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.
1.Netherlands Inst Ecol, Dept Aquat Ecol, POB 50, NL-6700 AB Wageningen, Netherlands 2.Stockholm Univ, Stockholm Resilience Ctr, Kraftriket 2B, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden 3.Univ Utrecht, Inst Environm Biol, Padualaan 8, NL-3584 CH Utrecht, Netherlands 4.Wageningen Univ & Res, Aquat Ecol & Water Qual Management, POB 22,47, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands 5.Witteveen Bos Consulting Engineers, POB 233, NL-7400 AE Deventer, Netherlands 6.Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Dept Aquat Ecol & Environm Biol, POB 9010, NL-6500 GL Nijmegen, Netherlands 7.Netherlands Inst Ecol, Dept Microbial Ecol, POB 50, NL-6700 AB Wageningen, Netherlands 8.Wageningen Univ & Res, Water Syst & Global Change Grp, POB 47,11, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands
Recommended Citation:
Teurlincx, Sven,Kuiper, Jan J.,Hoevenaar, Ellen C. M.,et al. Towards restoring urban waters: understanding the main pressures[J]. CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY,2019-01-01,36:49-58