Meiobenthology is the science of the tiny animals that live in huge numbers in all aquatic
sediments. This fully revised and enlarged second edition emphasizes new discoveries and …

Most microbial species remain uncultivated, and modifying artificial nutrient media brings
only an incremental increase in cultivability. We reasoned that an alternative way to cultivate …

Coastal sands filter and accumulate organic and inorganic materials from the terrestrial and
marine environment, and thus provide a high diversity of microbial niches. Sands of …

Aims: To determine the persistence of the faecal indicator organism Escherichia coli in
recreational coastal water and sediment using laboratory‐based microcosms and validation …

Bacterial abundance is a fundamental measure in microbiology, but its assessment is often
tedious, especially for soil, and sediment samples. To overcome this limitation, we adopted a …

We measured the abundance and biovolume of bacteria in intertidal sediments from Tokyo
Bay, Japan, by using a dual-staining technique (4′, 6-diamidino-2-phenylindole and …

Aims: To identify the most efficient techniques for the separation of micro‐organisms from
coastal sediments and, using these techniques, to determine the concentration of faecal …

We introduce a near-real-time optical imaging method that works via the detection of the
intrinsic fluorescence of life forms upon excitation by deep-UV (DUV) illumination. A DUV (< …

The structure of a benthic microbial food web and its seasonal changes were studied in the
shallow brackish waters of the island of Hiddensee, northeastern Germany, at two sites in …

Shallow lakes are common across the Arctic landscape and their ecosystem productivity is
often dominated by benthic, cyanobacterial biofilms. Many of these water bodies freeze to …