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Robert H. Kadlec was affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focused on environmental science, with notable contributions to industrial and manufacturing engineering, ecology, nutrition and dietetics, food science, and molecular biology.

The main topics covered in their work included constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment, infant nutrition and health, probiotics and fermented foods, gut microbiota and health, soil and water nutrient dynamics, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, as well as peatlands and wetlands ecology.

The publication record of Robert H. Kadlec contained several recent papers. These included:

  • "Identification of Synbiotics Conducive to Probiotics Adherence to Intestinal Mucosa Using an In Vitro Caco-2 and HT29-MTX Cell Model" (2021) published in Processes
  • "Phosphorus removal in surface flow treatment wetlands for domestic wastewater treatment: Global experiences, opportunities, and challenges" (2024) published in Journal of Environmental Management
  • "Treatment wetlands of the far north" (2023) published in Ecological Engineering
  • "Phosphorus Removal in Surface Flow Treatment Wetlands For Domestic Wastewater Treatment: Global Experiences, Opportunities, and Challenges" (2024) published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors who collaborated with Kadlec on multiple publications included Tao Lyu, Tom Headley, Bruce Jefferson, Gabriela Dotro, and Gabriela Krausová.

The main venues for publishing Kadlec's research were:

  • Processes
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Ecological Engineering
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Robert H. Kadlec's research spanned interdisciplinary approaches to environmental systems, particularly focusing on treatment wetlands and nutrient dynamics in different ecological contexts.

Best Publications

  • Phosphorus Retention in Streams and Wetlands: A Review

    K. R. Reddy;R. H. Kadlec;E. Flaig;P. M. Gale

  • Treatment Wetlands, Second Edition

    Robert Kadlec;Scott Wallace

  • Constructed wetlands for pollution control: Processes, performance, design and operation

    Robert Kadlec;Robert Knight;Jan Vymazal;Hans Brix

  • Constructed Wetlands for Pollution Control

    R. Knight;P. Cooper;H Brix;J. Vymazal

  • Temperature effects in treatment wetlands.

    Robert H. Kadlec;K.R. Reddy

  • The inadequacy of first-order treatment wetland models

    Robert H. Kadlec

  • Overland flow in wetlands: vegetation resistance.

    Robert H. Kadlec

  • Nitrogen processing gradients in subsurface-flow treatment wetlands—influence of wastewater characteristics

    Chris C. Tanner;Robert H. Kadlec;Max M. Gibbs;James P.S. Sukias

  • Detention and mixing in free water wetlands

    Robert H. Kadlec

  • Comparison of free water and horizontal subsurface treatment wetlands

    R.H. Kadlec

  • Constructed wetlands for the treatment of organic pollutants

    Raimund Haberl;Stefano Grego;Günter Langergraber;Robert H. Kadlec

  • The Use of Treatment Wetlands for Petroleum Industry Effluents

    Robert L. Knight;Robert H. Kadlec;Harry M. Ohlendorf

  • Wetland residence time distribution modeling

    Timothy M Werner;Robert H Kadlec

  • Chemical, physical and biological cycles in treatment wetlands

    Robert H. Kadlec

  • Overview: Surface flow constructed wetlands

    Robert H. Kadlec

  • Nitrogen spiraling in subsurface-flow constructed wetlands: Implications for treatment response

    Robert H. Kadlec;Chris C. Tanner;Vera M. Hally;Max M. Gibbs

  • Effects of pollutant speciation in treatment wetlands design

    Robert H Kadlec

  • Biogeochemistry of Phosphorus in Wetlands

    K. Ramesh Reddy;Robert G. Wetzel;Robert H. Kadlec

  • An autobiotic wetland phosphorus model

    Robert H. Kadlec

  • Separation of nitrogen and methane via periodic adsorption

    Philip Hain Turnock;Robert H. Kadlec

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris C. Tanner
Chris C. Tanner National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Hans Brix
Hans Brix Aarhus University
Jan Vymazal
Jan Vymazal Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
K. R. Reddy
K. R. Reddy University of Florida
John A. Robbins
John A. Robbins Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
Robert G. Wetzel
Robert G. Wetzel University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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