Contribution of different wetland plant species to the DOC exported from a mesocosm experiment in the Florida Everglades

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 118-125

  Villa, Jorge A ^a,b,c   Mitsch, William J ^a,b   Song, Keunyea ^d   Miao, ShiLi ^e  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Universitaria Lasallista   (Colombia)

^d TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e Water Quality Treatment Technologies Section South Florida Water Management District   (United States)

Author keywords

DOC; DOM; Everglades; Macrophytes; Stable carbon isotopes; Submerged aquatic vegetation; Wetland mesocosm; Wetland vegetation

Indexed keywords

CARBON; EXPERIMENTS; ISOTOPES; VEGETATION;

DOC; DOM; EVERGLADES; MACROPHYTES; MESOCOSMS; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPES; SUBMERGED AQUATIC VEGETATIONS; WETLAND VEGETATION;

WETLANDS;

BIOMASS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; MACROPHYTE; MESOCOSM; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; WETLAND; CARBON FLUX; CARBON ISOTOPE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84905250756     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.07.011     Document Type: Article

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