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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"urban wetlands"”.
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Simulating Urban Landscape Transformation: Implications for Urban Wetlands at Multiple Scales
Urban landscape change simulation has received increasing attention in recent times. As a result, many studies have focused on various aspects of land change simulation, ranging from uncertainty of input data to model accuracy. While efforts have been put into improving many of the existing urban …
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The hydro politics of living with urban wetlands in Zimbabwe: pasts, presents and future
Urban wetlands are important ecosystems that support both nature and people, but they are under threat from growing cities, climate change, and economic challenges. This thesis looks at how people interact with wetlands, focusing on the power, policies, and everyday actions that shape how wetlands …
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An analysis of the ability of small urban wetlands to treat stormwater: the case of Princess Vlei wetland, Cape Town
The consequences of poor water quality on urban aquatic ecosystems have been well established by researchers worldwide. Stormwater management in the urban areas of South Africa predominately focuses on the collection and diversion of runoff into the nearest receiving water body, with little …
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Amphibian urbanism in Dhaka’s contested wetlands
Wetlands provide several ecosystem services and are globally critical infrastructure in the era of manufactured climate change. With rare exceptions, planners and policymakers have neglected urban wetlands. In this research, I delve into the complex relationship between urbanization and wetlands …
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Characterization of urban wetland vegetation and management practices
<p>Urban wetlands are important ecosystems that moderate flooding risks and improve water quality. Vegetation is a key component of urban wetlands; plants promote sedimentation, play critical roles in biogeochemical cycling, and provide food and habitats for other organisms. My research focuses on …
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A Knowledge-based approach of satellite image classification for urban wetland detection
… been a technical challenge to accurately detect urban wetlands with remotely sensed data by means of pixel-based image classification. This is mainly caused by inadequate spatial resolutions of satellite imagery, spectral similarities between urban wetlands and adjacent land covers, and the …
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Analyzing anuran diversity in urban and rural wetlands using frog call citizen science data
… in diversity and abundance of anurans in urban wetlands compared to rural wetlands in the Ridge and Valley ecoregion. A Hutchenson’s t-test and a Mann-Whitney U test found that the diversity scores of the two groups were not equal, with the rural wetlands having significantly higher …
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Multi-scale analysis of urban wetland changes using satellite remote sensing techniques
This study investigates urban wetland-cover changes in the Kansas City metropolitan area with analyses at various spatial and temporal scales. Not many studies fully addressed multi-scale urban wetland-cover dynamics in both the temporal and spatial dimension. The objective was to understand how …
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The Rhetorical Ecology of an Urban Wetland Complex
… Watershed, is a thirty square-mile urban and estuarine wetland in northeastern New Jersey on the outskirts of New York City. As urban wetlands have become a priority in the field of environmental management, this dissertation traces the rhetorical ecology of one such contested site …
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Designing green stormwater infrastructure for hydrologic and human benefits: an image based machine learning approach
Urbanization over the last century has degraded our natural water resources by increasing storm-water runoff, reducing nutrient retention, and creating poor ecosystem health downstream. The loss of tree canopy and expansion of impervious area and storm sewer systems have significantly decreased …
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Restoration Progress and Plant Community Development in Compensatory Mitigation Wetlands
… rapidly and predictably compensate for impacted wetlands. However, restoration success might vary depending on landscape context, which constrains the pace and outcome of succession. I reviewed the progress of 76 mitigation sites in Illinois, USA, from both a policy and an ecological perspective …
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Sustainable conservation of Sakumo wetlands for social and environmental benefits.
… anthropogenic activities within human-dominated wetlands. The benefits and values of wetlands to humankind are varied, with highly diverse ecosystems that provide essential goods and services to human well-being. Studies about wetland degradation identify urbanisation and population explosion as …
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An Inquiry Into the Diverse Modes of Caring in Khayelitsha Wetlands Parks World of Many Worlds
The management and governance of wetlands in Cape Town is largely informed by economic, techno-scientific, and engineering approaches which are deeply rooted in discourses of “Earth mastery”. Earth mastery aims to command, predict, and control the Earth's natural processes to access ecosystem …
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Evaluating the relative importance of stormwater for nutrient and metal contamination to the urban, groundwater dependent Yellagonga Wetlands, through wetland budgeting
Wetlands provide numerous ecosystem services and can be utilised as pollutant sinks, however excessive contamination of wetlands can induce adverse effects to wetland ecology and lead to degradation of its values. Runoff from precipitation mobilizes contaminants from impervious surfaces which are, …