Trends in the use of protozoa in the assessment of wastewater treatment

A Nicolau, N Dias, M Mota, N Lima - Research in microbiology, 2001 - Elsevier
Increasing environmental pollution and the continuous development of new chemicals and
drugs has led to ever growing concern about the potential effects of these compounds …

Freshwater sediment toxicity bioassessment: rationale for species selection and test design

JP Giesy, RA Hoke - Journal of Great Lakes Research, 1989 - Elsevier
The rationale and conceptual basis for the use of sediment toxicity assays are discussed in
relationship to their use in sediment evaluations employing faunal surveys, toxicity assays …

A brief review of approaches using ciliated protists to assess aquatic ecosystem health

DH Lynn, GL Gilron - Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Health, 1992 - Springer
Ciliated protists are important components of marine and freshwater ecosystems. As such,
their usefulness as indicators of aquatic ecosystem health has been recognized. Two major …

Elucidating sludge characteristic, substrate transformation and microbial evolution in a two-sludge denitrifying phosphorus removal system under the impact of HRT

M Zhang, C Zhu, T Pan, Y Fan, Y Liu, C He… - Journal of environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Granule formation has been recognized as a promising biotechnology in denitrifying
phosphorus removal (DPR) systems by facilitating phosphorus accumulation organisms …

Ratio of abundances of ciliates behavioral groups as an indicator of the treated wastewater impact on rivers

R Babko, V Pliashechnyk, J Zaburko, Y Danko… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
A method for assessing the degree of impact of wastewater treatment plant discharge on
receiving rivers was proposed, based on the structural indicators of the population of ciliated …

Biomonitoring of coastal pollution status using protozoan communities with a modified PFU method

K Xu, JK Choi, EJ Yang, KC Lee, Y Lei - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2002 - Elsevier
Structural and functional parameters of protozoan communities were assessed as indicators
of water quality in Korean coastal waters in the summer of 2000. A modified polyurethane …

Recognition of protozoa and metazoa using image analysis tools, discriminant analysis, neural networks and decision trees

YP Ginoris, AL Amaral, A Nicolau, MAZ Coelho… - Analytica Chimica …, 2007 - Elsevier
Protozoa and metazoa are considered good indicators of the treatment quality in activated
sludge systems due to the fact that these organisms are fairly sensitive to physical, chemical …

Effects of atrazine on freshwater microbial communities

JR Pratt, NJ Bowers, BR Niederlehner… - Archives of Environmental …, 1988 - Springer
A multispecies toxicity test system using naturally derived microbial communities on
polyurethane foam substrates was used to evaluate the toxic effects of the herbicide …

The application of bioassays in the resolution of environmental problems; past, present and future

L Maltby, P Calow - … Techniques and their Application: Proceedings of the …, 1989 - Springer
Literature on bioassays for freshwater systems has been reviewed (between 1979 and
1987) and classified into studies concerned with prediction and assessment and, within …

Use of PFU protozoan community structural and functional characteristics in assessment of water quality in a large, highly polluted freshwater lake in China

M Xu, H Cao, P Xie, D Deng, W Feng… - Journal of Environmental …, 2005 - pubs.rsc.org
Structural and functional parameters of protozoan communities colonizing on PFU
(polyurethane foam unit) artificial substrate were assessed as indicators of water quality in …