The integrated constructed wetlands (ICW) concept

Wetlands

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 337-354

  Scholz, Miklas ^a   Harrington, Rory ^b   Carroll, Paul ^c   Mustafa, Atif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b National Parks and Wildlife Service Ireland   (Ireland)

^c Waterford County Council   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Aspect ratio; Constructed wetlands; Design guidelines; Farmyard runoff; Ground water; Ireland; Molybdate reactive phosphorous; Principal component analysis; Self organizing map; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ASPECT; BIODIVERSITY; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FREE SURFACE FLOW; GROUNDWATER; GUIDELINE; RUNOFF; WATER TREATMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 36849069368     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2007)27[337:TICWIC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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