Establishment of a constructed wetland in extreme dryland

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 862-875

  Tencer, Yoram ^b   Idan, Gil ^b   Strom, Marjorie ^c   Nusinow, Uri ^d   Banet, Dorit ^d   Cohen, Eli ^e   Schröder, Peter ^f   Shelef, Oren ^a   Rachmilevitch, Shimon ^a   Soares, Ines ^a   Gross, Amit ^a   Golan Goldhirsh, Avi ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Kibbutz Neot Smadar   (Israel)

^c Kibbutz Samar   (Israel)

^d Kibbutz Ketura   (Israel)

^e Ayala Water and Ecology   (Israel)

^f INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Constructed wetland; Desert; Dryland; Environment; Plant stress; Wastewater; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DESERT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EUROPEAN UNION; EVAPORATION; FRUIT; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MONITORING SYSTEM; OUTFLOW; OXIDATION; POLLUTION CONTROL; RECYCLING; SEEPAGE; SEWAGE DISPOSAL; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISRAEL; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; SEWAGE; TIME; WATER POLLUTION; WETLAND;

CLIMATE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES; HUMANS; ISRAEL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION; WETLANDS;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

AVES; CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 70350712138     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-009-0232-3     Document Type: Article

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