Positioning urban rivers within urban ecology

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 285-291

  Francis, Robert A ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Freshwater; Review; Synthesis; Urban ecology; Urban river; Urban stream

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861457192     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-012-0227-6     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Anas A, Arnott R, Small KA (1998) Urban spatial structure. J Econ Lit 36: 1426-1464.
2. Attrill MJ (ed) (1998) A rehabilitated estuarine ecosystem: the environment and ecology of the Thames estuary. Kluwer, London.
3. Booth DB (2005) Challenges and prospects for restoring urban streams: a perspective from the Pacific Northwest of North America. J N Am Bentholl Soc 24: 724-737.
4. Borja A, Elliott M (2007) What does 'good ecological potential' mean, within the European Water Framework Directive? Mar Pollut Bull 54: 1559-1564.
5. Breen A, Rigby D (1994) Waterfronts: cities reclaim their edge. McGraw Hill, New York.
6. Chadwick MA, Thiele JE, Huryn AD, Benke AC, Dobberfuhl DR (2012) Effects of urbanization on macroinvertebrates in tributaries of the St. Johns River, Florida, USA. Urban Ecosyst (this issue) doi: 10. 1007/s11252-011-0217-0.
7. Chang TC, Huang S (2011) Reclaiming the city: waterfront development in Singapore. Urban Stud 48: 2085-2100.
8. Cockel CP, Gurnell AM (2012) An investigation of the composition of the urban riparian soil propagule bank along the River Brent, Greater London, UK, in comparison with previous propagule bank studies in rural areas. Urban Ecosyst (this issue) doi: 10. 1007/s11252-011-0203-6.
9. Conder JM, Sorensen MT, Leitman P, Martello LB, Wenning RJ (2009) Avian ecological risk potential in an urbanized estuary: Lower Hackensack River, New Jersey, USA. Sci Total Environ 407: 1035-1047.
10. Dudgeon D, Arthington AH, Gessner MO, Kawabata ZI, Knowler DJ, Leveque C, Naiman RJ, Prieur-Richard AH, Soto D, Stiassny MLJ, Sullivan CA (2006) Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges. Biol Rev 81: 163-182.
11. Eden S, Tunstall S (2006) Ecological versus social restoration? How urban river restoration challenges but also fails to challenge the science-policy nexus in the United Kingdom. Environ Plann C 24: 661-680.
12. Everard M, Moggridge HL (2012) Rediscovering the value of urban rivers. Urban Ecosyst (this issue) doi: 10. 1007/s11252-011-0174-7.
13. Findlay SJ, Taylor MP (2006) Why rehabilitate urban river systems? Area 38: 312-25.
14. Forman RTT (2008) Urban regions: ecology and planning beyond the city. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
15. Francis RA (2009) Perspectives on the potential for reconciliation ecology in urban riverscapes. CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources 4, art 73: 1-20.
16. Francis RA, Chadwick MA (2012) What makes a species synurbic? Appl Geogr 32: 514-552.
17. Francis RA, Hoggart SPG (2009) Urban river wall habitat and vegetation: observations from the River Thames through central London. Urban Ecosyst 12: 468-485.
18. Francis RA, Hoggart SPG (2012) The flora of urban river wallscapes. River Res Appl doi: 10. 1002/rra. 1497.
19. Francis RA, Lorimer J, Raco M (2012) Urban ecosystems as 'natural' homes for biogeographical boundary crossings. Trans Inst Br Geogr doi: 10. 1111/j. 1475-5661. 2011. 00470. x.
20. Gabr HS (2004) Perception of urban waterfront aesthetics along the Nile in Cairo, Egypt. Coast Manag 32: 155-171.
21. Grimm NB, Faeth SH, Golubiewski NE, Redman CL, Wu JG, Bai XM, Briggs JM (2008) Global change and the ecology of cities. Science 319: 756-760.
22. Groffman PM, Bain DJ, Band LE, Belt KT, Brush GS, Grove JM, Pouyat RV, Yesilonis IC, Zipperer WC (2003) Down by the riverside: urban riparian ecology. Front Ecol Environ 1: 315-321.
