An assessment of the condition of flowing waters in predominantly urban areas of the conterminous US and its relationship to measures of environmental justice

AT Herlihy, KL Kuntz, DJ Benkendorf, S Holdsworth - Urban Ecosystems, 2024 - Springer
Urbanization often leads to environmental degradation and there is a growing concern that
these impacts are inequitably distributed. We assessed the condition of urban flowing waters …

Metropolitan pressures: Significant biodiversity declines and strong filtering of functional traits in fish assemblages

S Zhang, A Zhan, J Zhao, M Yao - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Accelerating global urbanization is leading to drastic losses and restructuring of biodiversity.
Although it is crucial to understand urban impacts on biodiversity to develop mitigation …

Freshwater fish functional diversity shows diverse responses to human activities, but consistently declines in the tropics

RGSF Lima, BE Soares, M Cadotte, MP Albrecht - 2024 - ecoevorxiv.org
Freshwater environments are intertwined with human activities and the consequence has
been environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. Fish provide key ecological and …