{"refrec":{"BRefID":436702,"RR":"<b>Ndaba, J.; Cotiyane-Pondo, P.; Human, L.; Puccinelli, E.; Pieterse, P.P.; Pattrick, P.; Porri, F.</b> (2025). Diatom colonisation and biofilm metal bioaccumulation: Can Indigenous Knowledge Systems aid the ecological engineering of urban coastlines? <i>Ecol. Eng. 219</i>: 107696. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2025.107696\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2025.107696</a>","BEntID":434532,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":0,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":0,"RefStringPartII":" <i>Ecol. Eng. 219</i>: 107696. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2025.107696\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2025.107696</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":0,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Ndaba, J.; Cotiyane-Pondo, P.; Human, L.; Puccinelli, E.; Pieterse, P.P.; Pattrick, P.; Porri, F.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Ndaba, J. <i>et al.</i>","Englishabstract":"<span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\">Marine engineered structures alter the coastal ecosystems' functionality, replacing natural substrates with flat surfaces, often negatively impacting biodiversity. While providing coastal protection, artificial structures can hinder the initial colonisation by biofilm and the recruitment of coastal species. Greening the grey infrastructure through nature-based interventions is increasingly used to enhance biodiversity in artificial structures. This study explores the potential of the </span><a href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/cyperaceae\"><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\">sedge</span></a><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\"> </span><a href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/cyperus\"><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\"><i>Cyperus</i></span></a><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\"><i> textilis</i> and its Indigenous Knowledge applications as a substrate for coastal eco-engineering at an urbanised site on the southeast coast of </span><a href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/republic-of-south-africa\"><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\">South Africa</span></a><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\">. Diatom succession and metal </span><a href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/bioaccumulation\"><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\">bioaccumulation</span></a><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\"> on the deployed trial-version designs (</span><i>imizi</i><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\"> structures) were monitored for a month, with samples collected at six, twelve, twenty-four, seventy-two hours, one and two weeks, and one month after deployment. Water quality, including dissolved nutrients and </span><a href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/metal-concentrations\"><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\">metal concentrations</span></a><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\">, were assessed near the substrates. Findings indicated that diatom colonisation occurred within twelve hours, with initial species including </span><a href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/fragilaria\"><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\"><i>Fragilaria</i></span></a><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\"><i> </i></span><a href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/pulchella\"><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\"><i>pulchella</i></span></a><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\">, </span><i>Neofragilaria nicobarica</i><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\">, </span><a