Optimising settlement tiles: The effects of surface texture and energy, orientation and deployment duration upon the fouling community
| العنوان: | Optimising settlement tiles: The effects of surface texture and energy, orientation and deployment duration upon the fouling community |
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| المؤلفون: | Stuart N Field, Martin D'a A Letissier, Jeremy C. Thomason, Patricia Ocampo Thomason |
| المصدر: | Biofouling. 18:293-304 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2002. |
| سنة النشر: | 2002 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Fouling, Settlement (structural), Ecology, Epoxy, Surface finish, Aquatic Science, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Texture (geology), Surface energy, Biofouling, visual_art, visual_art.visual_art_medium, Environmental science, Tile, Composite material, Water Science and Technology |
| الوصف: | The aim of this study was to produce a set of tiles for field studies on settlement and biofouling with carefully controlled surface characteristics and practical design, and test them under field conditions. Impressions of precisely defined surface textures were made in silicone. Double sided tiles in epoxy, polyester and silanised epoxy resins were cast from the impressions. Tile characteristics tested were texture (Ra = 0, 0.19, 0.62, 1.1, 2.2 mm), surface free energy (60, 52, 24 mN mm 2), and surface orientation (up, down, into, away). Tiles were deployed in the Red Sea for 4 and 7 months. Measures of community cover, dominance and richness were all significantly affected by each of the factors. The tiles proved durable and robust during the 7 month deployment with no observable changes in surface characteristics and none were lost or broken. These settlement tiles have a wide applicability for both biofouling and ecological studies. The field test demonstrated the complexities of the interactions bet... |
| تدمد: | 1029-2454 0892-7014 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0892701021000034409 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::df61460c364f16139e3703d33258548a https://doi.org/10.1080/0892701021000034409 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........df61460c364f16139e3703d33258548a |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 10292454 08927014 |
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| DOI: | 10.1080/0892701021000034409 |