Effect of Plant Species and Nutrient Loading Rates in Treatment Wetlands for Polluted River Water Under a Subtropical Cl
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Effect of Plant Species and Nutrient Loading Rates in Treatment Wetlands for Polluted River Water Under a Subtropical Climate Katharina Tondera & Kankan Shang & Gilles Vincent & Florent Chazarenc & Yonghong Hu & Jacques Brisson
Received: 28 April 2020 / Accepted: 20 August 2020 # Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract The performance of 14 large pilot-scale horizontal flow wetlands (~ 60 m2 each) designed to treat polluted river water was tested in a 3-year study at the Chenshan Botanical Garden in Shanghai, China. Five local species, Arundo donax, Cyperus alternifolius, Phragmites australis, Thalia dealbata and Typha orientalis, were planted in monocultures and in a polyculture of Phragmites, Thalia and Typha. Total nitrogen (TN) removal was compared among species and to an unplanted bed. Each bed was replicated once, and the parallel setup received a TN inflow concentration of 16 mg L−1 on average over each summer season, a level twice as high as for the beds receiving unspiked inflow. During the first 2 years of operation, the only significant differences in pollutant removal were Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-020-04830-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. K. Tondera IMT Atlantique Bretagne - Pays de la Loire, Department of Energy Systems and Environment, 44307 Nantes, France K. Tondera (*) : F. Chazarenc INRAE, REVERSAAL, F-69625 Villeurbanne, France e-mail: [email protected] (*) : G. Vincent : Y. Hu
K. Shang Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, Shanghai Chenshan Plant Research Center, Shanghai, China e-mail: [email protected] J. Brisson Département de sciences biologiques, Institut de recherche en biologie végétale, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
between planted and unplanted systems. In the third year, significant differences appeared among planted beds in the high nutrient systems, with Phragmites being the most efficient species in TN removal and Arundo the least, suggesting that greater inflow and more maturity may be needed before differences can be detected. The polyculture was never significantly more efficient than the other planted systems. However, it ranked among the best systems in 2018. Yet, while a greater removal of the polyculture over the average TN removal of all monocultures taken together may develop over time, we found no evidence that the polyculture may get more efficient than the best monoculture. Observation over all phases of plant establishment made it possible to draw conclusions for future design and operation. Keywords Horizontal flow wetland . River water treatment . Nutrient removal . Polyculture . Plant comparison . Plant establishment
1 Introduction The effect of plant species on the pollutant removal efficiency of treatment wetlands (TWs) has been investigated repeatedly, but mostly on a laboratory or mesocosm scale and over a short period of time. However, long-term investigations using pilot-scale systems are necessary to enable the
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