://nas.er.usgs.gov/

International Nonindigenous Species Database Network
http://www.nisbase.org/nisbase/index.jsp

ANS Examples

Zebra Mussel

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(Dreissena polymorpha)

Zebra mussels have disrupted the traditional aquatic food chains of many inland lakes. Their voracious filter feeding depletes the availability of microscopic organisms that play a critical part in each lake’s ecological food web.