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Saiers et al. 2003
Saiers, J.E., Harvey, J.W. and Mylon, S.E. (2003). Surface-water transport of suspended matter through wetland vegetation of the Florida everglades. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2003GL018132. issn: 0094-8276.

The mobility of waterborne particulate matter plays an important role in the water quality, landscape evolution, and ecology of freshwater wetlands. In this work, we measured the surface-water transport of inorganic particles in a tracer experiment at a wetland in the Florida Everglades. Comparison of the results of this experiment to calculations of a three-dimensional transport model shows that dispersive mixing was small and that rate-limited mass-transfer reactions with emergent vegetation and periphyton substantially reduced water-column concentrations of particles.

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Keywords
Hydrology, Surface water quality, Hydrology, Wetlands, Hydrology, Chemistry of fresh water
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Geophysical Research Letters
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