Bioaugmentation
The term bioaugmentation is a strategy of renaturation ecology and describes the introduction of microorganisms as starter cultures into soil material. The bacteria and other organisms act as the basis for growing a culture medium. The aim is to stimulate an inanimate soil to metabolize using a detergent and the medium water.
The process is used for the renovation and cleaning of floors. The impurities can be of various toxic nature.
Bio- augmentation is also known to aquarists : Traditionally, a portion of sludge from a retracted tank is given into a freshly set one; in the sludge contained microorganisms and their spores are used as starter cultures for the colonization of new aquarium for more rapid achievement of equilibrium. Today such starter cultures are commercially available as liquid preparations.
literature
- Andrea Leeson, Bruce C. Alleman, Pedro JJ Alvarez, Victor S. Magar (Eds.): Bioaugmentation, biobarriers, and biogeochemistry: the Sixth International In Situ and On-Site Bioremediation Symposium. San Diego, California, June 4-7, Battelle Press 2001, Volume 6, ISBN 1574771108 .
- Donald Lee Wise (Ed.): Bioremediation of contaminated soils. CRC Press, 2000, ISBN 0824703332 .