References

1. Abdel-Raouf N, Al-Homaidan AA, Ibraheem IBM (2012) Microalgae and wastewater treatment. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences 19:257–275

2. Abomohra AE-F, El-Sheekh M, Hanelt D (2017) Screening of marine microalgae isolated from the hypersaline Bardawil lagoon for biodiesel feedstock. Renewable Energy 101:1266–1272

3. Aken HM van (2008) Variability of the water temperature in the western Wadden Sea on tidal to centennial time scales. Journal of Sea Research 60:227–234

4. Alabaster JS, Lloyd R (Richard), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (1984) Water quality criteria for freshwater fish. Published by arrangement with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations by Butterworths

5. APHA (2005) American Public Health Association. Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater. American Water Works Association. Water Environmental Federation.

6. Badarudeen A, Damodaran KT, Sajan K, Padmalal D (1996) Texture and geochemistry of the sediments of a tropical mangrove ecosystem, southwest coast of India. Environmental Geology 27:164–169

7. Balakrishnan S, Chelladurai G, Mohanraj J, Poongodi J (2017) Seasonal variations in physico-chemical characteristics of Tuticorin coastal waters, southeast coast of India. Applied Water Science 7:1881–1886

8. Barclay W, Johansen J, Chelf P, Nagle N, Roessler P, Institute) and PLS (Solar ER (2007) Microalgae Culture Collection 1986 - 1987.

9. Besse-Lototskaya A, Verdonschot PFM, Coste M, Vijver B Van de (2011) Evaluation of European diatom trophic indices. Ecological Indicators 11:456–467

10. Boominathan M, Chandran MDS, Ramachandra T V (2008) Economic Valuation of Bivalves in the Aghanashini Estuary, West Coast, Karnataka. 2008

11. Breuer F, Janz P, Farrelly E, Ebke P (2016) Seasonality of algal communities in small streams and ditches in temperate regions using delayed fluorescence. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 31:393–406

12. Chen Y-C (2012) The biomass and total lipid content and composition of twelve species of marine diatoms cultured under various environments. Food Chemistry 131:211–219

13. Chessman BC, Bate N, Gell PA, Newall P (2007) A diatom species index for bioassessment of Australian rivers. Marine and Freshwater Research 58:542

14. Chinnasamy S, Bhatnagar A, Claxton R, Das KC (2010) Biomass and bioenergy production potential of microalgae consortium in open and closed bioreactors using untreated carpet industry effluent as growth medium.

15. Chu W-L (2017) Strategies to enhance production of microalgal biomass and lipids for biofuel feedstock. European Journal of Phycology 52:419–437

16. Clerck O De, Guiry MD, Leliaert F, Samyn Y, Verbruggen H (2013) Algal taxonomy: a road to nowhere? Journal of Phycology 49:215–225

17. Cumming G (2013) Understanding The New Statistics. Routledge

18. D’Costa PM, Anil AC (2010) Diatom community dynamics in a tropical, monsoon-influenced environment: West coast of India. Continental Shelf Research 30:1324–1337

19. d’Ippolito G, Sardo A, Paris D, Vella FM, Adelfi MG, Botte P, Gallo C, Fontana A (2015) Potential of lipid metabolism in marine diatoms for biofuel production. Biotechnology for biofuels 8:28

20. D’Ippolito G, Tucci S, Cutignano A, Romano G, Cimino G, Miralto A, Fontana A (2004) The role of complex lipids in the synthesis of bioactive aldehydes of the marine diatom Skeletonema costatum. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids 1686:100–107

21. Dares (2004) 4 . Enumeration of Diatom Samples. Diatoms for Assessing River Ecological Status (DARES):1–13

22. Delgado C, Pardo I, García L (2012) Diatom communities as indicators of ecological status in Mediterranean temporary streams (Balearic Islands, Spain). Ecological Indicators 15:131–139

