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Green Infrastructure and Resilient Stream Ecosystems

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 6734

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Sang-Woo Lee

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Department of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea
Interests: landscape ecological planning; landscape ecology; spatial analysis; ecological restoration
Dr. Christopher D. Ellis

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Landscape Architecture Program, The University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Interests: landscape performance; sustainable development; landscape ecology; spatial analysis; environmental perception; information technology for landscape planning and design

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Stream ecosystems across the world have been under increasing pressure of impairment of structure and function due to climate change, frequent extreme weather events (droughts and flooding), human disturbances, intensified land uses, and land transformations in watersheds and riparian areas at various spatiotemporal scales. To sustain the structure and function of stream ecosystems, enhancing the resilience of stream ecosystems is essential in stream management and restoration. One of promising approaches to enhance the resilience of stream ecosystems can be integrating green infrastructure with stream corridors in human occupied areas. This Special Issue highlights the relationships between green infrastructure and resilient stream ecosystems. We invite papers from a range of topics dealing with integrating green infrastructure and stream ecosystems.       

Topics may include:

  • Roles of structure and function of riparian vegetation on stream ecosystems
  • Biological assessment of stream ecosystems
  • Index for green infrastructure
  • Index to measure the resilience of stream ecosystems
  • Relationships between green infrastructure and stream ecosystems at various spatiotemporal scales
  • Stream management and restoration for enhancing resilience of stream ecosystems
  • Roles of social-cultural aspects (e.g., policy, perception, history, education) on the relationship between green infrastructure and stream ecosystems
  • Relationships between watershed vegetation land cover and stream water quality

Papers addressing conceptual or empirical strategies, and methods dealing with the way to integrate green infrastructure and resilient stream ecosystems are particularly welcome. The overall aim of this Special Issue is to advance our knowledge of how green infrastructure can be utilized in enhancing the resilience of steam ecosystems to respond to various increasing stressors.

Prof. Dr. Sang-Woo Lee
Dr. Christopher D. Ellis
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • stream resilience
  • stream restoration
  • green infrastructure
  • vegetation cover
  • riparian vegetation
  • aquatic ecosystems

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The Application of a Fish-Based Multi-Metric Index for the Assessment of Ecological Qualities of Estuaries in the Korean Peninsula
by Jun-Wan Kim, Kyu-Jin Kim, Beom-Myeong Choi, Kyung-Lak Lee, Min-Ho Jang and Ju-Duk Yoon
Sustainability 2022, 14(18), 11608; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su141811608 - 15 Sep 2022
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Brackish water zones are areas with high ecological conservation value. In this study, 325 river estuaries in the Korean peninsula in individual sea areas (West Sea, South Sea, and East Sea) were divided into types of estuaries (upstream and downstream of open estuaries, [...] Read more.
Brackish water zones are areas with high ecological conservation value. In this study, 325 river estuaries in the Korean peninsula in individual sea areas (West Sea, South Sea, and East Sea) were divided into types of estuaries (upstream and downstream of open estuaries, closed estuaries) through the assessment of the health of the estuary aquatic ecosystems and fish communities were identified. An ecological assessment was carried out using the Korea Estuary Fish Assessment Index (KEFAI). The number of species increased as the size of the river increased in the case of small estuaries but gradually decreased in the case of large estuaries. In the closed estuaries, the relative abundances (RAs) of primary freshwater fish were the highest; however, in the open estuaries, the RAs of estuary fish were the highest. Non-metric dimensional analysis results suggested that there was a clear difference between the fish assemblages in the closed and open estuaries. The overall results of this study were that the RA of tolerant species was higher, and KEFAI was lower in closed estuaries than in open estuaries, indicating the negative effects of the construction of transverse structures on fish assemblages. The health of these estuarine ecosystems can be improved by addressing these negative effects. Full article
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Correlation Analysis between Hydrologic Flow Metrics and Benthic Macroinvertebrates Index (BMI) in the Han River Basin, South Korea
by Siyeon Kim, Jiwan Lee, Seol Jeon, Moonyoung Lee, Heejin An, Kichul Jung, Seongjoon Kim and Daeryong Park
Sustainability 2021, 13(20), 11477; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su132011477 - 17 Oct 2021
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In aquatic ecosystems, flow is one of the most essential elements of aquatic species. It is necessary to explore the correlation with ecological indices for the management guidelines of aquatic ecosystems using flow because aquatic ecosystem data are limited. This study calculated the [...] Read more.
In aquatic ecosystems, flow is one of the most essential elements of aquatic species. It is necessary to explore the correlation with ecological indices for the management guidelines of aquatic ecosystems using flow because aquatic ecosystem data are limited. This study calculated the flow metrics using the flow and analyzed the correlation between the flow metrics and the ecological index. This study attempted to understand the correlation between the ecologic index and flow metrics. Flow metrics were quantified flow in various ways, depending on the size, frequency, and design of the flow. The characteristics of flow metrics were identified and the correlation with the ecological index was studied. The Pearson correlation coefficient values for 22 watersheds were compared using the flow data from 2008 to 2015 and the ecological index data from the BMI. In watersheds with high imperviousness, the Pearson correlation coefficient was negative, which indicated that the correlation in this study provides basic data for the quantitative evaluation of the river ecosystem by identifying the relationship between imperviousness and BMI. As a result, the highest Pearson correlation coefficient values of flow metrics were related to the flow coefficient of variation (MACV13-16; MHCV; MLCV). Full article
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Identifying Key Watershed Characteristics That Affect the Biological Integrity of Streams in the Han River Watershed, Korea
by Se-Rin Park, Soon-Jin Hwang, Kyungjin An and Sang-Woo Lee
Sustainability 2021, 13(6), 3359; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13063359 - 18 Mar 2021
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Understanding the complex human and natural processes that occur in watersheds and stream ecosystems is critical for decision makers and planners to ensure healthy stream ecosystems. This study aims to characterize the Han River watershed in Korea and extract key relationships among watershed [...] Read more.
Understanding the complex human and natural processes that occur in watersheds and stream ecosystems is critical for decision makers and planners to ensure healthy stream ecosystems. This study aims to characterize the Han River watershed in Korea and extract key relationships among watershed attributes and biological indicators of streams using principal component analysis (PCA) and self-organizing maps (SOM). This study integrated watershed attributes and biological indicators of streams to delineate the watershed and stream biological status. Results from PCA strongly suggested that the proportions of watershed and riparian land use are key factors that explain the total variance in the datasets. Forest land in the watershed appeared to be the most significant factor. Furthermore, SOM planes showed that the biological indicators of streams have strong positive relationships with forest land, well-drained soil, and slope, whereas they have inverse relationships with urban areas, agricultural areas, and poorly drained soil. Hierarchical clustering classified the watersheds into three clusters, exclusively located in the study areas depending on the degree of forest, urban, and agricultural areas. The findings of this study suggest that different management strategies should be established depending on the characteristics of a cluster to improve the biological condition of streams. Full article
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