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The influence of urbanisation on macroinvertebrate biodiversity in constructed stormwater wetlands

Overview of attention for article published in Science of the Total Environment, July 2015
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Title
The influence of urbanisation on macroinvertebrate biodiversity in constructed stormwater wetlands
Published in
Science of the Total Environment, July 2015
DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.066
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Teresa J. Mackintosh, Jenny A. Davis, Ross M. Thompson

Abstract

The construction of wetlands in urban environments is primarily carried out to assist in the removal of contaminants from wastewaters; however, these wetlands have the added benefit of providing habitat for aquatic invertebrates, fish and waterbirds. Stormwater quantity and quality is directly related to impervious area (roads, sealed areas, roofs) in the catchment. As a consequence, it would be expected that impervious area would be related to contaminant load and biodiversity in receiving waters such as urban wetlands. This study aimed to establish whether the degree of urbanisation and its associated changes to stormwater runoff affected macroinvertebrate richness and abundance within constructed wetlands. Urban wetlands in Melbourne's west and south east were sampled along a gradient of urbanisation. There was a significant negative relationship between total imperviousness (TI) and the abundance of aquatic invertebrates detected for sites in the west, but not in the south east. However macroinvertebrate communities were relatively homogenous both within and between all study wetlands. Chironomidae (non-biting midges) was the most abundant family recorded at the majority of sites. Chironomids are able to tolerate a wide array of environmental conditions, including eutrophic and anoxic conditions. Their prevalence suggests that water quality is impaired in these systems, regardless of degree of urbanisation, although the causal mechanism is unclear. These results show some dependency between receiving wetland condition and the degree of urbanisation of the catchment, but suggest that other factors may be as important in determining the value of urban wetlands as habitat for wildlife.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 1%
United States 2 1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 163 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 33 20%
Student > Bachelor 29 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 15%
Researcher 24 14%
Professor 9 5%
Other 20 12%
Unknown 29 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 56 33%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 34 20%
Engineering 18 11%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 6 4%
Social Sciences 5 3%
Other 9 5%
Unknown 41 24%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 June 2016.
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#3,537,958
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#4,667
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#43,298
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#31
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