href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/navicula\"><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\"><i>Navicula</i></span></a><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\"> sp. and </span><i>Grammatophora undulata</i><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\">, followed by a significant increase (4.6 times) in </span><a href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/species-diversity\"><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\">species diversity</span></a><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\"> from 5 to 23 diatoms after one week. Metal bioaccumulation of aluminium, iron, zinc, manganese and arsenic was higher in the biofilm developing on the substrate compared to its surrounding environment (</span><i>imizi</i><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\"> substrate and water), suggesting the potential bioremediating capabilities of the biofilm on the nature-based material. These findings indicate the potential suitability of using Indigenous Knowledge-based materials for coastal eco-engineering practices as promoters of primary productivity, with the added potential of the plant </span><i>C. textilis</i><span style=\"color:rgb(31,31,31);\"> for bioremediation of toxic metals such as arsenic.</span>","AbstractOtherLang":null,"BibLvlCode":"AS","StandardTitle":"Diatom colonisation and biofilm metal bioaccumulation: Can Indigenous Knowledge Systems aid the ecological engineering of urban coastlines?","OrigTitleLangCode":"en","OrigTitleLangCodeExtended":"eng","OrigTitleLangID":15,"DateLastModified":{"date":"2026-04-21 01:33:41.757755","timezone_type":1,"timezone":"+02:00"},"UserAccessRight":null,"UserAccID":null,"AuthorKeywords":"<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">Coastal bioremediation; Nature-based material; Coastal restoration; Primary productivity; Microphytobenthos","OtherDescriptors":null,"Notes":null,"AnaPub":2025,"MonPub":null,"DateUpdate":"2025-12-17","DateCreate":"2025-12-17","SecASFANote":null,"ConfID":null,"PeerRev":1,"VlizCoreFlag":1,"WoScode":null,"VABBcode":null,"OpenAcc":1,"DOI":"10.1016/j.ecoleng.2025.107696"},"refs":null,"anarec":{"AnaID":436702,"PubliDate":2025,"Pagination":"107696","XtraPublOfAnaID":null,"ISBN":null,"Volume":"219","Issue":null,"BRefMon":null,"BRefMonRR":null,"BRefXtra":null,"BRefXtraRR":null,"SerBRefID":56951,"SerRR":"Ecological Engineering. Elsevier: Amsterdam; London; New York; Tokyo.  ISSN 0925-8574; e-ISSN 1872-6992","StandardTitleSer":"Ecological Engineering","ISSN":"0925-8574","AbbrevSer":"Ecol. Eng.","StandardTitleMon":null,"StartPage":null,"Pages":null,"ToPubliDate":null,"BRefBibLvlCode":"S","SerNotes":null},"monrec":null,"serrec":null,"relations":null,"relationsRev":null,"addrec":null,"othpubs":null,"ownerships":null,"authors":[{"AutName":"Ndaba","Firstname":"Jabulani","Initials":"J.","Affiliation":null,"Discriminator":null,"CorporateFlag":0,"BEntID":434532,"AutID":573756,"OrderNr":1,"DegrID":null,"EditorFlag":0,"CorrespFlag":0,"IllustratorFlag":0,"ReviserFlag":0,"TranslatorFlag":0,"InsAcronym":null,"InsFSN":null,"ORCID":null,"PersID":null,"InsID":null},{"AutName":"Cotiyane-Pondo","Firstname":"P.","Initials":"P.","Affiliation":null,"Discriminator":null,"CorporateFlag":0,"BEntID":434532,"AutID":613190,"OrderNr":2,"DegrID":null,"EditorFlag":0,"CorrespFlag":0,"IllustratorFlag":0,"ReviserFlag":0,"TranslatorFlag":0,"InsAcronym":null,"InsFSN":null,"ORCID":null,"PersID":null,"InsID":null},{"AutName":"Human","Firstname":"L.","Initials":"L.","Affiliation":null,"Discriminator":null,"CorporateFlag":0,"BEntID":434532,"AutID":613191,"OrderNr":3,"DegrID":null,"EditorFlag":0,"CorrespFlag":0,"IllustratorFlag":0,"ReviserFlag":0,"TranslatorFlag":0,"InsAcronym":null,"InsFSN":null,"ORCID":null,"PersID":null,"InsID":null},{"AutName":"Puccinelli","Firstname":"Eleonora","Initials":"E.","Affiliation":"COS","Discriminator":null,"CorporateFlag":0,"BEntID":434532,"AutID":613192,"OrderNr":4,"DegrID":null,"EditorFlag":0,"CorrespFlag":0,"IllustratorFlag":0,"ReviserFlag":0,"TranslatorFlag":0,"InsAcronym":"NIOZ","InsFSN":"Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee","ORCID":null,"PersID":46138,"InsID":397},{"AutName":"Pieterse","Firstname":"Petrus