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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. |
