An evaluation of two tracers in surface-flow wetlands: Rhodamine-WT and lithium

Wetlands

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 8-25

  Dierberg, Forrest E ^a   DeBusk, Thomas A ^a  

^a DB Environmental Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Dispersion; Hydraulic retention time; Lithium chloride; Mesocosms; Method of moments; Photolysis; Rhodamine WT; Submerged aquatic vegetation; Tanks in series; Tracer recovery; Treatment wetlands; Wetland dispersion number; Zero order kinetics

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MESOCOSM; PHOTOLYSIS; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; WETLAND;

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EID: 20544470660     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2005)025[0008:AEOTTI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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