Components of floating emergent macrophyte treatment wetlands influencing removal of stormwater pollutants

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 474-486

  Tanner, Chris C ^a,b   Headley, Tom R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aquatic macrophytes; Constructed wetlands; Copper; Ecotechnology; Floating treatment wetlands; Metals; Nutrients; Phosphorus; Stormwater retention ponds; Suspended solids; Turbidity; Urban drainage; Wetland treatment; Zinc

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC MACROPHYTES; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; ECOTECHNOLOGY; FLOATING TREATMENT WETLANDS; STORMWATER RETENTION; SUSPENDED SOLIDS; URBAN DRAINAGE; WETLAND TREATMENT;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOFILMS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL SPECIATION; COPPER; DISSOLUTION; FLOCCULATION; LAKES; METALS; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; SOILS; SORPTION; STORM SEWERS; TURBIDITY; WETLANDS; ZINC;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

AQUATIC PLANT; BIOFILM; BIOREMEDIATION; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; COPPER; MACROPHYTE; MESOCOSM; NUTRIENT; PHOSPHORUS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SORPTION; STORMWATER; SUSPENDED LOAD; SUSTAINABILITY; TURBIDITY; URBAN DRAINAGE; WASTE TREATMENT; WATER LEVEL; ZINC;

EID: 79551616696     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2010.12.012     Document Type: Article

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