Colonization and weathering of engineering materials by marine microorganisms: an SEM study

m Great Western Research and the Environment Agency (Science Project SC060096), and gratefully acknowledges additional support from the ENCORA Project and the British Society for Geomorphology. LGP acknowledges funding from the MCINN research project CGL2009-07392.

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