Biodiversity of constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1533-1545

  Hsu, Chorng Bin ^a   Hsieh, Hwey Lian ^b   Yang, Lei ^c   Wu, Sheng Hai ^a   Chang, Jui Sheng ^d   Hsiao, Shu Chuan ^a   Su, Hui Chen ^e   Yeh, Chao Hsien ^e   Ho, Yi Shen ^f   Lin, Hsing Juh ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d YU DA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f Wild Bird Society of Taipei   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Community; Diversity; Free water surface (FWS) constructed wetlands; Richness; Subtropics

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; DIVERSITY; RICHNESS; SUBTROPICS;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOLOGY; FISH; PHOSPHORUS; RECLAMATION; RIVER POLLUTION; SEWAGE; SOCIAL SCIENCES; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WETLANDS;

ABUNDANCE; ALGA; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIRD; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MACROPHYTE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTION CONTROL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

TAIWAN;

ALGAE; AVES; PISCES;

EID: 79960432065     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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