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Chapter and Conference Paper
Use of Biosurfactants in Bioremediation of Petroleum-Contaminated Soil
The objective of this research was to use biosurfactant-producing bacteria in bioremediation of oil-contaminated soil. Two approaches were studied. Biostimulation with the addition of crude biosurfactants extr...
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Chapter
Physiological and Molecular Aspects of Retrieving Environmental Stress in Plants by Microbial Interactions
Environmental stress is the foremost limiting factor for agricultural productivity. It is essential to alleviate the distress caused by environmental and edaphic conditions in plants, failing to which would af...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Remediation Treatments and Economic Assessment of Oil Residual Sludge from the Bottom of Tunisian Refinery Crude Oil Storage Tanks
The residual sludge from the bottom of refinery crude oil storage tanks causes major environmental and societal problems in Tunisia. Due to its high viscosity, it must be removed from the storage tanks in orde...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination in the Sediment of the Bizerte Lagoon in Northern Tunisia
Metals concentrations, Geoaccumulation index (Igeo), Factor contamination (CF) and degree of contamination (DC) were used to assess heavy metals contamination in Bizerte lagoon sediments. The highest metal con...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Development of Risk-Based, Soil and Groundwater Screening Values (Threshold Values) for Petroleum Hydrocarbon (PHC) in Libya and Tunisia by Considering Climate and Regional “Geographical” Factors
Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contamination (PHC) is a widespread environmental problem that can be found in many countries. Several contaminated land management approaches have been developed so far, all of which inc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Adapted Entity Summarization Service for an Enhancement Video System
Knowledge bases’ field has known a huge development these last years. It represents the interest of several types of systems, such as intelligent systems, search engines and several other applications. In some...
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Article
Validation of an Adapted QuEChERS Method for the Simultaneous Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Organochlorine Pesticides in Sediment by Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry
A Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged and Safe (QuEChERS) method has been adapted and validated for the simultaneous analysis of 16 PAHs, 12 PCBs and 9 OCPs in sediment. The sample preparation was adapted by...
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Article
Pesticides in Ichkeul Lake–Bizerta Lagoon Watershed in Tunisia: use, occurrence, and effects on bacteria and free-living marine nematodes
This study aimed to identify the most commonly used agricultural pesticides around Ichkeul Lake–Bizerta Lagoon watershed. First survey of pesticide use on agricultural watershed was performed with farmers, Reg...
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Article
Changes of benthic bacteria and meiofauna assemblages during bio-treatments of anthracene-contaminated sediments from Bizerta lagoon (Tunisia)
Sediments from Bizerta lagoon were used in an experimental microcosm setup involving three scenarios for the bioremediation of anthracene-polluted sediments, namely bioaugmentation, biostimulation, and a combi...
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Article
Responses of a free-living benthic marine nematode community to bioremediation of a PAH mixture
The objectives of this study were (1) to assess the responses of benthic nematodes to a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contamination and (2) to test bioremediation techniques for their efficiency in PAH...
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Article
Biostimulation as an attractive technique to reduce phenanthrene toxicity for meiofauna and bacteria in lagoon sediment
A microcosm experiment was setup to examine (1) the effect of phenanthrene contamination on meiofauna and bacteria communities and (2) the effects of different bioremediation strategies on phenanthrene degrada...
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Article
Impacts of bioremediation schemes for the mitigation of a low-dose anthracene contamination on free-living marine benthic nematodes
A microcosm experiment was used to examine (1) the effects of different bioremediation schemes on degradation of anthracene and the structure of free-living marine nematodes in a lightly contaminated (4.5 μg g−1)...
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Microbial community responses to bioremediation treatments for the mitigation of low-dose anthracene in marine coastal sediments of Bizerte lagoon (Tunisia)
The main goals of this study were to investigate (1) the behavior of microbial communities in response to low-dose bioavailable anthracene addition in lightly contaminated sediment from Bizerte Lagoon and (2) ...
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Bacterial Community Structure of Sediments of the Bizerte Lagoon (Tunisia), a Southern Mediterranean Coastal Anthropized Lagoon
In order to estimate how pollution affects the bacterial community structure and composition of sediments, chemical and molecular approaches were combined to investigate eight stations around the Bizerte lagoo...