23. Demirtas H (2018) Handbook of Fitting Statistical Distributions with R. CRC Press

24. Desrosieres R (1969) Surface Macroplankton of the Pacific Ocean along the Equator. Limnology and Oceanography 14:626–632

25. Fatema K, Wan Maznah WO, Isa MM (2014) Spatial and Temporal Variation of Physico-chemical Parameters in the Merbok Estuary, Kedah, Malaysia. Tropical Life Sciences Research 25:1–19

26. Fields FJ, Kociolek JP (2015) An evolutionary perspective on selecting high-lipid-content diatoms (Bacillariophyta). Journal of Applied Phycology 27:2209–2220

27. Fore LS, Grafe C (2002) Using diatoms to assess the biological condition of large rivers in Idaho (U.S.A.). Freshwater Biology 47:2015–2037

28. Fu W, Wichuk K, Brynjólfsson S (2015) Developing diatoms for value-added products: challenges and opportunities. New Biotechnology 32:547–551

29. George B, Nirmal Kumar JI, Kumar RN (2012) Study on the influence of hydro-chemical parameters on phytoplankton distribution along Tapi estuarine area of Gulf of Khambhat, India. The Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research 38:157–170

30. Godhantaraman N (2002) Seasonal variations in species composition, abundance, biomass and estimated production rates of tintinnids at tropical estuarine and mangrove waters, Parangipettai, southeast coast of India. Journal of Marine Systems 36:161–171

31. Graham JM, Graham LE, Zulkifly SB, Pfleger BF, Hoover SW, Yoshitani J (2012) Freshwater diatoms as a source of lipids for biofuels. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology 39:419–428

32. Grobbelaar JU (2009) Factors governing algal growth in photobioreactors: The “open” versus “closed” debate. Journal of Applied Phycology 21:489–492

33. Hammer DAT, Ryan PD, Hammer Ø, Harper DAT (2001) Past: Paleontological Statistics Software Package for Education and Data Analysis.

34. Hausmann S, Charles DF, Gerritsen J, Belton TJ (2016) A diatom-based biological condition gradient (BCG) approach for assessing impairment and developing nutrient criteria for streams. Science of The Total Environment 562:914–927

35. Heurck H Van Van Heurck 1896 - A Treatise on the Diatomaceae. Translated by W.E. Baxter. | Citations - Diatoms of North America.

36. Hildebrand M, Davis AK, Smith SR, Traller JC, Abbriano R (2012) The place of diatoms in the biofuels industry. Biofuels 3:221–240

37. Huesemann MH, Wagenen J Van, Miller T, Chavis A, Hobbs S, Crowe B (2013) A screening model to predict microalgae biomass growth in photobioreactors and raceway ponds. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 110:1583–1594

38. Idris NA, Loh SK, Lau HLN, Yau TC, Mustafa EM, Vello V, Moi PS (2018) Palm oil mill effluent as algae cultivation medium for biodiesel production. Journal of Oil Palm Research

39. Juahir H, Zain SM, Yusoff MK, Hanidza TIT, Armi ASM, Toriman ME, Mokhtar M (2011) Spatial water quality assessment of Langat River Basin (Malaysia) using environmetric techniques. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 173:625–641

40. Kamyab H, Din MFM, Ghoshal SK, Lee CT, Keyvanfar A, Bavafa AA, Rezania S, Lim JS (2016) Chlorella Pyrenoidosa Mediated Lipid Production Using Malaysian Agricultural Wastewater: Effects of Photon and Carbon. Waste and Biomass Valorization

41. Karthick B, Hamilton PB (Paul B, Kociolek JP, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment. (2013) An illustrated guide to common diatoms of peninsular India. Gubbi Labs

42. Kelly MG, Whitton BA (1995) Trophic diatoms index – A new index for monitoring eutrophication in rivers. Journal of Applied Phycology 7:433–444

43. Krammer K and Bertolet H (1986) Krammer, K. and Lange-Bertalot, H. (1986) Bacillariophyceae. 1. Teil: Naviculaceae In: Ettl, H., J. Gerloff, H. Heynig and D. Mollenhauer (eds.) Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa, Band 2/1.

