Urban and Freshwater Ecology

Dear Colleagues,

Biodiversity is declining worldwide, with particularly significant reductions in freshwater fauna and flora. With continuing anthropogenic pressures linked to urbanisation, such as habitat fragmentation and isolation, climate change and microclimate effects, established and emerging pollutants and multiple stressors likely to continue, biodiversity loss and species extinctions are expected to increase in the future. Increasing our understanding of urban freshwater ecosystems will enable more effective management (e.g., rehabilitation and restoration) and conservation measures to be developed and for the implementation of detailed national and international conservation policy.

Thus, papers submitted to this Special Issue will help to infill gaps in our understanding of the effects of urbanisation upon freshwater ecosystems at all scales of the ecological community, from genes to whole ecosystems, and how negative impacts may be avoided, mitigated or compensated. Topics may be empirical or applied and may include but are not limited to genetic, taxa and habitat/ecosystem compositional, structural and functional diversity or topics of theoretical foundation such as disturbance regimes, succession, fragmentation and ecosystem structure and function, as well as remediation and restoration methods and monitoring.

Dr. Ian A. Thornhill
Dr. Matthew Hill
Guest Editors

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• urbanization
• community ecology
• ecosystem functioning
• connectivity
• species distributions
• monitoring
• citizen science
• biodiversity
• restoration
• water quality