Increasing trends in faecal pollution revealed over a decade in the central Adriatic Sea (Italy)

GM Quero, S Guicciardi, P Penna, G Catenacci… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Faecal contamination of the coastal sea poses widespread hazard to human and
environmental health and is predicted to rise in response to global change and human …

Impact of beach wrack on microorganisms associated with faecal pollution at the Baltic Sea Sandy beaches

G Kalvaitienė, M Bučas, D Vaičiūtė, A Balčiūnas… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigated whether higher quantities of faecal indicator bacteria (FIB) are in the areas
with red algae-dominated wrack compared to areas without it and if the birds are the primary …

Diverse sources of fecal contamination in macroalgae wrack-affected environment adjacent to river outflow along the Baltic Sea coast

G Kalvaitienė, RP Espinosa, D Vaičiūtė… - Environmental Pollution, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigated the dynamics of feces-associated microorganisms in areas with wrack
accumulation in the southeastern part of the Baltic Sea. Our study covered single-day (2021) …

Fecal bacteria contamination in the Adriatic Sea: Investigating environmental factors and modeling to manage recreational coastal waters

A Penna, M Marini, C Ferrarin, S Guicciardi, F Grilli… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study is based on assessing fecal indicator bacteria contamination along
meteorological, hydrological and physical-chemical variables after high rainy events during …

Microbiological indicators of the biofilms microparticles of quartz sand and polypropylene after short-term exposure in soil

N Tkachuk, L Zelena - Biofouling, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this study was to investigate dynamics of biofilm biomass on microparticles
of natural material quartz sand and the artificial material polypropylene (plastisphere) as …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced preparedness for drinking water emergency: Ensuring safe microbial quality with rapid microbial source tracking and E. coli methods

E Lancaster, J Lee - Environmental Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing occurrence of water main breaks attributed to aging water infrastructure and
other disaster-related events amplifies the risk of microbial contamination in drinking water …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity, Community Structure, and Antagonism of Endophytic Fungi from Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Mongolian Pine Trees

N Ren, L Wang, C You - Journal of Fungi, 2024 - mdpi.com
Diplodia tip blight, caused by Diplodia sapinea (= Sphaeropsis sapinea), are widely
distributed in Honghuaerji, Inner Mongolia, China, causing severe damage on natural …

[PDF][PDF] Environmental Advances

E Lancaster, J Lee - bioservices.se
The increasing occurrence of water main breaks attributed to aging water infrastructure and
other disasterrelated events amplifies the risk of microbial contamination in drinking water …