Substratum‐Associated Microbiota

Abstract

This review of literature on substratumassociated microbiota from 2014 highlights topics on benthic algae and bacteria from a range of aquatic environments, but focuses on freshwater habitats. Advances in pollution and toxin detection, assessment methods, and applications of new technologies are highlighted as are updates in taxonomy and systematics. Aspects of general ecology, water quality, nutrient cycling, trophic interactions, land use changes, biofuels, biofouling, and environmental challenges such as climate change, pollutants, tar sands and fracking, oil spills and nuisance blooms are presented.

Substratum‐Associated Microbiota

“…The literature available on benthic microbiota is extensive, and continues to expand, especially with the addition of new print and on-line journals. Thus, similar to the 2014 literature on benthic microbiota (Furey and Liess, 2015), the coverage of articles from 2015 included here is neither exhaustive nor comprehensive; rather this survey includes brief highlights of findings from topics of current research interest or of relevance to the Water Environment Federation.…”