Water quality problems and potential for wetlands as treatment systems in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Wetlands

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1125-1132

  Li, Xiuzhen ^a   Mander, Ülo ^b   Ma, Zhigang ^a   Jia, Yue ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Ecological engineering; Eutrophication; Red tide; Shanghai; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; ECONOMIC GROWTH; EUTROPHICATION; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; PADDY FIELD; POLLUTION CONTROL; RECYCLING; RUNOFF; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

CHINA; YANGTZE DELTA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 72449188171     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/08-205.1     Document Type: Article

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