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Emilio Grande, Ate Visser, Pamela Beitz and Jean Moran
Water bodies in the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD), California, United States, provide aesthetic value and critical ecosystem services, but are often adversely affected by the activities and infrastructure of the intensely urban environment that...
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Hye-In Ho, Chae-Hong Park, Kyeong-Eun Yoo, Nan-Young Kim and Soon-Jin Hwang
Eutrophic freshwater ecosystems are vulnerable to toxin-producing cyanobacteria growth or harmful algal blooms. Cyanobacteria belonging to the Nostocales order form akinetes that are similar to the seeds of vascular plants, which are resting cells surrou...
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Fatemeh Parikhani, Ehsan Atazadeh, Jafar Razeghi, Mohammad Mosaferi and Maxim Kulikovskiy
This work is the first in a series, and its purpose is the comprehensive assessment of the ecological state of the Aras River using biological indicators of water quality by diatoms based on species? ecological preferences, pollution indices, statistics,...
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Loredana Stabili, Maria Immacolata Acquaviva, Ester Cecere, Carmela Gerardi, Antonella Petrocelli, Francesco Paolo Fanizzi, Federica Angilè and Lucia Rizzo
The lipidic extract of Undaria pinnatifida, one of the worst invasive species, was investigated for its potential exploitation in biotechnological applications. The antimicrobial activity of the lipidic extract in three different portions (blade, sporoph...
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Yuke Li, Yan Li, Hanfei Yang, Quan Hong, Guoyao Huang and Giri Kattel
As one of the world?s four Greater Bay Areas, the Guangdong?Hong Kong?Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) faces many environmental challenges along with rapid economic development, causing significant degradation of aquatic ecosystems. However, there is limited...
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Rasha Hamdy, Noha Elebiary, Faiza Abdel Naby, Jacopo Borghese, Mohamed Dorgham, Amira Hamdan and Luigi Musco
The complex mixture of anthropogenic pressure determines the impact on the marine biota, hampering the ecosystem?s functioning. The coast of Alexandria, Egypt, experiences multiple human pressure, including sewage discharge, engineering activities (urban...
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Srijoni Banerjee, Soumendu Dasgupta, Arnab Atta, Debabrata Das, Deen Dayal, Sumira Malik, Harshavardhan Kumar, Shristi Kishore, Sarvesh Rustagi and Abdulmajeed G. Almutary
Biofuel production is a renewable energy resource that is not only the most stabilized source of energy but also one of the sustainable alternatives to non-renewable-sourced fuels. Microalgal biomass is emerging as a third-generation biofuel owing to its...
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Alla Khosrovyan, Rima Avalyan, Anahit Atoyants, Evelina Aghajanyan, Lusine Hambaryan, Rouben Aroutiounian and Bardukh Gabrielyan
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are overgrowths of toxic strains of algae (diatoms, green) and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). While occurring naturally, human-induced environmental changes have resulted in more frequent occurrences of such blooms worldwid...
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Maria Hasnain, Neelma Munir, Zainul Abideen, Daniel Anthony Dias, Farheen Aslam and Roberto Mancinelli
Biofuel generation from algae can be increased by using nanotechnology. The present study emphasizes the use of silver nanoparticles on algae for algal fuel generation along with the impact of nanoparticles on biomass, metabolites and lipid profile. Silv...
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Gwang Soo Kim, Yeonghwa Gwon, Eun Ji Oh, Dongsu Kim, Jae Hyun Kwon and Young Do Kim
Increases in algal growth have been reported in rivers, reservoirs, and other water resources worldwide, including Korea. Algal overgrowth can result in algal bloom, which has several negative impacts, such as ecosystem degradation and economic losses. M...
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