Modeling the impact of potential wetlands on phosphorus retention in a Swedish catchment

Ambio

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 544-551

  Tonderski, Karin S ^a   Arheimer, Berit ^b   Pers, Charlotta B ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; MODELING; PHOSPHORUS; WETLAND;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 28544435878     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-34.7.544     Document Type: Article

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30. This work was performed within the Swedish Water Management Research Program (VASTRA), which is financed by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA). The authors wish to thank Ekologgruppen AB and the Kävlinge and Höje Å projects for being most helpful in supplying data and for useful comments on the manuscript.