The Significance of Marine Bacteria in the Fouling of Submerged Surfaces

ZoBell, Claude E.; Allen, Esther C.

doi:10.1128/jb.29.3.239-251.1935

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“…Most important are the fact that many bacteria tend to adhere firmly to sand and soil particles, and that continued shaking in water apparently kills some. The periphytic propensities of marine bacteria ( ZoBell & Allen 1933, Hotchkiss & Waksman 1936 are probably more pronounced than those of freshwater bacteria. Even if there were a really accurate method to determine numbers of bacteria per gram of beach sand, it would have a limited value because of fiuctuation in numbers in response to ever-changing conditions.…”

Section: Bacterial Populationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Ecology of Sand Beaches at Beaufort, N. C.

Pearse¹,

Humm²,

Wharton³

1942

Ecological Monographs

155

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Section: Bacterial Populationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Ecology of Sand Beaches at Beaufort, N. C.

Pearse¹,

Humm²,

Wharton³

1942

Ecological Monographs

155

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“…In open-water environments, the structured biofilm communities and the secretion of EPS are a microbial adaption for ocean systems (Decho & Gutierrez, 2017). Besides biofouling (e.g., Barton et al, 2008;Delauney et al, 2010;Kerr et al, 1998;Metosh-Dickey et al, 2004;Zobell & Allen, 1935), biofilms are significantly highlighted for their influences on ecosystem health such as food web support (e.g., Saint-Béat et al, 2014), carbon and nutrient cycling (e.g., Ziegler & Lyon, 2010), photosynthetic activities (e.g., Lefebvre et al, 2011), or in determining the fate of pollutants (e.g., Quigg et al, 2016). These environmental impacts are related to the dynamics of biofilm-associated cohesive aggregates.…”

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An Approach to Modeling Biofilm Growth During the Flocculation of Suspended Cohesive Sediments

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The floc size distribution (FSD) is crucial to predict cohesive sediment dynamics in aquatic environments. Recently, increasing attention has been given to biofilm effects on the FSDs of suspended particles since the presence of biofilms on particle surfaces may lead to larger flocs and thus higher settling velocities. In this study, results from a settling column experiment conducted by Tang and Maggi (2018; https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JG004165) under nutrient‐free and biomass‐free, nutrient‐affected and biomass‐free, and nutrient‐affected and biomass‐affected conditions, with different suspended sediment concentrations, shear rates, and nutrient concentrations, have been used to validate modeled FSDs that is based on the population balance equation solved by the quadrature method of moments. In addition to the processes of aggregation and breakage, the effects of biofilm are expressed in the growth term of the population balance equation. The logistic growth pattern is used to account for an increase in biomass, which is primarily controlled by the specific growth rate and the carrying capacity. In this study, the biofilm growth rate is assumed nutrient dependent, and the carrying capacity of floc size is hypothesized to be proportional to the Kolmogorov microscale. With eight size classes to interpret a simulated FSD, the predicted and observed FSDs exhibit a reasonable match for all nutrient‐free and biomass‐free, nutrient‐affected and biomass‐free, and nutrient‐affected and biomass‐affected conditions. This simplified bioflocculation model fills the gap between the simulations of the FSDs of cohesive sediments without and with biofilms and has the potential to be included in large‐scale models in the future.

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“…The pioneer of microbiology, the French scientist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), observed and sketched aggregates of bacteria as the cause of wine becoming acetic (Pasteur, 1864), which led to his discovery of pasteurization. Pasteur worked on the 'Fermentation ac etique 1861-66, The term 'film', which refers to bacterial adhesion, aggregation and multiplication on surfaces, was used in marine microbiology to distinguish adhering (sessile) bacteria from free swimming 'planktonic' bacteria as early as 1933 (Henrici, 1933;ZoBell & Allen, 1935; Fig. 3), but Angst (1922) had already reported that slime on the bottom of ships was caused to a large extent by bacteria (Angst, 1922) when biofouling occurred on surfaces.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…. ' (ZoBell & Allen, 1935). They found that 'ordinarily it requires two to four hours for appreciable numbers of bacteria to become attached solidly to glass slides .…”

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A personal history of research on microbial biofilms and biofilm infections

Høiby

2014

Pathogens Disease

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The observation of aggregated microorganisms surrounded by a self-produced matrix adhering to surfaces or located in tissues or secretions is as old as microbiology, with both Leeuwenhoek and Pasteur describing the phenomenon. In environmental and technical microbiology, biofilms were already shown 80-90 years ago to be important for biofouling on submerged surfaces, e.g. ships. The concept of biofilm infections and their importance in medicine is, however, < 40 years old and was started by Jendresen's observations of acquired dental pellicles and my own observations of heaps of Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells in sputum and lung tissue from chronically infected cystic fibrosis patients. The term biofilm was introduced into medicine in 1985 by Costerton. In the following decades, it became obvious that biofilm infections are widespread in medicine, and their importance is now generally accepted.

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The Significance of Marine Bacteria in the Fouling of Submerged Surfaces

Cited by 286 publications

References 3 publications

Ecology of Sand Beaches at Beaufort, N. C.

Ecology of Sand Beaches at Beaufort, N. C.

An Approach to Modeling Biofilm Growth During the Flocculation of Suspended Cohesive Sediments

A personal history of research on microbial biofilms and biofilm infections

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