Seasonal effects of 19 plant species on COD removal in subsurface treatment wetland microcosms

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 703-710

  Taylor, Carrie R ^a   Hook, Paul B ^b   Stein, Otto R ^b   Zabinski, Cathy A ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Montana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical oxygen demand; Constructed wetland; Microbial; Root zone; Sulfate; Temperature

Indexed keywords

COD REMOVAL; COLD SEASON; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; CYPERACEAE; IN-CONTROL; LOW TEMPERATURES; MICROBIAL; MICROBIAL PROCESS; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PANICUM VIRGATUM; PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA; PLANT PERFORMANCE; PLANT SPECIES; POACEAE; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; ROOT ZONE; SEASONAL EFFECTS; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SEASONAL PERFORMANCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SULFATE; SULFATE CONCENTRATIONS; TREATMENT WETLANDS; WETLAND PLANTS;

ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; WASTEWATER; WETLANDS;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; GRASS; MICROCOSM; MONOCULTURE; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RHIZOSPHERE; SEASONALITY; SEDGE; SULFATE; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

CAREX NEBRASCENSIS; CAREX UTRICULATA; CYPERACEAE; IRIS MISSOURIENSIS; JUNCACEAE; LEYMUS CINEREUS; PANICUM VIRGATUM; PHALARIS; PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA; POACEAE;

EID: 79955628545     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2010.05.007     Document Type: Article

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