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Urban impacts on the ecology of receiving waters: a framework for assessment, conservation and restoration

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Walsh, C.J. Urban impacts on the ecology of receiving waters: a framework for assessment, conservation and restoration. Hydrobiologia 431, 107–114 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004029715627

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  • urbanization
  • stormwater run-off
  • catchment imperviousness
  • sewage
  • sewerage
  • drainage