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Understanding the Relationship Between Urban Best Management Practices and Ecosystem Services

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Supervisors

 
Kelsey McDonough
Kelsey McDonough
Position:

PhD student, Kansas State University

Research interests:
  • Low impact development
  • Urban stormwater engineering
  • Watershed management
  • Ecosystem services
  • Hydrologic modeling
Contact:
krmcdonofoo@ksu.edu
Dr. Stacy Hutchinson
Dr. Stacy Hutchinson, PhD
Position:

Professor, Kansas State University

Research interests:
  • Natural resources conservation engineering
  • Vegetated systems
  • Mitigation of non-point source pollution
  • Remediation of contaminated soil and water
  • Sustainable urban stormwater runoff systems
  • Improving water quality on military maneuver grounds
Contact:
sllhutchfoo@ksu.edu
785-532-2943
Dr. Trisha Moore
Dr. Trisha Moore, PhD
Position:

Assistant Professor, Kansas State University

Research interests:
  • Ecological engineering
  • Optimization of natural systems
  • Ecosystem services
  • Green infrastructure
  • Wetlands
Contact:
tlcmoorefoo@ksu.edu
785-532-2911
 

Timeline

August 2014 - December 2015


ABSTRACT

Increasing attentiveness to climate change and the dependence of human life on natural resources has spurred awareness about the detrimental impacts of human activity on the environment. Ecosystem services, or the benefits that humans derive from ecosystems, have changed more in the past 50 years than in any other comparable period in human history (Carpenter et al., 2009). The dilemma of managing the trade-off between immediate human needs and maintaining the ability of the Earth to provide ecosystem services is considered to be one of the largest challenges of this century (Foley et al., 2005). The ecosystem service concept aims to maximize the provision of services across an entire ecosystem to achieve overall ecosystem health through land management, policy, and economic decisions. The intent of this research was to improve such decisions by increasing the understanding about the relationship between urban best management practices and freshwater provision, erosion regulation, and flood regulation ecosystem services. Fifty-six land management scenarios with varying densities of BMP application were simulated using the Stormwater Management Model (SWMM). The ecosystem services resulting from these land management scenarios were quantified using indices developed by Logsdon and Chaubey (2013). Results demonstrate that the application of bioretention cells improve both freshwater provision and erosion regulation services immediately downstream from the implementation site, and an increase in erosion regulation services was observed at the greater watershed scale. There was no change in the provision of freshwater, erosion regulation, or flood regulation services observed by the application of green roofs or rain barrels at either scale of analysis.


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