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Distribution Of The Aquaponics Microbiome And Their Division Of Labor, Nathan Melo, Jacob Corney
Distribution Of The Aquaponics Microbiome And Their Division Of Labor, Nathan Melo, Jacob Corney
Thinking Matters Symposium Archive
Farming practices have always been labor intensive and required a great deal of resources including space, nutrients, heavy equipment, and a great deal care. Hydroponics sought to remedy this with its space saving, small scale-high yield strategy. However, this brought problems of a more sensitive system that requires constant testing and regulation of chemicals and minerals. The addition of an organic fertilizer from fish and filtration system comprised of a community of microbes reduces the taxing rituals of aquaponics and recategorizes the system as Aquaponics. In aquaponics, the plants receive their nitrogen from a the ammonia produced by fish in …
Diversity Of Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria In A Sample Aquaponics Ecosystem, Joshua Trombley, Haley Depner
Diversity Of Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria In A Sample Aquaponics Ecosystem, Joshua Trombley, Haley Depner
Thinking Matters Symposium Archive
In natural ecosystems, nitrogen-fixing bacteria act as the primary source of useable nitrogen for many plants by converting atmospheric N2 into ammonia. In an aquaponics system, however, the primary source of ammonia is provided by fish waste. We are investigating the effect of this ammonia saturation on the diversity of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in a sample aquaponics system. We seek to answer two fundamental questions: First, what nitrogen fixing microbes are present in these systems? Second, does the character of these microbial communities have any effect on plant growth? In order to answer these questions, we first determine whether nitrogen-fixing bacteria …