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International coverage for research mapping how animals and plants can hitch a ride on cargo ships

7 May 2013

Research by the universities of Bristol and Oldenburg, Germany, that has mapped how animals and plants can hitch a ride on cargo ships received international media coverage.

The most detailed forecast to date for importing potentially harmful invasive species with the ballast water of cargo ships has been mapped by Dr Michael Gastner in the Department of Engineering Mathematics and Professor Bernd Blasius and Hanno Seebens at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.  The research was covered by BBC news online, Wired, Environmental News Network, e! Science News, Fish information and services, Die Welt, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and Science Daily.

Full press release: Researchers calculate the global highways of invasive marine species

 

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