Development and Architecture of Complex Environmental Biofilms

摘要: Slippery pebbles and rocks in creeks rivers are for many people the first encounter with environmental biofilms. However, most of them not aware their significance lotic systems even scientists neglected microbial ecology streams a long time (Leff, 1994). Complex biofilms quite different to pure culture or defined mixed Nevertheless, much progress has been made past using model order explore basic structural features biofilm processes e. g. (Lawrence, Korber et al., 1991;Moller, Sternberg 1998). complexity adds more than one level variety structure function nature. The natural is based on presence multitude bacterial species, coexistence wide range eucaryotic organisms, production extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) by both, procaryotic as well interaction dissolved, colloidal particulate compounds derived from environment.