44. Krzywinski M, Altman N (2013) Significance, P values and t-tests. Nature Methods 10:1041–1042

45. Kumar TS (2008) Sewage / Effluent Treatment by Growth of Diatom Algae Current practices Problems of current practices. :1–7

46. La Peña MR De (2007) Cell growth and nutritive value of the tropical benthic diatom, Amphora sp., at varying levels of nutrients and light intensity, and different culture locations. In: Journal of Applied Phycology. Springer Verlag, p 647–655

47. Levinton JS (2017) Marine biology : function, biodiversity, ecology Fifth edition Publication Date - July 2017 ISBN: 9780190625276.

48. Levitan O, Dinamarca J, Hochman G, Falkowski PG (2014) Diatoms: a fossil fuel of the future. Trends in biotechnology 32:117–24

49. Linkins AE (1973) Uptake and Utilization of Glucose and Acetate by a Marine Chemoorganotrophic Diatom Nitzschia alba Clone Link 001, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

50. Liu A, Chen W, Zheng L, Song L (2011) Identification of high-lipid producers for biodiesel production from forty-three green algal isolates in China. Progress in Natural Science: Materials International 21:269–276

51. Madhu N V., Jyothibabu R, Balachandran KK, Honey UK, Martin GD, Vijay JG, Shiyas CA, Gupta GVM, Achuthankutty CT (2007) Monsoonal impact on planktonic standing stock and abundance in a tropical estuary (Cochin backwaters - India). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 73:54–64

52. Mahapatra DM, Chanakya HN, Ramachandra T V. (2014) Bioremediation and lipid synthesis through mixotrophic algal consortia in municipal wastewater. Bioresource Technology 168:142–150

53. Mann KH (2000) Ecology of Coastal Waters: With Implications For Management, 2nd Edition ISBN: 978-0-865-42550-7, Wiley-Blackwell Publications.

54. Marella TK, Parine NR, Tiwari A (2017) Potential of diatom consortium developed by nutrient enrichment for biodiesel production and simultaneous nutrient removal from waste water. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences

55. Martin GD, Nisha PA, Balachandran KK, Madhu N V., Nair M, Shaiju P, Joseph T, Srinivas K, Gupta GVM (2011) Eutrophication induced changes in benthic community structure of a flow-restricted tropical estuary (Cochin backwaters), India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 176:427–438

56. Martin GD, Vijay JG, Laluraj CM, Madhu NV, Joseph T, Nair M, Gupta GVM, Balachandran KK (2008) Fresh water influence on nutrient stoichiometry in a tropical estuary, Southwest coast of India.

57. Millero FJ (1986) The pH of estuarine waters. Limnology and Oceanography 31:839–847

58. Mitbavkar S, Anil AC (2008) Seasonal variations in the fouling diatom community structure from a monsoon influenced tropical estuary. Biofouling 24:415–426

59. Nabout, J.C., Nogueira, I.S., Oliveira, L.G. (2006) Phytoplankton community of flood plain lakes of the Araguaia River, Brazil, in the rainy and dry seasons. J Plankton Res:181–193.

60. Ouyang Y, Nkedi-Kizza P, Wu QT, Shinde D, Huang CH (2006) Assessment of seasonal variations in surface water quality. Water Research 40:3800–3810

61. Pan Y, Stevenson RJ, Hill BH, Herlihy AT, Collins GB (1996) Using Diatoms as Indicators of Ecological Conditions in Lotic Systems: A Regional Assessment. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 15:481–495

62. Patrick R and Reimer CW (1966) The Diatoms of the United States,” Vol. 1. Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 1, No. 13, 1966, pp. 1-688., The Diatom.

