Engineering of bio-mimetic substratum topographies for enhanced early colonization of filamentous algae.
This work reveals a set of surface topography parameters that are significant for algal attachment to natural rock substrata.Topography analysis of Rocking Chair rock surfaces from a stream identifies three descriptive areal parameters (Smr, Sv, and Sa) that correlate with the presence of natural periphyton community.A method was developed and vali