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Bibliography & Sources

References

The Institute publishes nothing it cannot source. Every quantitative or mechanistic claim across these guides traces to one of the works below — peer-reviewed microbiology, government water-quality criteria, university extension literature, and standard texts in aquaculture and limnology.

On the use of sources

Citations appear in the guides as superscripts, e.g. [1]. Where a claim depends on conditions (pH, temperature, species), the cited source sets those conditions out in full; the guides summarise, they do not embellish.

Nitrification & the nitrogen cycle

  1. Hovanec, T. A., Taylor, L. T., Blakis, A., & DeLong, E. F. (1998). Nitrospira-like bacteria associated with nitrite oxidation in freshwater aquaria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 64(1), 258–264. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.64.1.258-264.1998. Free full text (PMC).
  2. Burrell, P. C., Phalen, C. M., & Hovanec, T. A. (2001). Identification of bacteria responsible for ammonia oxidation in freshwater aquaria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 67(12), 5791–5800. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.12.5791-5800.2001. Free full text (PMC).
  3. Hovanec, T. A., & DeLong, E. F. (1996). Comparative analysis of nitrifying bacteria associated with freshwater and marine aquaria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 62(8), 2888–2896. DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.8.2888-2896.1996. Free full text (PMC).

Ammonia & nitrite toxicity

  1. Francis-Floyd, R., Watson, C., Petty, D., & Pouder, D. B. (rev. 2022). Ammonia in aquatic systems. UF/IFAS Extension, document FA16 (FA031). edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/FA031.
  2. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2013). Aquatic life ambient water quality criteria for ammonia — freshwater 2013. Office of Water, EPA-822-R-18-002. epa.gov/wqc/aquatic-life-criteria-ammonia.
  3. Durborow, R. M., Crosby, D. M., & Brunson, M. W. (1997). Nitrite in fish ponds. Southern Regional Aquaculture Center (SRAC), Publication No. 462. PDF (Texas A&M AgriLife).

Water exchange, filtration & water quality

  1. Stone, N., Shelton, J. L., Haggard, B. E., & Thomforde, H. K. Interpretation of water analysis reports for fish culture. Southern Regional Aquaculture Center (SRAC), Publication No. 4606. srac.msstate.edu.
  2. Timmons, M. B., & Ebeling, J. M. (2010). Recirculating aquaculture (2nd ed.). Cayuga Aqua Ventures, Ithaca, NY. ISBN 978-0-9712646-2-5. WorldCat record.
  3. Boyd, C. E. (2020). Water quality: an introduction (3rd ed.). Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23335-8. Springer record.

Algae & limnology

  1. Wetzel, R. G. (2001). Limnology: lake and river ecosystems (3rd ed.). Academic Press, San Diego. ISBN 978-0-08-057439-4. Publisher record.

Fish health, stress & quarantine

  1. Francis-Floyd, R. Stress — its role in fish disease. UF/IFAS Extension, Circular 919 (FA005). edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/FA005.
  2. Francis-Floyd, R., Stilwell, N. K., & Yanong, R. P. Introduction to fish health management. UF/IFAS Extension, Circular 921 (FA004). edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/FA004.
  3. Noga, E. J. (2010). Fish disease: diagnosis and treatment (2nd ed.). Wiley-Blackwell, Ames, IA. ISBN 978-0-8138-0697-6. Wiley record.

pH, alkalinity & hardness

  1. Reisinger, A. J., Albertin, A., Bean, E., Smyth, A., & Wilson, P. C. Water quality notes: pH. UF/IFAS Extension, document SL328 (SS538). edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/SS538.
  2. Reisinger, A. J., Albertin, A., Bean, E., Smyth, A., & Wilson, P. C. Water quality notes: alkalinity and hardness. UF/IFAS Extension, document SL332 (SS540). edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/SS540.

Texts marked with a publisher or WorldCat record are copyrighted works without free public full text; the Institute links to the catalogue record rather than to any unauthorised copy. Extension documents and the cited journal articles are openly available at the links given.