Philippus","Initials":"P.P.","Affiliation":null,"Discriminator":null,"CorporateFlag":0,"BEntID":434532,"AutID":573755,"OrderNr":5,"DegrID":null,"EditorFlag":0,"CorrespFlag":0,"IllustratorFlag":0,"ReviserFlag":0,"TranslatorFlag":0,"InsAcronym":null,"InsFSN":null,"ORCID":null,"PersID":null,"InsID":null},{"AutName":"Pattrick","Firstname":"Paula","Initials":"P.","Affiliation":"Rhodes Univ, Dept Zool & Entomol, Grahamstown, South Africa.","Discriminator":null,"CorporateFlag":0,"BEntID":434532,"AutID":561101,"OrderNr":6,"DegrID":null,"EditorFlag":0,"CorrespFlag":0,"IllustratorFlag":0,"ReviserFlag":0,"TranslatorFlag":0,"InsAcronym":null,"InsFSN":null,"ORCID":null,"PersID":null,"InsID":null},{"AutName":"Porri","Firstname":"Francesca","Initials":"F.","Affiliation":null,"Discriminator":null,"CorporateFlag":0,"BEntID":434532,"AutID":202924,"OrderNr":7,"DegrID":null,"EditorFlag":0,"CorrespFlag":0,"IllustratorFlag":0,"ReviserFlag":0,"TranslatorFlag":0,"InsAcronym":null,"InsFSN":null,"ORCID":null,"PersID":null,"InsID":null}],"mapdetails":null,"datasets":null,"monographs":null,"monparts":null,"serparts":null,"BEntOpen":434532,"BEntPrivate":null,"availability":[{"BInstID":418483,"LibID":2779,"BRefID":436702,"EmbargoDate":null,"FullEmbargoDate":null,"PhysMedID":16,"hasOCRd":1,"ShelfLocCode":"418483","RFID":null,"PaidValue":null,"Medium":"Server","Description":null,"Acronym":null,"Library":"NIOZ","DutchTerm":null,"URL":null,"ClassifID":260,"Classification":"NIOZ Open Repository","ReqLink":null,"ClassifTypID":1,"URLLocation":"https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/","SubDir":1,"InternalReq":null,"LoggedInReq":null,"Disclaimer":"Disclaimer_NIOZ","DutchDisclaimer":null,"FileFormat":".pdf","FileDescr":"pdf","InsPub":1,"InsID":397,"FileFormID":6,"LendableFlag":null,"PublicFlag":1,"orderLib":"NIOZ","Notes":null,"AccConID":21,"AccessConstraint":"Attribution (CC BY)","LicURL":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"}],"litstyles":null,"thespers":null,"arch2discl":805,"SERpubls":[{"PublName":"Elsevier","City":"Amsterdam; London; New York; Tokyo"}],"MONpubls":null,"pictures":[],"thestermsPath":null,"thestermsASFA":null,"taxtermsASFA":null,"geotermsASFA":null,"collections":null,"conf":null,"proj":null,"Physdatasets":null,"spcols":{"805":{"SpName":"Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee","SpColID":805,"ParSpColID":null,"TopParID":null,"ShortName":"NIOZ","URLLocation":"https://www.vliz.be/imis/nioz/imis.php?refid=","LibID":2779,"OpenRepoFlag":1,"SpTypID":1,"TopParIDNotWebsite":null,"SpColPath":"NIOZ"}},"doi":null,"publs":null,"serparttypes":null,"monauthors":null,"MParts":null,"SParts":null,"hLibs":null,"langs":[{"BEntID":434532,"AbstractFlag":0,"LangID":15,"LangCode":"en","Lang":"English","DutchTerm":"Engels","LangCodeExtended":"eng"},{"BEntID":434532,"AbstractFlag":1,"LangID":15,"LangCode":"en","Lang":"English","DutchTerm":"Engels","LangCodeExtended":"eng"}],"urls":[{"URL":"https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2025.107696","externalID":"10.1016/j.ecoleng.2025.107696","URLTypeCode":"DOI","URLID":155037,"URLTypID":13,"URLType":"DOI","URLPrefix":"http://dx.doi.org/"}],"thesterms":null,"taxterms":null,"geoterms":null,"othterms":null,"asfacodes":null,"asfa2codes":null,"thestermsFRIS":null,"taxtermsFRIS":null,"geotermsFRIS":null,"othtermsFRIS":null,"resmessage":"","complete":1,"sessions":{"newSesName":"daan.van.loon@nioz.nl","newSesDate":{"date":"2025-12-17 10:00:24.450000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Europe/Brussels"},"updSesName":"daan.van.loon@nioz.nl","updSesDate":{"date":"2025-12-17 10:00:24.450000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Europe/Brussels"}}}