23. Gurnell A, Lee M, Souch C (2007) Urban rivers: hydrology, geomorphology, ecology and opportunities for change. Geogr Compass 1: 1118-1137.
24. Hoggart SPG, Francis RA, Chadwick MA (2012) Macroinvertebrate richness on flood defence walls of the tidal River Thames. Urban Ecosyst (this issue) doi: 10. 1007/s11252-011-0221-4.
25. Iannuzzi TJ, Armstrong TN, Thelen JB, Ludwig DF, Firstenberg CE (2005) Characterization of chemical contamination in shallow-water estuarine habitats of an industrialized river. Part 1: organic compounds. Soil Sediment Contam 14: 13-33.
26. Kinnell JC, Bingham MF, Hastings EA, Ray R, Craven V, Freeman M (2007) A survey methodology for collecting fish consumption data in urban and industrial water bodies (Part 1). J Toxicol Environ Health Part A Curr Issues 70: 477-495.
27. Klotz S, Kühn I (2010) Urbanisation and alien invasion. In: Gaston KJ (ed) Urban ecology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 120-133.
28. Kowarik I (2011) Novel urban ecosystems, biodiversity, and conservation. Environ Pollut 159: 1974-1983.
29. Lundy L, Wade R (2011) Integrating sciences to sustain urban ecosystem services. Prog Phys Geog 35: 653-669.
30. MacGregor-Fors I (2011) Misconceptions or misunderstandings? On the standardization of basic terms and definitions in urban ecology. Landscape Urban Plan 100: 347-349.
31. Paul MJ, Meyer JL (2001) Streams in the urban landscape. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 32: 333-365.
32. Pickett STA, Cadenasso ML, Grove JM, Boone CG, Groffman PM, Irwin E, Kaushal SS, Marshall V, McGrath BP, Nilon CH, Pouyat RV, Szlavecz K, Troy A, Warren P (2011a) Urban ecological systems: scientific foundations and a decade of progress. J Environ Manage 92: 331-362.
33. Pickett STA, Buckley GL, Kaushal SS, Williams Y (2011b) Social-ecological science in the humane metropolis. Urban Ecosyst 14: 319-339.
34. Potts D (2012) What do we know about urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa and does it matter? Int Dev Plan Rev 34 doi: 10. 3828/idpr. 2012. 1.
35. Ramalho CE, Hobbs RJ (2012) Time for a change: dynamic urban ecology. Trends Ecol Evol doi: 10. 1016/j. tree. 2011. 10. 008.
36. Ramírez A, Engman A, Rosas KG, Perez-Reyes O, Martinó-Cardona DM (2012) Urban impacts on tropical island streams: some key aspects influencing ecosystem response. Urban Ecosyst (this issue) doi: 10. 1007/s11252-011-0214-3.
37. Shuker L, Gurnell AM, Raco M (2012) Some simple tools for communicating the biophysical condition of urban rivers to support decision making in relation to river restoration. Urban Ecosyst (this issue) doi: 10. 1007/s11252-011-0207-2.
38. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (2007) Urbanization: A majority in cities. UNFPA, available at www.unfpa.org/pds/urbanization.htm [accessed 26 November 2011].
39. Vörösmarty CJ, McIntyre PB, Gessner MO, Dudgeon D, Prusevich A, Green P, Glidden S, Bunn SE, Sullivan CA, Liermann CR, Davies PM (2010) Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity. Nature 467: 555-561.
40. Walsh CJ, Roy AH, Feminella JW, Cottingham PD, Groffman PM, Morgan RP (2003) The urban stream syndrome: current knowledge and the search for a cure. J N Am Bentholl Soc 24: 706-723.
41. Wenger SJ, Roy AH, Jackson CR, Bernhardt ES, Carter TL, Filoso S, Gibson CA, Hession WC, Kaushal SS, Marti E, Meyer JL, Palmer MA, Paul MJ, Purcell AH, Ramirez A, Rosemond AD, Schofield KA, Sudduth EB, Walsh CJ (2009) Twenty-six key research questions in urban stream ecology: an assessment of the state of the science. J N Am Bentholl Soc 28: 1080-1098.
42. Wisner B, Pelling M (2008) African cities of hope and risk. In: Pelling M, Wisner B (eds) Disaster risk reduction: cases from urban Africa. Earthscan, London, pp 17-42.