Microbial community assembly in engineered bioreactors

SK Smith, JE Weaver, JJ Ducoste - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Microbial community assembly (MCA) processes that shape microbial communities in
environments are being used to analyze engineered bioreactors such as activated sludge …

Influence of seasonality, wastewater treatment plant process, geographical location and environmental parameters on bacterial community selection in activated …

MP Thobejane, N van Blerk, PJ Welz - Environmental Research, 2023 - Elsevier
This is the first comprehensive study that focusses on the correlation between the bacterial
community composition and a range of previously identified selective criteria in activated …

Profiling pathogenic protozoan and their functional pathways in wastewater using 18S rRNA and shotgun metagenomics

NP Mthethwa-Hlongwa, ID Amoah, A Gomez… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite extensive research, little is known about the composition of eukaryotic protists in
environmental samples. This is due to low parasite concentrations, the complexity of …

Anthropogenic original DOM is a critical factor affecting LNA bacterial community assembly

H Zhang, X Zhou, Z Li, M Bartlam, Y Wang - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
We investigated the geographical and environmental distance–decay relationships for both
of the two bacteria in the Haihe River, Tianjin, China. HNA bacteria exhibited a stronger …

Performance evaluation and microbial dynamics of submerged anaerobic membrane bioreactors for municipal wastewater treatment

F Yilmaz, EG Özbayram, NA Perendeci… - Journal of Water …, 2024 - Elsevier
It is challenging to treat municipal wastewater anaerobically and gain energy to provide an
economically sustainable process. In this study, the municipal wastewater treatment …

Ammonium oxidizing bacterial populations in South African activated sludge wastewater treatment plants

PJ Welz, MP Thobejane… - Water Environment …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This is the first study that describes ammonium oxidizing bacterial populations and
correlations of these populations with a range of criteria in activated sludge wastewater …