Monika Bright's Lab

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University of Vienna

Piran

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The wooden cubes were covered with bryozoans ...

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and diverse sea squirts and anemone

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Work in and out of the water in front of the Marine Biology Institute in Piran

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This is the BORG in about 4 m depth in front of the institute. Also here we recovered three wooden and one plastic cube.

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Another successful recovery

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collection of cubes, water and sediment

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Wood eating creatures Wood gets degraded by bacteria and fungi but also by animals. While shipworms live in symbiosis with wood degrading, nitrogen fixing bacteria, some isopods and amphipods can digest wood without the help of symbionts. After sampling the wooden cubes we took pictures of all surfaces. The surface of this wooden plate was covered by hydozoans and algae. Only from the inside the occurrence of many shipworms became apparent.

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