Protecting the Florida Everglades wetlands with wetlands: Can stormwater phosphorus be reduced to oligotrophic conditions?

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 80, Issue , 2015, Pages 8-19

  Mitsch, William J ^a,b   Zhang, Li ^a   Marois, Darryl ^a,b   Song, Keunyea ^b,c  

^a FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cladium jamaicense; Florida Everglades; Najas guadalupensis; Nymphaea odorata; Phosphorus; Stormwater treatment; Treatment wetlands; Typha domingensis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; LOADING; NUTRIENTS; SOILS; STORM SEWERS; STORMS; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

CLADIUM JAMAICENSE; FLORIDA EVERGLADES; NAJAS GUADALUPENSIS; NYMPHAEA ODORATA; STORMWATER TREATMENT; TREATMENT WETLANDS; TYPHA DOMINGENSIS;

PHOSPHORUS;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DATA SET; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GRASS; MESOCOSM; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEDGE; STORMWATER; VEGETATION TYPE; WATER TREATMENT;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

CHARA; CLADIUM JAMAICENSE; ELEOCHARIS; NAJAS GUADALUPENSIS; NYMPHAEA; NYMPHAEA ODORATA; TYPHA; TYPHA DOMINGENSIS;

EID: 84916892544     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.10.006     Document Type: Article

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