Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems
  • CASE STUDIES.
  • The effects of urbanization on biodiversity and water quality in the Rio das Velhas basin, Brazil
  • Urbanization consequences: case studies in the Hudson River watershed
  • Effects of landscape change on fish assemblage structure in a rapidly growing metropolitan area in North Carolina, USA
  • Measuring the economic benefits of water quality improvement with benefit transfer: an introduction for noneconomists
  • Urbanization effects on fishes and habitat quality in a southern Piedmont river basin
  • Effects of urbanization on the geomorphology, habitat, hydrology, and fish index of biotic integrity of streams in the Chicago area, Illinois and Wisconsin
  • Physiological stress response of brown trout to stormwater runoff events in Rapid Creek, Rapid City, South Dakota
  • Impacts of land-use changes and hydrologic modification on the lower Boise River, Idaho, USA
  • Hydrologic changes in urban streams and their ecological significance
  • Setting limits: the development and use of factor-ceiling distributions for an urban assessment using macroinvertebrates
  • Relationships of field habitat measurements, visual habitat indices, and land cover to benthic macroinvertebrates in the urbanized streams of the Santa Clara Valley, California
  • Managing conflicts on the lower American River- can urban and agricultural demands be met while maintaining healthy fisheries?
  • Relations between fish assemblages and urbanization in southern California coastal streams
  • Assessing water source and channel type as factors affecting benthic macroinvertebrate and periphyton assemblages in the highly urbanized Santa Ana River basin, California
  • Aquatic assemblages of the highly urbanized Santa Ana River basin, California
  • REGIONAL COMPARISONS.
  • Use of an urban intensity index to assess urban effects on streams in three contrasting environmental settings
  • Urbanization effects on stream habitat characteristics in Boston, Massachusetts; Birmingham, Alabama; and Salt Lake City, Utah
  • A comparison of the influences of urbanization in contrasting environmental settings on stream benthic algal assemblages
  • Effects of urbanization on benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in contrasting environmental settings: Boston, Massachusetts; Birmingham, Alabama; and Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Fish assemblage responses to urban intensity gradients in contrasting metropolitan areas: Birmingham, Alabama and Boston, Massachusetts.