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Floating Wetlands for the Improvement of Water Quality and Provision of Ecosystem Services in Urban Eutrophic Lakes

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The occurrence of eutrophic urban water bodies is widely spread globally especially in countries where sanitary infrastructure is deficient in medium and small cities. Floating Wetlands also known as Treatment Floating Wetlands or Floating Islands are a suitable option for the treatment or improvement of the water quality in urban water bodies since they show several advantages over other systems, especially that they can operate in situ and no additional surface of land is required. They have been applied for the treatment of various types of water/wastewater ranging from low nutrient to high nutrient content. Their efficiency at removal of nutrients and other type of pollutants depends on several factors being the most important ones the initial concentration of pollutants, the environmental conditions, and the characteristic of the utilized plants. Emphasis is given in the need of research at large-scale applications in situ and also in the study of the potential of FW for the provision of ecosystem services. There are very few studies oriented towards this latter issue, which is currently a very important one for understanding their benefits to the urban human communities.

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Acknowledgments

Authors acknowledge the technical assistance from Erik Gonzalez-Portela and Francisco Javier Melo. They also thank the financial support from the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) through the Project 215148, entitled “Improvement of the water quality in polluted urban water bodies using Floating Wetlands .”

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  1. Institute of Ecology, Environmental Biotechnology Group, Carretera Antigua a Coatepec # 351, El Haya, Xalapa, Veracruz, 91070, Mexico

    Eugenia J. Olguín & Gloria Sánchez-Galván

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    Abid A. Ansari

  2. Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India

    Sarvajeet Singh Gill

  3. Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India

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  4. College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse, New York, USA

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Olguín, E.J., Sánchez-Galván, G. (2017). Floating Wetlands for the Improvement of Water Quality and Provision of Ecosystem Services in Urban Eutrophic Lakes. In: Ansari, A., Gill, S., Gill, R., R. Lanza, G., Newman, L. (eds) Phytoremediation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52381-1_10

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