Streetscape biodiversity and the role of bioretention swales in an Australian urban environment

Kazemi, Fatemeh; Beecham, Simon; Gibbs, Joan

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.02.006

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“…These previous results confirm that a diverse vegetation structure enhances urban habitat heterogeneity and is also a major factor that positively influences habitat resources for invertebrates (Hercock 1997;Hermy and Cornelis 2000;Savard et al 2000;Fernández-Juricic and Jokimäki 2001;Young and Jarvis 2001;Honnay et al 2003;Livingston et al 2003;Cornelis and Hermy 2004;Jackson and Boutle 2008;Tzoulas and James 2009;Viol et al 2009;Dvorak and Volder 2010;Coffman and Waite 2011;Kazemi et al 2011;Moore 2011;Moore and Hunt 2012;Iswoyo et al 2013;Briers 2014;Beumer and Martens 2015;Van Mechelen et al 2015;Voigt and Wurster 2015). Consequently, vegetation structure diversity in vegetated SuDS systems has a key role to play in offering more resources and opportunities to different organisms within an ecosystem, which is compatible with the ecological niche theory (Cain et al 2011).…”

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“…Whilst biodiversity analysis can involve examination of many different variables (Jackson and Boutle 2008;Viol et al 2009;Kazemi et al 2011;Moore and Hunt 2012;Briers 2014;Rooney et al 2015), the vegetation structure cover-abundance examination allows coarse-scale assessments to be made, providing information on biodiversity and subsequent ecosystem services of an area (Iswoyo et al 2013;Peh et al 2013;Uzomah et al 2014;Voigt and Wurster 2015).…”

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Sustainable drainage system site assessment method using urban ecosystem services

2016

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The United Kingdom's recently updated approach to sustainable drainage enhanced biodiversity and amenity objectives by incorporating the ecosystem approach and the ecosystem services concept. However, cost-effective and reliable methods to appraise the biodiversity and amenity values of potential sustainable drainage system (SuDS) sites and their surrounding areas are still lacking, as is a method to enable designers to distinguish and link the amenity and biodiversity benefits that SuDS schemes can offer. In this paper, therefore, the authors propose two ecosystem services-and disservicesbased methods (i.e. vegetation structure cover-abundance examination and cultural ecosystem services and disservices variables appraisal) to aid SuDS designers to distinguish and link amenity and biodiversity benefits, and allow initial site assessments to be performed in a cost-effective and reliable fashion. Forty-nine representative sites within Greater Manchester were selected to test the two methods. Amenity and biodiversity were successfully assessed and habitat for species, carbon sequestration, recreation and education ecosystem services scores were produced, which will support SuDS retrofit design decision-making. Large vegetated SuDS sites with permanent aquatic features were found to be most capable of enhancing biodiversity-and amenity-related ecosystem services. Habitat for species and recreation ecosystem services were also found to be positively linked to each other. Finally, waste bins on site were found to help reduce dog faeces and litter coverage. Overall, the findings presented here enable future SuDS retrofit designs to be more wildlife friendly and socially inclusive.

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Sustainable drainage system site assessment method using urban ecosystem services

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“…Bioretention systems in urban Australia have shown to support greater diversity and species richness than both lawn and garden bed-type green spaces in the same area [75,76]. These studies found bioretention had a significant increase in plant and invertebrates taxa, both of which are used as indicators of aquatic ecosystem health.…”

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Review and Research Needs of Bioretention Used for the Treatment of Urban Stormwater

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Abstract:The continued development of urban areas in recent decades has caused multiple issues affecting the sustainability of urban drainage systems. The increase of impervious surface areas in urban regions alters watershed hydrology and water quality. Typical impacts to downstream hydrologic regimes include higher peak flows and runoff volumes, shorter lag times, and reduced infiltration and base flow. Urban runoff increases the transport of pollutants and nutrients and thus degrades water bodies downstream from urban areas. One of the most frequently used practices to mitigate these impacts is bioretention. Despite its widespread use, research on bioretention systems remains active, particularly in terms of mix design and nitrogen treatment. Recent research focusing on bioretention is reviewed herein. The use of mesocosms provides the ability to isolate particular treatment processes and replicate variability. Computational models have been adapted and applied to simulate bioretention, offering potential improvements to their operation, maintenance, and design. Maintenance practices are important for sustained operation and have also been reviewed. Predicting maintenance is essential to assessing lifecycle costs. Within these research areas, gaps are explored, and recommendations made for future work.

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“…Efficiency of green roofs to retain varying amount of rainfall of up to 100% depends on depth of the substrate cover, slope and vegetation type of the roof. Similarly, Kazemi et al [25] reported competence of bio swales on storm water retention in Australia. Rainwater harvesting using rain gardens act as modifier in risk-based land-use planning, as part of urban flood mitigation process.…”

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Celebrating Urban Water, Nature and Ecological Processes to Mitigate Urban Risk

Mukherjee¹

2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Water historically facilitated cities to survive, sustain, celebrate and create distinguished identities. This can offer livelihood, wisdom, culture, entertainment, sensibility, and most importantly nature connect, be it river, lake, pond, stream or fountain. Diminishing qualitative and quantitative presence of water bring rising crisis and risks to cities in the recent period. This paper explores whether, in addition to multiple eco system services (ESS), urban water can provide urban risk mitigation while celebrating nature connect and natural ecological processes. Green Infrastructure (GI) offers ESS as complementary service to engineering Infrastructure. Its potential as an urban risk mitigation tool is attracting urban authorities to use it as a resiliency tool. The Green Resilient Infrastructure (GRI) can help towards social, economic and environmental sustainability with the additional advantage of mitigation. Urban water management through GRI can resolve problemslike flooding, water scarcity and other associated problems like urban heat island (UHI), pollution, etc. India's urban growth rate is unprecedented now and cannot offer quality living standards; there is an opportunity to make substantial improvement to this deteriorating urban climate using GRIs. The paper reviews the issue further into policy and refers to two Asian initiatives. In Kyoto City, successive landscape policy formulation and implementation has helped the city to preserve water as an essential urban element, and to mark celebrations with its pristine rivers. The city is now equated with most sought-after urban living quarternestled within nature; and visibility of urban waters add beauty and safety both. China's sponge city mission is another case where struggling cities are relying on water-based GIs to convert them into GRIs to survive and celebrate urban lives. Both these cases are learning lesson for emerging countries like India and every city has a future with water to celebrate and manage risks.

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Streetscape biodiversity and the role of bioretention swales in an Australian urban environment

Cited by 119 publications

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Sustainable drainage system site assessment method using urban ecosystem services

Sustainable drainage system site assessment method using urban ecosystem services

Review and Research Needs of Bioretention Used for the Treatment of Urban Stormwater

Celebrating Urban Water, Nature and Ecological Processes to Mitigate Urban Risk

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