Ratio of abundances of ciliates behavioral groups as an indicator of the treated wastewater impact on rivers.

A method for assessing the degree of impact of wastewater treatment plant discharge on receiving rivers was proposed, based on the structural indicators of the population of ciliated protozoa. It was shown that the ratio of attached, crawling and free-swimming forms in bottom sediments changes under...

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Main Authors: Roman Babko, Volodymyr Pliashechnyk, Jacek Zaburko, Yaroslav Danko, Tatiana Kuzmina, Joanna Czarnota, Joanna Szulżyk-Cieplak, Grzegorz Łagód
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275629