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Measurement of the Potential Rates of Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction to Ammonium Based on 14NH4+/15NH4+ Analyses via Sequential Conversion to N2O
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Nitrogen mass balance and microbial analysis of constructed wetlands treating municipal landfill leachate

C Polprasert1, V Sawaittayothin

  • 1School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand. Chongrak@ait.ac.th

Water Science and Technology : a Journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
|February 17, 2007
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