Effects and impacts of physical stress on entrained organisms.
Environmental studies of power plants have recently shiftedtheir emphasis from examination of the effects of heated discharges to studies of the impacts of entire cooling systems. One of the major impacts arises when planktonic organisms are carried into and through a plant with the cooling water. Because of their relatively immobile, free-floating character, planktonic organisms are highly vulnerable to being "entrained" or passively drawn into the cooling water condenser systems of power plants.More than 70% of estuarine animals have planktonic eggs andlarvae. The environmental impact of entrainment is related to the composition and abundance of affected organisms, the numbers of organisms in the adjacent waters, survival rates during entrainment as related to natural survival, the ecological roles of entrained organisms, and their reproductive strategies.
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| Format: | book_section biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Academic Press
1978
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| Subjects: | Management, Fisheries, Biology, Zooplankton, Ichthyoplankton, Phytoplankton, Biota Mortality, Cooling water, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/19817 |
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