63. Potapova MG, Charles DF (2002) Benthic diatoms in USA rivers: distributions along spatial and environmental gradients. Journal of Biogeography 29:167–187

64. Potapova M, Charles DF (2007) Diatom metrics for monitoring eutrophication in rivers of the United States. Ecological Indicators 7:48–70

65. Prabu VA, Rajkumar M, Perumal P (2008) Seasonal variations in physico-chemical characteristics of Pichavaram mangroves, southeast coast of India. Journal of environmental biology 29:945–50

66. Ramachandra T V., Durga Madhab M, Shilpi S, Joshi N V. (2013) Algal biofuel from urban wastewater in India: Scope and challenges. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 21:767–777

67. Ramachandra T V., Mahapatra DM, B K, Gordon R (2009) Milking Diatoms for Sustainable Energy: Biochemical Engineering versus Gasoline-Secreting Diatom Solar Panels. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 48:8769–8788

68. Ramachandra T V., Mahapatra DM, Bhat SP, Joshi N V. (2015) Biofuel Production Along with Remediation of Sewage Water Through Algae. In: Algae and Environmental Sustainability. Springer India, New Delhi, p 33–51

69. Rath AR, Mitbavkar S, Anil AC (2018) Phytoplankton community structure in relation to environmental factors from the New Mangalore Port waters along the southwest coast of India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 190:481

70. Richardson TL, Gibson CE, Heaney SI (2000) Temperature, growth and seasonal succession of phytoplankton in Lake Baikal, Siberia. Freshwater Biology 44:431–440

71. Rimet F (2009) Benthic diatom assemblages and their correspondence with ecoregional classifications: case study of rivers in north-eastern France. Hydrobiologia 636:137–151

72. Round FE (1991) Diatoms in river water-monitoring studies. Journal of Applied Phycology 3:129–145

73. Satpathy KK, Mohanty AK, Natesan U, Prasad MVR, Sarkar SK (2010) Seasonal variation in physicochemical properties of coastal waters of Kalpakkam, east coast of India with special emphasis on nutrients. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 164:153–171

74. Schoeman FR (1972) A further contribution to the diatom flora of sewage enriched waters in southern Africa. Phycologia 11:239–245

75. Schoeman FR (1979) DIATOMS AS INDICATORS OF WATER QUALITY IN THE UPPER HENNOPS RIVER (Transvaal, South Africa). Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa 5:73–78

76. Scholz B, Liebezeit G (2013) Biochemical characterisation and fatty acid profiles of 25 benthic marine diatoms isolated from the Solthörn tidal flat (southern North Sea). Journal of Applied Phycology 25:453–465

77. Sforza E, Bertucco A, Morosinotto T, Giacometti GM (2012) Photobioreactors for microalgal growth and oil production with Nannochloropsis salina: From lab-scale experiments to large-scale design. Chemical Engineering Research and Design 90:1151–1158

78. Shah MR, Hossain MY, Begum M, Ahmed ZF, Ohtomi J, Rahman MM, Alam MJ, Islam MA, Fulanda B (2008) Seasonal Variations of Phytoplanktonic Community Structure and Production in Relation to Environmental Factors of the Southwest Coastal Waters of Bangladesh. Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 3:102–113

79. Sheehan J, Dunahay T, Benemann J, Roessler P (1978) A Look Back at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Aquatic Species Program: Biodiesel from Algae Close-Out Report.

