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 …

This literature review addresses how wide a streamside forest buffer needs to be to protect
water quality, habitat, and biota for small streams (≤~ 100 km2 or~ 5th order watershed) …

The southern United States is characterized by a humid, subtropical climate and consists of
16 states (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky …

The rapid conversion of land to urban and suburban areas has profoundly altered how water
flows during and following storm events, putting higher volumes of water and more …

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 …

The impervious cover model (ICM) has attracted considerable attention in recent years, with
nearly 250 research studies testing its basic hypothesis that the behavior of urban stream …

Pollution by plastics is a global problem, in particular through the contamination of aquatic
environments and biodiversity. Although plastic contamination is well documented in the …

Habitat homogenization is one of the most important drivers of change in riverine fauna.
Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine whether habitat homogenization influences …

Restoration of riparian forests has been promoted as a means of mitigating urban impacts
on stream ecosystems. However, conventional urban stormwater drainage may diminish the …

Mitigation of urban effects on streams requires an understanding of the paths by which
urban effects are transmitted from catchments to streams and how those effects are …