Floating vegetated mats for improving surface water quality

Emerging Environmental Technologies

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 211-244

  Hubbard, Robert K ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST WATERSHED RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal wastewater lagoons; Floating vegetated mats; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Surface water bodies; Water quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551615290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3352-9_9     Document Type: Chapter

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