date:Apr 08, 2014
Anyone that has spent time at a seaside pier has witnessed the destruction barnacles wreak on boat hulls. But biofouling animals are not limited to marine environments. A new paper published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment estimates that the global management of freshwater mussels, clams, and other clinging animals costs $277 million annually.
Biofoulers are organisms that accumulate underwater on hard surfaces, to the detriment of property and economically important act