Microbes encompass tremendous biodiversity, provide support to all living forms, including
humans, and play an important role in many ecosystem services. The rules that govern …

Biofilm formation in bacteria is considered to be one strategy to avoid protozoan grazing.
However, this assumption is largely based on experiments with suspension-feeding …

Spatial fragmentation is a near-ubiquitous characteristic of marine canopies. Biophysical
interactions with fragmented canopies are multi-faceted and have many significant …

Effluents from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) containing microorganisms and
residual nutrients can influence the biofilm formation. Although the process and mechanism …

Commercial production of nanoparticles (NP) has created a need for research to support
regulation of nanotechnology. In the current study, microbial biofilm communities were …

Wastewater recycling and sludge removal in the paper industry account for about 60% of all
process costs. New and environmentally friendly wastewater treatment techniques are …

Activated sludge is a semi-natural habitat composed of macroaggregates made by
flocculating bacteria and inhabited by numerous protozoans and metazoans, creating a …

Periphytic ciliate communities of riverine floodplains have hardly been studied, although
they play an important role in aquatic food webs and contribute to the overall ecosystem …

Bacterivorous ciliates play important roles in the functioning of activated sludge by reducing
dispersed bacteria and enhancing flocculation. There are, however, no data on the …

The Earth's subsurface represents a complex electrochemical environment that contains
many electro-active chemical compounds that are relevant for a wide array of biologically …