Articles | Volume 20, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-109-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-109-2016
Review article
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18 Jan 2016
Review article |  | 18 Jan 2016

Carbon and nitrogen dynamics and greenhouse gas emissions in constructed wetlands treating wastewater: a review

M. M. R. Jahangir, K. G. Richards, M. G. Healy, L. Gill, C. Müller, P. Johnston, and O. Fenton

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