Wintertime purification efficiency of constructed wetlands treating runoff from peat extraction in a cold climate

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 85, Issue , 2015, Pages 13-25

  Postila, Heini ^a   Ronkanen, Anna Kaisa ^a   Kløve, Bjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cold climate; Constructed wetlands; Peatland; Purification; Seasonal frost; Winter period

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFICIENCY; EXTRACTION; MANGANESE; PEAT; PURIFICATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WETLANDS;

COLD CLIMATE; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; PEATLAND; SEASONAL FROSTS; WINTER PERIOD;

RUNOFF;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CLIMATE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; FROST; PEATLAND; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PURIFICATION; RUNOFF; SNOWMELT; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WATER QUALITY;

FINLAND;

EID: 84944404215     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2015.09.066     Document Type: Article

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