80. Simonsen R (1968) RUTH PATRICK und CH. W. REIMER: The diatoms of the United States. Vol. I. Mono graphs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 13, xi + 688 pp., 64 Taf., Philadelphia, 1966, U.S. $6 18,50. Internationale Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie und Hydrographie 53:166–167

81. Soininen J, Eloranta P (2004) Benthic diatom community structure in boreal streams.

82. Stevenson RJ (1997) Scale-Dependent Determinants and Consequences of Benthic Algal Heterogeneity. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 16:248–262

83. Stevenson RJ, Bothwell ML (Max L., Lowe RL (1996) Algal ecology : freshwater benthic ecosystems. Academic Press

84. Sumich JL, Morrissey JF (John F (2004) Introduction to the biology of marine life. Jones and Bartlett Publishers

85. Tan X, Xia X, Zhao Q, Zhang Q (2014) Temporal variations of benthic diatom community and its main influencing factors in a subtropical river, China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 21:434–444

86. Tan X, Zhang Q, Burford MA, Sheldon F, Bunn SE (2017) Benthic Diatom Based Indices for Water Quality Assessment in Two Subtropical Streams. Frontiers in Microbiology 8:601

87. Tang H, Chen M, Simon Ng KY, Salley SO (2012) Continuous microalgae cultivation in a photobioreactor. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 109:2468–2474

88. Tang D, Han W, Li P, Miao X, Zhong J (2011) CO2 biofixation and fatty acid composition of Scenedesmus obliquus and Chlorella pyrenoidosa in response to different CO2 levels. Bioresource Technology 102:3071–3076

89. Taylor JC, Harding WR, Archibald CGM (2007) A methods manual for the collection, preparation and analysis of diatom samples.

90. Taylor JC, Prygiel J, Vosloo A, la Rey PA de, Rensburg L van (2007) Can diatom-based pollution indices be used for biomonitoring in South Africa? A case study of the Crocodile West and Marico water management area. Hydrobiologia 592:455–464

91. Townsend SA, Gell PA (2005) The Role of Substrate Type on Benthic Diatom Assemblages in the Daly and Roper Rivers of the Australian Wet/Dry Tropics. Hydrobiologia 548:101–115

92. Underwood GJC, Paterson DM (1993) Seasonal changes in diatom biomass, sediment stability and biogenic stabilization in the Severn Estuary. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 73:871

93. Venkatesan R, Vasagam KPK, Balasubramanian T (2006) Culture of Marine Microalgae in Shrimp Farm Discharge Water: A Sustainable Approach to Reduce the Cost Production and Recovery of Nutrients. Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 1:262–269

94. Vinayak V, Manoylov K, Gateau H, Blanckaert V, Hérault J, Pencréac’h G, Marchand J, Gordon R, Schoefs B (2015) Diatom Milking: A Review and New Approaches. Marine Drugs 13:2629–2665

95. Weilhoefer CL, Pan Y (2006) Diatom Assemblages and their Associations with Environmental Variables in Oregon Coast Range Streams, USA. Hydrobiologia 561:207–219

96. Werner D (1977) The Biology of diatoms. University of California Press

97. Widjaja A, Chien C-C, Ju Y-H (2009) Study of increasing lipid production from fresh water microalgae Chlorella vulgaris. Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers 40:13–20

98. Wiley P, Harris L, Reinsch S, Tozzi S, Embaye T, Clark K, McKuin B, Kolber Z, Adams R, Kagawa H, Richardson T-MJ, Malinowski J, Beal C, Claxton MA, Geiger E, Rask J, Campbell JE, Trent JD (2013) Microalgae Cultivation Using Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae (OMEGA). Journal of Sustainable Bioenergy Systems 03:18–32

99. Yin K (2002) Monsoonal influence on seasonal variations in nutrients and phytoplankton biomass in coastal waters of Hong Kong in the vicinity of the Pearl River estuary. Marine Ecology Progress Series

100. Yusuf C (2007) Biodiesel from microalgae. Biotechnology Advances 25:294–306

101. Zhao F in the TLC and BC of DS for PBP, Liang J, Gao Y, Luo Q, Yu Y, Chen C, Sun L (2016) Variations in the Total Lipid Content and Biological Characteristics of Diatom Species for Potential Biodiesel Production. Fundamentals of Renewable Energy and Applications 6:22–26