Retention of wastewater-borne nitrogen and phosphorus in mangrove soils

Environmental Technology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 851-859

  Tam, N F Y ^a   Wong, Y S ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Mangrove soil; Nutrients; Retention; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORUS; SOILS; WASTEWATER;

ARTIFICIAL SEAWATER; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COLUMN LEACHING EXPERIMENTS; MANGROVE SOILS; NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS; PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; RETENTION; SYNTHETIC WASTE WATER;

SOIL POLLUTION;

AMMONIA; INORGANIC SALT; NITRATE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HONG KONG; LEACHING; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PLANT; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SOIL POLLUTION; WASTE WATER;

EID: 0029740231     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593331708616453     Document Type: Article

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