Microtopography enhances nitrogen cycling and removal in created mitigation wetlands

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1398-1406

  Wolf, Kristin L ^a,b   Ahn, Changwoo ^a   Noe, Gregory B ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonification; Created mitigation wetlands; Denitrification potential; Microtopography; Nitrification; Nitrogen mineralization

Indexed keywords

AMMONIFICATION; CREATED MITIGATION WETLANDS; DENITRIFICATION POTENTIAL; MICRO TOPOGRAPHY; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DENITRIFICATION; HYDROLOGY; ION EXCHANGE; MINERALOGY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL; OXIDATION; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION;

WETLANDS;

AMMONIFICATION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLOODING; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; ION EXCHANGE; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIC CONDITIONS; PIEDMONT; RELIEF; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL SURFACE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TORTUOSITY; TUSSOCK GRASSLAND;

UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 79959964826     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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