Wastewater Treatment, Plant Dynamics and Management in Constructed and Natural Wetlands

✍ Scribed by Mária Dinka, Edit Ágoston-Szabó (auth.), Dr. Jan Vymazal (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 352
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Wetlands were historically neglected until it was revealed that they could be economically valuable to man. They are one of the most dynamic ecosystems in the world and have many functions for society. For example, natural wetlands provide food staples, building materials, irrigation of agricultural lands, waterways, shelter for wildlife, and a means of flood control. Constructed wetlands provide a reliable treatment technology for various types of polluted water, including industrial and agricultural wastewater, stormwater runoff, municipal sewage and landfill leachate.

Both natural and constructed wetlands require careful management in order to optimally provide these functions, and this volume presents the latest results in the field of management and performance optimization of these systems. The book covers wetland science worldwide, with examples from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa.

It will be of interest not only to ecological and environmental scientists and teachers, but also to engineers, regulators and landscape planners.

✦ Table of Contents

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

✦ Subjects

Environment, general; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Applied Ecology; Environmental Management; Plant Ecology; Ecosystems