ABSTRACT

The main mechanism of transport of motile foulers, including bacteria, toward hard substrates is the current, since their swimming velocity is low. Yet locomotion also may play a certain role in this process (see Section 3.2). Motile bacteria, as well as other microfoulers, are to some extent selective toward the substrates on which they settle, being attracted to one of them and repelled from others (e.g., Gromov and Pavlenko, 1989).