Environmental parameters and microbial community profiles as indication towards microbial activities and diversity in aquaponic system compartments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An aquaponic system couples cultivation of plants and fish in the same aqueous medium. The system consists of interconnected compartments for fish rearing and plant production, as well as for water filtration, with all compartments hosting diverse microbial communities, which interact within the system. Due to the design, function and operation mode of the individual compartments, each of them exhibits unique biotic and abiotic conditions. Elucidating how these conditions shape microbial communities is useful in understanding how these compartments may affect the quality of the water, in which plants and fish are cultured.

Results

We investigated the possible relationships between microbial communities from biofilms and water quality parameters in different compar

SUBMITTER: Schmautz Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7789318 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature