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.
Papildus informācija
Brings state-of-the-art results in the field of management and performance optimization of natural and constructed wetlands
Reed Stand Conditions at Selected Wetlands in Slovenia and Hungary.-
Water Quality and Macrophyte Community Changes in the Komarnik Accumulation
Lake (Slovenia).- Latitudinal Trends in Organic Carbon Accumulation in
Temperate Freshwater Peatlands.- Buffering Performance in a Papyrus-Dominated
Wetland System of the Kenyan Portion of the Lake Victoria Basin.- Changes in
Concentrations of Dissolved Solids in Precipitation and Discharged Water from
Drained Pasture, Natural Wetland and Spruce Forest During 19992006 in umava
Mountains, Czech Republic.- Dynamics of Litterfall and Decomposition in
Peatland Forests: Towards Reliable Carbon Balance Estimation?.- Near Infrared
Reflectance Spectroscopy for Characterization of Plant Litter Quality:
Towards a Simpler Way of Predicting Carbon Turnover in Peatlands?.- Leachate
Treatment in Newly Built Peat Filters: A Pilot-Scale Study.- Monthly
Evapotranspiration Coefficients of Large Reed Bed Habitats in the United
Kingdom.- The Hydrological Sustainability of Constructed Wetlands for
Wastewater Treatment.- Factors Affecting Metal Accumulation, Mobility and
Availability in Intertidal Wetlands of the Scheldt Estuary (Belgium).- Reed
Bed Sewage Treatment and Community Development/Participation.- The
Constructed Wetland Association's Database of Constructed Wetland Systems in
the UK.- Nitrogen Removal by a Combined Subsurface Vertical Down-Flow and
Up-Flow Constructed Wetland System.- Statistical Analysis of Treatment
Performance in Aerated and Nonaerated Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands.-
Constructed Wetland B?ehov: Three Years of Monitoring.- Factors Affecting the
Longevity of Subsurface Horizontal flow Systems Operating as Tertiary
Treatment for Sewage Effluent.- Investigations on Nitrogen Removal in a
Two-Stage SubsurfaceVertical Flow Constructed Wetland.- Removal of Heavy
Metals from Industrial Effluents by the Submerged Aquatic Plant Myriophyllum
spicatum L..- Cold Season Nitrogen Removal in a High Loaded Free Water
Surface Wetland with Emergent Vegetation.- The Role of Vegetation in
Phosphorus Removal by Cold Climate Constructed Wetland: The Effects of
Aeration and Growing Season.- Performance of Reed Beds Supplied with
Municipal Landfill Leachate.- Enhanced Denitrification by a Hybrid HF-FWS
Constructed Wetland in a Large-Scale Wastewater Treatment Plant.- Growth
Dynamics of Pistia stratiotes in Temperate Climate.- Fractionation,
Biodegradability and Particle-Size Distribution of Organic Matter in
Horizontal Subsurface-Flow Constructed Wetlands.- Wastewater-fed Aquaculture,
Otelfingen, Switzerland: Influence of System Design and Operation Parameters
on the Efficiency of Nutrient Incorporation into Plant Biomass.- Is
Concentration of Dissolved Oxygen a Good Indicator of Processes in Filtration
Beds of Horizontal-Flow Constructed Wetlands?.- Pollutant Transformation
Performance and Model Development in African Wetland Systems: Large Catchment
Extrapolation.- Sulfur Cycling in Constructed Wetlands.
