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

Preface.- In Memoriam: Olga Urbanc-Bercic.- Reed stands 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 discharge water from drained pasture, natural wetland and spruce forest during the years of 1999-2006 in Sumava mountains, Czech Republic.- Dynamics of litterfall and decomposition in peatland forests - Towards reliable carbon balance estimation?.- Near Infrared Spectroscopy for characterization of plant litter quality: Towards a simpler way of predicting C turnover in peatlands?.- Leachate treatment in newly-built peat filters: a pilot-scale study.- Monthly evapotranspiration coefficients of large reedbed 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 non-aerated subsurface flow constructed wetlands.- Constructed wetland Brehov: three years of monitoring.- Factors affecting the longevity of sub-surface horizontal flow systems operating as tertiary treatment for sewage effluent.- Investigations on nitrogen removal in a two-stage subsurface vertical flow constructed wetland.- Removal of heavy metals from industrial effluents by the submerged aquatic plant Myriophyllum spicatum L.- Cold seasonnitrogen 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 Pista 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.- Index.

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