Dr. Maitham A. Al-Shaheen & Rehab N. Al-Saedy published a paper entitled Tolerance of Benthic Diatoms to Severe Environmental Stress: A

Case Study in Shatt Al-Arab River, Basrah, Iraq

in the Biological and Applied Environmental Research (BAER), which is indexed in globally database. the study aims to investigating the ability of diatoms to reestablish their community after a severe environmental stress such desiccation. Diatoms were subjected to extreme environmental stress to observe their survival capability.