The biomass and nutrient and heavy metal content of cattails and reeds in wastewater treatment wetlands for the production of construction material in Estonia

Desalination

Volumn 246, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 120-128

  Maddison, Martin ^a   Soosaar, Kaido ^a   Mauring, Tõnu ^a   Mander, Ülo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Cattail; Constructed wetland; Reed; Use of raw material; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; CATTAIL; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; DRY WEIGHT; ESTONIA; HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATION; HEAVY METAL CONTENTS; LATIFOLIA; NATURAL TREATMENT; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; PHYTOMASS; REED; SEMI-NATURAL WETLAND; TYPHA LATIFOLIA; USE OF RAW MATERIAL; VEGETATION PERIODS; WATER SURFACE;

BIOMASS; BUILDING MATERIALS; CADMIUM; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); HEAVY WATER; LEAD; LEAD REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); METAL RECOVERY; METALS; NUTRIENTS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WETLANDS; ZINC;

WATER RECYCLING;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMASS; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; HEAVY METAL; NUTRIENT; PHYTOMASS; PLANT; REEDBED; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE;

PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; TYPHA; TYPHA LATIFOLIA;

EID: 68349160606     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2008.02.040     Document Type: Article

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