Pollution control by wetlands |
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| Authors: | Ülo Mander William J Mitsch |
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| Institution: | 1. FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa;2. Statistics in Ecology, Environment and Conservation, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa;1. University of Rostock, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Landscape Ecology and Site Evaluation, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 6, 18059 Rostock, Germany;2. University of Rostock, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Research, Department of Maritime Systems, Albert-Einstein-Straße 3, 18059 Rostock, Germany;3. University of Vienna, Department of Geography and Regional Research, Geoecology, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria |
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| Abstract: | The 2nd International Symposium on Wetland Pollutant Dynamics and Control (WETPOL 2007), organised by the Department of Geography of the University of Tartu (Estonia) in co-operation with partners from the Estonian University of Life Sciences (Tartu, Estonia), Ghent University (Belgium), and the UNESCO-IHE (Delft, The Netherlands), was held 16–20 September 2007, in Tartu, Estonia. At this meeting, 140 oral presentations (including 9 keynote speeches) and 70 posters by representatives from 38 countries were presented. About half of the presentations considered purification processes in both semi-natural and constructed wetlands. The editorial paper highlights trends in studying the cycling of nitrogen, phosphorus, carbon, heavy metals, and organic pollutants in wetlands, but also in the modelling of pollutant removal and the functioning of plants in the wetland environment. It also describes the WETPOL 2007 meeting, which served as the source of the selected papers, and briefly explains the main aspects of these papers. |
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