Despite being low-resource environments, sandy beaches can contain diverse bacterial assemblages. In this study we examined the spatial heterogeneity of bacterial communities in sand on a beach on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, USA. 16S ribosomal RNA ge...
Tropical sandy beaches are dynamic ecosystems where microbial communities play crucial roles in biogeochemical processes and tracking human impact. Despite their importance, these habitats remain underexplored. Here, using amplicon-based sequencing o...
Coastal sands harbor diverse microbial assemblages that play a critical role in the biogeochemical cycling of beach ecosystems. However, little is known about the relative importance of the different ecological processes underlying the assembly of co...
Cupressus gigantea is an endangered species mainly distributed on beach land, down-slope, and middle-slope positions along the Yarlung Zangbo River on the Tibet Plateau of China, with an altitude ranging from 3000 to 3400 m. We investigated the rhizo...
Beach safety regulation is based on faecal indicators in water, leaving out sand and fungi, whose presence in both matrices has often been reported. To study the abundance, diversity and possible fluctuations of mycobiota, fungi from sand and seawate...
Monitoring microbial water quality at recreational beaches is essential to safeguard public health, with fecal coliforms serving as key indicators of contamination. This study applies machine learning (ML) techniques to predict fecal coliform concent...
Seaweed is a valuable natural resource, but drift or beach-cast seaweed is considered a waste product. Although seaweed is traditionally used as an organic amendment, vermicomposting has the potential to transform the material into valuable organic f...
Bioturbating animals move around large amounts of sediment, changing its physicochemical properties and biogeochemical processes. The present study assessed the role of the ghost shrimp Lepidophthalmus louisianensis, a major coastal bioturbator in th...
Dalian Jinshitan beach was chosen to evaluate the impact of a typhoon on the bacterial community structure and water quality of a marine bathing beach. The concentration of enterococci was determined by the cultivation method. The bacterial community...
Exposure to antibiotic-resistant microbial communities in coastal waters is an important threat to human health. Through a ten-year coastal time series, we used metagenomics from 236 time points to provide a comprehensive understanding of the seawate...
Soil proteinase and proteinase-producing microbial community are closely associated with soil fertility and soil health. Sea rice has been planted in the coastal beach of Jiaozhou Bay, China, in an effort to transform saline-alkali soil into arable l...
We investigated the presence of the fecal indicator bacteria Escherichia coli, and other taxa associated with sewage communities in coastal sediments, near beaches with reported poor bathing water quality, focusing on the influence of effluent from a...
9 July 2015
This manuscript evaluates the U.S. Recreational Water Quality Criteria (RWQC) of 2012, based upon discussions during a conference held 11–13 March 2013, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The RWQC of 2012 did not meet expectations among the research community bec...
The spread of fecal pollutants and antibiotic resistance in the aquatic environment represents a major public health concern and is predicted to increase in light of climate change consequences and the increasing human population pressure on the lago...
The occurrence and spread of antibiotic resistance have become a pressing global health concern. Understanding the genetic elements that facilitate the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in marine environments is crucial for effectiv...
The Vibrio bacteria known to cause infections to humans and wildlife have been largely overlooked in coastal environments affected by beach wrack accumulations from seaweed or seagrasses. This study presents findings on the presence and distribution...
29 December 2022
The Tijuana River watershed is binational, flowing from Tijuana, Mexico into San Diego and Imperial Beach, USA. Aging sewage and stormwater infrastructure in Tijuana has not kept pace with population growth, causing overflows into this watershed duri...
Microbial communities and dissolved organic matter (DOM) are intrinsically linked within the global carbon cycle. Demonstrating this link on a molecular level is hampered by the complexity of both counterparts. We have now investigated this connectio...
This review synthesizes the literature on the degradation and decomposition of holopelagic Sargassum, with a focus on process dynamics, including microbial contribution, process descriptions, and ecological impacts. Our objective is to consolidate a...
Balanced fear supports human rational decision-making and useful behavioral responses. In contrast, overwhelming, persistent, and unbalanced fear can paralyze the individual and result in heightened anxiety, lack of cognitive flexibility, fear-based...
Bioremediation is one of the promising environment-friendly approaches to eliminate oil contamination. However, heavy oil is known to degrade slowly due to its hydrophobicity. Therefore, microorganisms capable of producing biosurfactants are gaining...