TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards restoring urban waters
T2 - understanding the main pressures
AU - Teurlincx, Sven
AU - Kuiper, Jan J.
AU - Hoevenaar, Ellen C.M.
AU - Lurling, Miquel
AU - Brederveld, Robert J.
AU - Veraart, Annelies J.
AU - Janssen, Annette B.G.
AU - Mooij, Wolf M.
AU - de Senerpont Domis, Lisette N.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2019/2
Y1 - 2019/2
N2 - Water bodies in the urban landscape are omnipresent, with many being small, lentic waters such as ponds and lakes. Because of high anthropogenic forcing, these systems have poor water quality, with large consequences for the provisioning of ecosystem services. Understanding of the main pressures on urban water quality is key to successful management. We identify six pressures that we hypothesize to have strong links to anthropogenic forcing including: eutrophication, aquatic invasive species, altered hydrology, altered habitat structure, climate change, and micropollutants. We discuss how these pressures may affect water quality and ecological functioning of urban waters. We describe how these pressures may interact, posing challengers for water management. We identify steps that need to be taken towards sustainable restoration, recognizing the challenges that potentially interacting pressures pose to water managers.
AB - Water bodies in the urban landscape are omnipresent, with many being small, lentic waters such as ponds and lakes. Because of high anthropogenic forcing, these systems have poor water quality, with large consequences for the provisioning of ecosystem services. Understanding of the main pressures on urban water quality is key to successful management. We identify six pressures that we hypothesize to have strong links to anthropogenic forcing including: eutrophication, aquatic invasive species, altered hydrology, altered habitat structure, climate change, and micropollutants. We discuss how these pressures may affect water quality and ecological functioning of urban waters. We describe how these pressures may interact, posing challengers for water management. We identify steps that need to be taken towards sustainable restoration, recognizing the challenges that potentially interacting pressures pose to water managers.
KW - ITC-CV
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85056176134&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2018.10.011
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2018.10.011
M3 - Review article
SN - 1877-3435
VL - 36
SP - 49
EP - 58
JO - Current opinion in environmental sustainability
JF - Current opinion in environmental sustainability
ER -
