@inbook {5882,
	title = {Microphytobenthic Biofilms: Composition and Interactions},
	booktitle = {Mudflat Ecology},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {63{\textendash}90},
	publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
	organization = {Springer International Publishing},
	address = {Cham},
	abstract = {<p>Microphytobenthic biofilms in mudflats are characterised by a wide variety of microorganisms and the production of large quantities of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). In this chapter, the diversity of microphytobenthos (MPB) is reviewed and the complex interactions that take place in mudflat biofilms between microalgae and bacteria are discussed. Microbial interaction in natural biofilms is an emerging field of study in mudflat ecosystems. Although emphasis is placed on EPS and EPS-mediated interactions, because they have received most of the research attention, more direct interactions such as communication and defence are also discussed. Most studies to date have dealt with monospecific or multispecific laboratory biofilms, and environmental studies are still very rare. The development of this field of study in mudflat ecosystems is clearly a major requirement in our understanding of the functioning of mudflat biofilms.</p>
},
	isbn = {978-3-319-99194-8},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-99194-8_4},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99194-8_4},
	author = {C{\'e}dric Hubas and Passarelli, C and Paterson, David M},
	editor = {Beninger, Peter G.}
}
@inbook {5883,
	title = {Mudflat Ecosystem Engineers and Services},
	booktitle = {Mudflat Ecology},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {243{\textendash}269},
	publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
	organization = {Springer International Publishing},
	address = {Cham},
	abstract = {<p>Ecosystem engineers play a fundamental role in the creation, maintenance and transformation of habitats in tidal flats. Highly diverse in terms of size, phylogeny, and effect on their environment, they can facilitate or hinder a number of organisms, but generally have a positive influence on both the abundance and the diversity of mudflat organisms. The magnitude of the engineering effect is, however, largely dependent on the biotic and abiotic environment of the engineer. In particular, stressful habitats such as mudflats host a large number of ecosystem engineers; understanding interactions between them, and how they vary with abiotic variables, is therefore of crucial importance, to evaluate how ecosystem engineers affect benthic communities and ecosystem functioning. Such understanding will also help human populations which benefit from mudflat organisms and/or functioning (i.e. which derive ecosystem services from them), to maintain and manage the sustainably of tidal flats, in a way which maintains human health and well-being.</p>
},
	isbn = {978-3-319-99194-8},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-99194-8_10},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99194-8_10},
	author = {Passarelli, C and C{\'e}dric Hubas and Paterson, David M},
	editor = {Beninger, Peter G.}
}
