Effects of riparian vegetation restoration and environmental context on ecosystem functioning in tropical streams of southeastern Brazil

JMM Bega, WA Saltarelli, B Gücker, IG Boëchat… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Tropical stream ecosystems are under increasing human pressure, making the development
of effective restoration approaches and expanding knowledge in this field urgent. This study …

Increasing stability of a native freshwater fish assemblage following flow rehabilitation

E Jacinto, NA Fangue, DE Cocherell… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stream restorations are increasingly critical for managing and recovering freshwater
biodiversity in human‐dominated landscapes. However, few studies have quantified how …

Balancing upland green infrastructure and stream restoration to recover urban stormwater and nitrate load retention

R Zhang, LE Band, PM Groffman - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban watersheds have experienced ecosystem degradation due to land cover change from
vegetation to impervious areas. This transformation results in increased stormwater runoff …

Urbanization alters coastal plain stream carbon export and dissolved oxygen dynamics

AC Gold, SP Thompson, CL Magel… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Coastal plain streams in the southeastern United States supply carbon that supports
important coastal ecosystems, but the effects of urbanization on carbon export from these …

The effects of urbanization and retention‐based stormwater management on coastal plain stream nutrient export

AC Gold, SP Thompson… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Stormwater nutrient pollution can be more effectively managed if there is a predictable link
between urbanization and pollutant export. The goal of this study was to determine the …

Tree trade-offs in stream restoration: Impacts on riparian groundwater quality

KL Wood, SS Kaushal, PG Vidon, PM Mayer… - Urban …, 2022 - Springer
Riparian zones are a vital interface between land and stream and are often the focus of
stream restoration efforts to reduce nutrient pollution in waterways. Restoration of degraded …

[HTML][HTML] Stream restoration and ecosystem functioning in lowland streams

A Baattrup-Pedersen, AB Alnoe, JJ Rasmussen… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Restoration has been increasingly applied over the last decades as a way to improve the
ecological conditions in stream ecosystems, but documentation of the impact of restoration …

Dam removal effects on carbon processing in a mountainous Mediterranean stream

JMM Bega, DGF Cunha, MM López… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The global prevalence of obsolete or unsafe old dams necessitates the development of
effective restoration approaches and expanded knowledge in this field. This study evaluates …

Influences of elevated nutrients and water temperature from wastewater effluent on river ecosystem metabolism

M Zhang, MA Chadwick - Environmental Processes, 2022 - Springer
River ecosystem metabolism (REM) is a measure of ecological function which integrates
gross primary production (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (ER). Urban rivers often receive …

Large spatiotemporal variability in metabolic regimes for an urban stream draining four wastewater treatment plants with implications for dissolved oxygen monitoring

SH Ledford, JS Diamond, L Toran - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Urbanization and subsequent expansion of wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) capacity
has the potential to alter stream metabolic regimes, but the magnitude of this change …