Efficiency of a subsurface constructed wetland system using native southwestern U.S. plants

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 225-231

  Maschinski, Joyce ^a   Southam, Gordon ^b   Hines, Jeff ^b   Strohmeyer, Scott ^a  

^a Arboretum at Flagstaff   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLIFORM BACTERIA; DENITRIFICATION; NITRATES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER CONSERVATION; WETLANDS;

SUBSURFACE CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS;

EFFLUENT TREATMENT;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DENITRIFICATION; NITRIFICATION; PLANT; POLLUTANT; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032960910     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq1999.00472425002800010027x     Document Type: Article

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