A critical overview of household slow sand filters for water treatment

BLS Freitas, UC Terin, NMN Fava, PMF Maciel… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Household, or point-of-use (POU), water treatments are effective alternatives to provide safe
drinking water in locations isolated from a water treatment and distribution network. The …

Biostabilization of cohesive sediments: revisiting the role of abiotic conditions, physiology and diversity of microbes, polymeric secretion, and biofilm architecture

SU Gerbersdorf, S Wieprecht - Geobiology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In aquatic habitats, micro‐organisms successfully adhere to and mediate particles, thus
changing the erosive response of fine sediments to hydrodynamic forcing by secreting glue …

A stress surveillance system based on calcium and nitric oxide in marine diatoms

A Vardi, F Formiggini, R Casotti, A De Martino… - PLoS …, 2006 - journals.plos.org
Diatoms are an important group of eukaryotic phytoplankton, responsible for about 20% of
global primary productivity. Study of the functional role of chemical signaling within …

Diatom/copepod interactions in plankton: the indirect chemical defense of unicellular algae

G Pohnert - ChemBioChem, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous coexisting species can be observed in the open oceans. This includes the
complex community of the plankton, which comprises all free floating organisms in the sea …

Marine chemical ecology

VJ Paul, MP Puglisi, R Ritson-Williams - Natural product reports, 2006 - pubs.rsc.org
Marine chemical ecology - Natural Product Reports (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/B404735B
Royal Society of Chemistry View PDF VersionPrevious ArticleNext Article DOI: 10.1039/B404735B …

Survey of the chemical defence potential of diatoms: screening of fifty species for α, β, γ, δ-unsaturated aldehydes

T Wichard, SA Poulet, C Halsband-Lenk… - Journal of chemical …, 2005 - Springer
In recent years a negative influence of diatom-derived α, β, γ, δ-unsaturated aldehydes
(PUA) on the reproductive success of copepods and invertebrates has been suggested …

Age and nutrient limitation enhance polyunsaturated aldehyde production in marine diatoms

F Ribalet, T Wichard, G Pohnert, A Ianora, A Miralto… - Phytochemistry, 2007 - Elsevier
Skeletonema marinoi produces 2, 4-heptadienal, 2, 4-octadienal, and 2, 4, 7-octatrienal, the
latter only in traces. In nutrient-replete cultures, the production of potentially defensive …

Growth inhibition of cultured marine phytoplankton by toxic algal-derived polyunsaturated aldehydes

F Ribalet, JA Berges, A Ianora, R Casotti - Aquatic toxicology, 2007 - Elsevier
Several marine diatoms produce polyunsaturated aldehydes (PUAs) that have been shown
to be toxic to a wide variety of model organisms, from bacteria to invertebrates. However …

The stabilisation potential of individual and mixed assemblages of natural bacteria and microalgae

HV Lubarsky, C Hubas, M Chocholek, F Larson… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
It is recognized that microorganisms inhabiting natural sediments significantly mediate the
erosive response of the bed (“ecosystem engineers”) through the secretion of naturally …

Allelopathic interactions between the bacillariophyte Skeletonema costatum and the raphidophyte Heterosigma akashiwo

Y Yamasaki, S Nagasoe, T Matsubara… - Marine Ecology …, 2007 - int-res.com
We investigated growth interactions between Skeletonema costatum (Greville) Cleve and
Heterosigma akashiwo (Hada) Hada ex Hara et Chihara using bi-algal cultures under …