In this paper Carlos, María Eugenia and Julián highlights that biodegradation of aromatics was successful despite the salinity increase (up to 29 g L−1) caused the loss of aerobic granulation. Also, they discussed about the facts that new aerobic granules were formed after addition of anaerobic granules and that microbial population changed with the increase of the salts concentration.
This work was supported by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia through the ONLYBIO project (CTQ2011-24745/PPQ) and by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona for giving a pre-doctoral fellowship to Carlos Ramos.