Key factors influencing differences in stream water quality across space

A Lintern, JA Webb, D Ryu, S Liu… - Wiley …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, many rivers are experiencing declining water quality, for example, with altered
levels of sediments, salts, and nutrients. Effective water quality management requires a …

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 …

Influence of land use and land cover patterns on seasonal water quality at multi-spatial scales

P Shi, Y Zhang, Z Li, P Li, G Xu - Catena, 2017 - Elsevier
The influence of land use patterns on stream water quality is scale-dependent in space and
time. Understanding the relationship between landscape characteristics and water quality is …

Influences of the land use pattern on water quality in low-order streams of the Dongjiang River basin, China: A multi-scale analysis

J Ding, Y Jiang, Q Liu, Z Hou, J Liao, L Fu… - Science of the total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Understanding the relationships between land use patterns and water quality in low-order
streams is useful for effective landscape planning to protect downstream water quality. A …

Influences of land use metrics at multi-spatial scales on seasonal water quality: a case study of river systems in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

J Zhang, S Li, R Dong, C Jiang, M Ni - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
The impact of land use metrics on watershed water quality is scale-dependent on a
seasonal-spatial basis. Exploring the associations between land use metrics and riverine …

Thresholds of freshwater biodiversity in response to riparian vegetation loss in the Neotropical region

RB Dala‐Corte, AS Melo, T Siqueira… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Protecting riparian vegetation around streams is vital in reducing the detrimental effects of
environmental change on freshwater ecosystems and in maintaining aquatic biodiversity …

Land-use change interacts with climate to determine elevational species redistribution

F Guo, J Lenoir, TC Bonebrake - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Climate change is driving global species redistribution with profound social and economic
impacts. However, species movement is largely constrained by habitat availability and …

Impacts of land use change on watershed streamflow and sediment yield: An assessment using hydrologic modelling and partial least squares regression

B Yan, NF Fang, PC Zhang, ZH Shi - Journal of Hydrology, 2013 - Elsevier
Understanding how changes in individual land use types influence the dynamics of
streamflow and sediment yield would greatly improve the predictability of the hydrological …

A new method for detecting and interpreting biodiversity and ecological community thresholds

ME Baker, RS King - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Existing methods for identifying ecological community thresholds are designed for univariate
indicators or multivariate dimension‐reduction of community structure. Most are insensitive …

Landscape metrics and indices: an overview of their use in landscape research

E Uuemaa, M Antrop, J Roosaare, R Marja… - Living reviews in …, 2009 - biblio.ugent.be
The aim of this overview paper is to analyze the use of various landscape metrics and
landscape indices for the characterization of landscape structure and various processes at …