A5043629012- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
- Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
- Heavy metals in environment
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Chromium effects and bioremediation
- Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Arsenic contamination and mitigation
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Plant responses to water stress
- Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
- Gut microbiota and health
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Iron oxide chemistry and applications
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
Technical University of Crete
2014-2025
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
2019
University of Crete
2019
Hasselt University
2016-2018
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2013
The durability of plastics in the marine environment has emerged as a crucial environmental issue. However, contribution several factors and threshold point after which plastic product generates secondary micro- nanoplastics is still unclear. To investigate interaction parameters with physicochemical properties polyethylene (PE) polypropylene (PP) films environment, polyolefin were subjected to weathering emulated coastal environments for 12 months, focusing on relationship between radiation...
A microcosm experiment was conducted at two phases in order to investigate the ability of indigenous consortia alone or bioaugmented degrade weathered polystyrene (PS) films under simulated marine conditions. Viable populations were developed on PS surfaces a time dependent way towards convergent biofilm communities, enriched with hydrocarbon and xenobiotics degradation genes. Members Alphaproteobacteria Gammaproteobacteria highly acclimated plastic associated assemblages while abundance...
This work sheds light on the physicochemical changes of naturally weathered polymer surfaces along with buoyancy due to biofilm formation and degradation processes. To support hypothesis, a microcosm experiment was conducted where mixture plastic pieces incubated an indigenous pelagic community. A series analyses were employed in order describe alteration characteristics (FTIR, SEC GPC, sinking velocity) as well community (NGS). At end phase II, fraction double bonds surface microbially...
This study investigated the potential of bacterial-mediated polyethylene (PE) degradation in a two-phase microcosm experiment. During phase I, naturally weathered PE films were incubated for 6 months with indigenous marine community alone as well bioaugmented strains able to grow minimal medium linear low-density (LLDPE) sole carbon source. At end I developed biofilm was harvested and re-inoculated films. Bacteria from both treatments establish an active population on surfaces time dependent...
This study investigated the potential of indigenous endophytic bacteria to improve efficiency wetland helophyte Juncus acutus deal with a mixed pollution consisting emerging organic contaminants and metals. The beneficial effect bioaugmentation selected was more prominent in case high contamination: most inoculated plants (especially those culture) removed higher percentages organics metals from liquid phase shorter times compared non-inoculated without exhibiting significant oxidative...
Plants and their associated bacteria play a crucial role in constructed wetlands. In this study, the impact of different levels pollution bioaugmentation with indigenous strains individually or consortia was investigated on composition endophytic microbial communities Juncus acutus. Five treatments were examined compared where wetland plant exposed to increasing metal (Zn, Ni, Cd) emerging pollutants (BPA, SMX, CIP), enriched combinations single mixed strains. High had negative effect alpha...
Concern regarding the pollution of marine environment with plastics has been rising in recent years. Plastic waste residing and interacting fragments into secondary particles micro- nanoscale, whose negative impacts on are even greater than those parent items. In this work, high density polyethylene (HDPE) low (LDPE) microplastics were produced by irradiation virgin films following mechanical fragmentation. The size ranging from 250 μm to 2 mm selected for subsequent microcosm experiments....
The phytoremediation potential of the halophytic plant, Tamarix smyrnensis (T. smyrnensis), was examined in toxic metal spoils assisted by biochar and irrigation air nanobubbles. substrate (spoil) used present study derived from areas close to laterite (Ni-containing ores) mines. efficiency addition two rates (5 t/ha 20 t/ha) improve microbial properties stabilize soil aggregates also examined. Furthermore, effect with air-nanobubble-supplemented water evaluated for remediation spoils....
Abstract BACKGROUND Emerging organic contaminants include a large group of compounds that are frequently detected in wastewater along with heavy metals, due to incomplete removal or limitations conventional and advanced treatment processes. In this work, the efficiency Juncus acutus L. on mixed contamination; ciprofloxacin ( CIP ), sulfamethoxazole SMX bisphenol A BPA ) metals (chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), cadmium (Cd) zinc (Zn)), was investigated hydroponic experiment order evaluate its...
The microbiome associated with plants used in phytodepuration systems can boost plant growth and services, especially ecosystems dealing recalcitrant compounds, hardly removed via traditional wastewater (WW) treatments, such as azo-dyes textile industry. In this context, we aimed to study the cultivable selected by Phragmites australis a Constructed Wetland (CW) Morocco, order obtain candidate inoculants for of azo-dye contaminated WW. A collection 152 rhizospheric endophytic bacteria was...
Examination of sampled material and review the relevant literature revealed presence 299 benthic 46 pelagic amphipod species from Aegean Sea. Two identified, Caprella hirsuta Mayer, 1890 Apohyale crassipes (Heller, 1866), are recorded for first time in Sea Levantine Basin respectively. A checklist Mediterranean amphipods is given, as well their distribution territorial areas Black The faunal comparison showed that number decreases west to east. In terms zoogeographical categories...
Antimony (Sb) is considered to be a toxic metalloid of increasing prevalence in the environment. Although several phytoremediation studies have been conducted, research regarding mechanisms Sb accumulation and translocation within plants remains limited. In this study, soil from shooting range was collected spiked with an initial Sb(III) concentration 50 mg/kg. A pot experiment conducted investigate whether Nerium oleander could accumulate root further translocate it aboveground tissue....
Abstract Background Antimony (Sb) is considered a priority pollutant and its removal from the environment of great importance. Among various treatments, phytoremediation an efficient method when accumulation this metalloid in plant tissues sufficiently high. This work focused on Sb(III) aqueous solution at two Sb concentrations (5 10 ppm) using salt as stressor (100 mmol L −1 ) only lowest concentration ppm). The response salt‐tolerant species – Tamarix smyrnensis Nerium oleander was...