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- Introduction
- Our sampling sites
- Bacterial diversity and structure of biofilms
- Key bacteria for biofilm formation
- Nutritional quality of biofilms
- Protozoa in stream biofilms
- Biofilms and stream restoration
- Bacterial community index development
- Results and data
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Biofilms and stream restoration.
As we explain in the all about biofilms section, stream biofilms play key roles in primary production, cycling of nutrients, water quality remediation, suspended sediment removal, and energy flow to higher tropic levels within a stream ecosystem. Understanding the process and implication of change in these biofilms is therefore critical to stream restoration attempts.
The aim of this part of the project is to establish the nature and magnitude of biofilm response to specific controlled changes in stream conditions—specifically, light, flow, dissolved organic carbon, and stormwater derived contaminants. By specifically testing the response of stream biofilms to those different stream conditions, we will then try to help developing restoration strategies.
Our recommendations on stream restoration are described in our report Microbial biofilms and Stream Restoration. This report is available in hard copy, please contact us for more details.
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Contact us
Stream Biofilm Research Group
School of Biological Sciences
The University of Auckland
3a Symonds Street
Auckland, New Zealand
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streambiofilm
gmail.com
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