Performance of pilot-scale vertical flow constructed wetlands with and without the emergent macrophyte Spartina alterniflora treating mariculture effluent

Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 405-413

  Sousa, Wilson Treger Zydowicz ^a   Panitz, Clarice Maria Neves ^b   Thomaz, Sidinei Magela ^c  

^a TIRADENTES UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Artificial wetlands; Denitrification; Dissolved oxygen; Mariculture effluent; Nitrification; Pollutant removal

Indexed keywords

SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 80052791963     PISSN: 15168913     EISSN: 16784324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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