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

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Reed Stand Conditions at Selected Wetlands in Slovenia and Hungary

   • Mária Dinka, Edit Ágoston-Szabó, Olga Urbanc-Berčič, Mateja Germ, Nina Šraj-Kržič, Alenka Gaberščik

   Pages 1-12

3. Water Quality and Macrophyte Community Changes in the Komarnik Accumulation Lake (Slovenia)

   • Brigita Horvat, Olga Urbanc-Berčič, Alenka Gaberščik

   Pages 13-22

4. Latitudinal Trends in Organic Carbon Accumulation in Temperate Freshwater Peatlands

   • Christopher Craft, Chad Washburn, Amanda Parker

   Pages 23-31

5. Buffering Performance in a Papyrus-Dominated Wetland System of the Kenyan Portion of the Lake Victoria Basin

   • Herbert John Bavor, Michael Thomas Waters

   Pages 33-38

6. 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

   • Jan Procházka, Jakub Brom, Libor Pechar, Jana Štíchová, Jan Pokorný

   Pages 39-51

7. Dynamics of Litterfall and Decomposition in Peatland Forests: Towards Reliable Carbon Balance Estimation?

   • Raija Laiho, Kari Minkkinen, Jani Anttila, Petra Vávřová, Timo Penttilä

   Pages 53-64

8. Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy for Characterization of Plant Litter Quality: Towards a Simpler Way of Predicting Carbon Turnover in Peatlands?

   • Petra Vávrová, Bo Stenberg, Marjut Karsisto, Veikko Kitunen, Tarja Tapanila, Raija Laiho

   Pages 65-87

9. Leachate Treatment in Newly Built Peat Filters: A Pilot-Scale Study

   • Pille Kängsepp, Margit Kõiv, Mait Kriipsalu, Ülo Mander

   Pages 89-98

10. Monthly Evapotranspiration Coefficients of Large Reed Bed Habitats in the United Kingdom

    • Katy E. Read, Peter D. Hedges, Phil M. Fermor

    Pages 99-109

11. The Hydrological Sustainability of Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment

    • Peter D. Hedges, Phil M. Fermor, Jiří Dušek

    Pages 111-120

12. Factors Affecting Metal Accumulation, Mobility and Availability in Intertidal Wetlands of the Scheldt Estuary (Belgium)

    • Gijs Du Laing, Annelies Van de Moortel, Els Lesage, Filip M. G. Tack, Marc G. Verloo

    Pages 121-133

13. Reed Bed Sewage Treatment and Community Development/Participation

    • Sean O'Hogain

    Pages 135-147

14. The Constructed Wetland Association's Database of Constructed Wetland Systems in the UK

    • Paul Cooper

    Pages 149-160

15. Nitrogen Removal by a Combined Subsurface Vertical Down-Flow and Up-Flow Constructed Wetland System

    • Suwasa Kantawanichkul, Kiattisak Pingkul, Hiroyuki Araki

    Pages 161-170

16. Statistical Analysis of Treatment Performance in Aerated and Nonaerated Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands

    • Scott Wallace, Jaime Nivala, Troy Meyers

    Pages 171-180

17. Constructed Wetland Břehov: Three Years of Monitoring

    • Lenka Kröpfelová

    Pages 181-190

18. Factors Affecting the Longevity of Subsurface Horizontal flow Systems Operating as Tertiary Treatment for Sewage Effluent

    • David Cooper, Paul Griffin, Paul Cooper

    Pages 191-198

19. Investigations on Nitrogen Removal in a Two-Stage Subsurface Vertical Flow Constructed Wetland

    • Günter Langergraber, Christoph Prandtstetten, Alexander Pressl, Kirsten Sleytr, Klaus Leroch, Roland Rohrhofer et al.

    Pages 199-209

20. Removal of Heavy Metals from Industrial Effluents by the Submerged Aquatic Plant Myriophyllum spicatum L.

    • Els Lesage, Charity Mundia, Diederik P. L. Rousseau, Annelies Van de Moortel, Gijs Du Laing, Filip M. G. Tack et al.

    Pages 211-221

At present, constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment are a widely used technology for treatment of various types of wastewaters. The International Water Association (then International Association on Water Pollution Research and Control) recognized wetlands as useful tools for wastewater treatment and est- lished the series of biennial conferences on the use of wetland systems for water pollution control in 1988. In about 1993, we decided to organize a workshop on nutrient cycling in natural and constructed wetlands with the major idea to bring together researchers working on constructed and also natural wetlands. It was not our intention to compete with IWA conferences, but the workshop should rather complement the series on treatment wetlands by IWA. We believed that the exchange of information obtained from natural and constructed wetlands would be beneficial for all participants. And the time showed that we were correct. The first workshop took place in 1995 at T?ebo? in South Bohemia and most of the papers dealt with constructed wetlands. Over the years we extended the topics on natural wetlands (such as role of wetlands in the landscape or wetland restoration and creation) and during the 6th workshop held at T?ebo? from May 30 to June 3, 2006, nearly half of 38 papers presented during the workshop dealt with natural wetlands. This workshop was attended by 39 participants from 19 countries from Europe, Asia, North and South Americas and Australia. The volume contains 29 peer-reviewed papers out of 38 papers which were presented during the workshop.

• Filtration
• Stormwater
• development
• ecosystems
• environment
• peat
• vegetation
• wetland
• water quality and water pollution
• water policy

• Institute of Systems Biology and Ecology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

  Jan Vymazal

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