The importance of small waterbodies for biodiversity and ecosystem services: implications for policy makers

J Biggs, S Von Fumetti, M Kelly-Quinn - Hydrobiologia, 2017 - Springer
Small waterbodies, including ponds and small lakes, low-order streams, ditches and
springs, are the most numerous freshwater environments globally, are critical for freshwater …

Ecological homogenization of urban USA

PM Groffman, J Cavender-Bares… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A visually apparent but scientifically untested outcome of land‐use change is
homogenization across urban areas, where neighborhoods in different parts of the country …

The urban watershed continuum: evolving spatial and temporal dimensions

SS Kaushal, KT Belt - Urban Ecosystems, 2012 - Springer
Urban ecosystems are constantly evolving, and they are expected to change in both space
and time with active management or degradation. An urban watershed continuum …

Spatial–temporal dynamics of urban green space in response to rapid urbanization and greening policies

X Zhou, YC Wang - Landscape and urban planning, 2011 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanization has caused many environmental impacts associated with the reduction
of green space. Having realized the important role of green space in urban ecosystems …

Integrating urban water fluxes and moving beyond impervious surface cover: A review

CJ Oswald, C Kelleher, SH Ledford, KG Hopkins… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Though urban areas represent a small fraction of global land cover, they have an outsized
impact on hydrological processes. Within these areas, the pathways that water follows are …

Effects of watershed topography, soils, land use, and climate on baseflow hydrology in humid regions: A review

K Price - Progress in physical geography, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Baseflow is the portion of streamflow that is sustained between precipitation events, fed to
stream channels by delayed (usually subsurface) pathways. Understanding baseflow …

Twenty-six key research questions in urban stream ecology: an assessment of the state of the science

SJ Wenger, AH Roy, CR Jackson… - Journal of the North …, 2009 - journals.uchicago.edu
Urban streams have been the focus of much research in recent years, but many questions
about the mechanisms driving the urban stream syndrome remain unanswered …

Opportunities and challenges for managing nitrogen in urban stormwater: A review and synthesis

KA Collins, TJ Lawrence, EK Stander, RJ Jontos… - Ecological …, 2010 - Elsevier
Although nitrogen (N) is prevalent in urban stormwater, regulation of this pollutant has
occurred only more recently. This paper reviews the concerns over N in urban stormwater …

Source-control stormwater management for mitigating the impacts of urbanisation on baseflow: A review

P Hamel, E Daly, TD Fletcher - Journal of Hydrology, 2013 - Elsevier
While infiltration source-control technologies are increasingly used to manage the volume,
rate and quality of stormwater runoff, there is little guidance on their role and impact on …

Principles for urban stormwater management to protect stream ecosystems

CJ Walsh, DB Booth, MJ Burns… - Freshwater …, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Urban stormwater runoff is a critical source of degradation to stream ecosystems globally.
Despite broad appreciation by stream ecologists of negative effects of stormwater runoff …