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

Chris Walsh is a research fellow with the Water Studies Centre, Monash University – part of the Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology. His work, primarily funded by the Melbourne Water Corporation, aims to provide an improved ecological basis for management of urban waters. He is currently working on the effects of urbanization on in-stream nutrient processes and aquatic biological diversity. Introduction

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