Determining biota succession in a domestic wastewater pond system after treatment with a specific consortium microalgae.

ABSTRACT: Wastewater stabilization ponds (WSPs) rely on the metabolic activities of the inhabiting microbiota to treat wastewater. A selected consortium of Chlorella vulgaris and Chlorella protothecoides were used to manipulate the natural resident microalgae assemblage to improve the treatment performance of a domestic wastewater pond treatment system in a coastal region. Since information is lacking about the resulting influence on the composition or succession of the phytoplankton or associated microbiota assemblage, the current study aimed to determine how dosing with the microalgae C. vulgaris and C. protothecoides change the efficiency of wastewater effluent treatment, as well as the composition and succession of the natural occurring phytoplankton and microbial ass

SUBMITTER: van den Berg MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9672295 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature