Monitoring Artificial Materials and Microbes in Marine Ecosystems: Interactions and Assessment Methods

Toshiyuki Takahashi

• Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9789811437236
• eBook ISBN:
  9789811437250
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Marine Biology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Marine ecosystems offer several benefits to human communities. To make sustainable use of these benefits, it is necessary to elucidate and conserve marine ecology, and strive to maintain a sustainable natural resource management program. For this reason, understanding the diversity and behavior of both macro-ecosystems and micro-ecosystems are crucial. Monitoring Artificial Materials and Microbes in Marine Ecosystems explores microbial roles and their interaction with artificial materials in marine environments. After starting with simple topics for beginners, chapters explore methods to detect microorganisms in marine ecosystems and interactions of marine organisms with artificial materials. The sequential progression into advanced topics makes it easier to understand how to solve the reduction in marine-ecosystem viability caused by adverse events. Readers are provided with useful information for rehabilitating marine environments to make them sustainable for communities. Topics are covered in 3 parts: Part 1 is an introductory guide to marine ecosystems and environmental monitoring assessment. Readers are introduced to coral reef ecosystems, algal blooms and the role of environmental monitoring services in maintaining and restoring the quality of marine environments. This is followed by examples of sustainable marine environment assessment.Part 2 provides information about methods to detect microorganisms (viruses and bacteria) and evaluate marine environments. This includes sample enrichment methods, electrochemical analysis, and single cell imaging techniques. The highly sensitive and specific techniques presented in the book, are applicable in a wide variety of situations.Part 3 is dedicated to interactions between artificial metallic materials and microorganisms in marine environments. Chapters in this section share results from several experiments conducted to separate microorganisms and biofilms from such environments. This book is intended primarily for marine ecologists, microbiologists, environmental engineers, and engineers associated with industrial projects. This book is also useful as a text for undergraduate and graduate level courses in marine biology, ecology, and microbiology.

Table of contents

• Welcome
• Table of Content
• Title
• BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS LTD.
• PREFACE
• Part 1: Marine Ecosystem and Environmental Monitoring
• List of Contributors
• Coral Reef Ecosystems in Marine Environments
• Marine Polymers as Ecofriendly Alternatives to Petroleum-Based Plastics
• Application of Marine Polymers for Seagrass Bed Restoration and Marine Ecosystem Services Preservation
• Relationship between Algal Blooms and Marine-Ecosystem Services
• Some Background on Conventional Environmental Evaluations
• Examples of Sustainable Marine Environmental Assessments
• A Sequence Between Microfouling and Macrofouling in Marine Biofouling
• Part 2: Fundamentals to Detect and Evaluate Microorganisms and Pathogenic Viruses from Seawater Environments
• Introduction to Methods for Collection, Detection, and Evaluation of Microbes
• A Membrane-Free Alternative Method for Concentration of Live Microorganisms by Foam Separation
• A Novel Method Using a Potential-Controlled Electrode for Screening Difficult-to-Cultivate Microorganisms
• Isolation of Vanadium-Accumulating or -Reducing Bacteria from Ascidians and Their Functional Analysis
• Electrochemical Detection of Microorganisms Using an Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance
• In-situ Observation of Biofilms in Physiological Salt Water by Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy
• Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting (FACS)-Based Characterization of Microalgae
• Single-Cell Imaging and Sequencing-Based Detection of Microorganisms Using Highly Sensitive Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (FISH)
• Part 3: Interaction Analysis between Artificial Materials and Micro/Macro-Organisms in Marine Environments
• Biofilm on Materials’ Surfaces in Marine Environments
• Effect of Metallic Nanoparticle-Dispersed Silane-Based Polymer Coatings on Anti-Biofilm Formation
• Chemical Characteristics of Steelmaking Slag in Aqueous Environments
• Utilization of Steelmaking Slag in Sea Areas
• Elution of Rehabilitation Material Made from Steelmaking Slag for Coastal Environments
• Effects of Eluate Components from Steelmaking Slag on Microalgae
• Development of Regeneration Technology for a Seaweed Bed