Impacts of urbanisation on hydrological and water quality dynamics, and urban water management: a review

SJ McGrane - Hydrological Sciences Journal, 2016‏ - Taylor & Francis
As urban space continues to expand to accommodate a growing global population, there
remains a real need to quantify and qualify the impacts of urban space on natural processes …

Understanding, management and modelling of urban hydrology and its consequences for receiving waters: A state of the art

TD Fletcher, H Andrieu, P Hamel - Advances in water resources, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Urban hydrology has evolved to improve the way urban runoff is managed for flood
protection, public health and environmental protection. There have been significant recent …

Influences of natural and anthropogenic factors on surface and groundwater quality in rural and urban areas

N Khatri, S Tyagi - Frontiers in life science, 2015‏ - Taylor & Francis
Although water constitutes 71% of the earth's surface, only 0.3% of it is available as fresh
water for human use. Moreover, the quality of fresh water in ground and surface systems is …

Urban ecological systems: Scientific foundations and a decade of progress

STA Pickett, ML Cadenasso, JM Grove… - Journal of environmental …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Urban ecological studies, including focus on cities, suburbs, and exurbs, while having deep
roots in the early to mid 20th century, have burgeoned in the last several decades. We use …

The urban stream syndrome: current knowledge and the search for a cure

CJ Walsh, AH Roy, JW Feminella… - Journal of the North …, 2005‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
The term “urban stream syndrome” describes the consistently observed ecological
degradation of streams draining urban land. This paper reviews recent literature to describe …

Global perspectives on the urban stream syndrome

DB Booth, AH Roy, B Smith, KA Capps - Freshwater Science, 2016‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
abstract Urban streams commonly express degraded physical, chemical, and biological
conditions that have been collectively termed the “urban stream syndrome”. The description …

A review of allochthonous organic matter dynamics and metabolism in streams

JL Tank, EJ Rosi-Marshall, NA Griffiths… - Journal of the North …, 2010‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
The role of allochthonous organic matter in lotic ecosystems has been an important research
topic among aquatic ecologists since the seminal work by Lindeman was published in 1942 …

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 …

Global abundance and size distribution of streams and rivers

JA Downing, JJ Cole, CM Duarte, JJ Middelburg… - Inland …, 2012‏ - Taylor & Francis
To better integrate lotic ecosystems into global cycles and budgets, we provide
approximations of the size-distribution and areal extent of streams and rivers. One approach …

Urbanization effects on watershed hydrology and in-stream processes in the southern United States

M O'Driscoll, S Clinton, A Jefferson, A Manda… - Water, 2010‏ - mdpi.com
The southern United States is characterized by a humid, subtropical climate and consists of
16 states (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky …