Wastewater treatment, plant dynamics and management in constructed and natural wetlands

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Reed Stand Conditions at Selected Wetlands in Slovenia and Hungary....Pages 1-12
Water Quality and Macrophyte Community Changes in the Komarnik Accumulation Lake (Slovenia)....Pages 13-22
Latitudinal Trends in Organic Carbon Accumulation in Temperate Freshwater Peatlands....Pages 23-31
Buffering Performance in a Papyrus-Dominated Wetland System of the Kenyan Portion of the Lake Victoria Basin....Pages 33-38
Changes in Concentrations of Dissolved Solids in Precipitation and Discharged Water from Drained Pasture, Natural Wetland and Spruce Forest During 1999–2006 in Šumava Mountains, Czech Republic....Pages 39-51
Dynamics of Litterfall and Decomposition in Peatland Forests: Towards Reliable Carbon Balance Estimation?....Pages 53-64
Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy for Characterization of Plant Litter Quality: Towards a Simpler Way of Predicting Carbon Turnover in Peatlands?....Pages 65-87
Leachate Treatment in Newly Built Peat Filters: A Pilot-Scale Study....Pages 89-98
Monthly Evapotranspiration Coefficients of Large Reed Bed Habitats in the United Kingdom....Pages 99-109
The Hydrological Sustainability of Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment....Pages 111-120
Factors Affecting Metal Accumulation, Mobility and Availability in Intertidal Wetlands of the Scheldt Estuary (Belgium)....Pages 121-133
Reed Bed Sewage Treatment and Community Development/Participation....Pages 135-147
The Constructed Wetland Association\'s Database of Constructed Wetland Systems in the UK....Pages 149-160
Nitrogen Removal by a Combined Subsurface Vertical Down-Flow and Up-Flow Constructed Wetland System....Pages 161-170
Statistical Analysis of Treatment Performance in Aerated and Nonaerated Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands....Pages 171-180
Constructed Wetland Břehov: Three Years of Monitoring....Pages 181-190
Factors Affecting the Longevity of Subsurface Horizontal flow Systems Operating as Tertiary Treatment for Sewage Effluent....Pages 191-198
Investigations on Nitrogen Removal in a Two-Stage Subsurface Vertical Flow Constructed Wetland....Pages 199-209
Removal of Heavy Metals from Industrial Effluents by the Submerged Aquatic Plant Myriophyllum spicatum L.....Pages 211-221
Cold Season Nitrogen Removal in a High Loaded Free Water Surface Wetland with Emergent Vegetation....Pages 223-236
The Role of Vegetation in Phosphorus Removal by Cold Climate Constructed Wetland: The Effects of Aeration and Growing Season....Pages 237-249
Performance of Reed Beds Supplied with Municipal Landfill Leachate....Pages 251-265
Enhanced Denitrification by a Hybrid HF-FWS Constructed Wetland in a Large-Scale Wastewater Treatment Plant....Pages 267-275
Growth Dynamics of Pistia stratiotes in Temperate Climate....Pages 277-287
Fractionation, Biodegradability and Particle-Size Distribution of Organic Matter in Horizontal Subsurface-Flow Constructed Wetlands....Pages 289-297
Wastewater-fed Aquaculture, Otelfingen, Switzerland: Influence of System Design and Operation Parameters on the Efficiency of Nutrient Incorporation into Plant Biomass....Pages 299-310
Is Concentration of Dissolved Oxygen a Good Indicator of Processes in Filtration Beds of Horizontal-Flow Constructed Wetlands?....Pages 311-317
Pollutant Transformation Performance and Model Development in African Wetland Systems: Large Catchment Extrapolation....Pages 319-327
Sulfur Cycling in Constructed Wetlands....Pages 329-344
Back Matter....Pages 345-348