An experimental study on effects of submersed macrophytes on nitrification and denitrification in ammonium-rich aquatic systems

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1993-1999

  Eriksson, Peder G ^a   Weisner, Stefan E B ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DENITRIFICATION; DILUTION; NITRATE; NITRIFICATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SEDIMENT; SURFACE; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT;

DENITRIFICATION; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; HYDROCHEMISTRY; MACROPHYTE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; NITRIFICATION; RESERVOIR; SEDIMENT; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; WASTEWATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON; POTAMOGETON PECTINATUS; STUCKENIA PECTINATUS;

EID: 0032715846     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.8.1993     Document Type: Article

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