Question and answer.
Which organisms, freshwater or marine are more involved in improving water quality?
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2014/01/question-and-answer.html
See the answer(s) at
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Which_organisms_freshwater_or_marine_are_more_involved_in_improving_water_quality
The freshwater and marine ecosystems are far from being identical.
A series of papers (see the links at the end of this answer) developed
a new vision of how biodiversity helps towards better stability and water quality, in other words, how biodiversity is involved in the ecosystem services. In these papers, the fundamentals of a new conceptualization and synthetic theory of the multi-functional role of aquatic organisms in water self-purification, in improvement of water quality were formulated:
Key papers:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/60659939/;
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52627327/2H469p203-Polyfunctional-role-w-Addendum; http://www.scribd.com/doc/48099028/;