Buildings, roads and parking areas, and the little vegetation in our cities makes them warmer when compared to rural areas. Thus, our cities are also heat islands.
Urban streams reflect this condition. They have warmer temperatures as well, which affect aquatic biota and ecosystem function.
Our preliminary data shows how urban streams reflect the warmer urban environment.
We set up temperature sensors in the water and in the riparian zone to best understand how urbanization is affecting temperature regimes in these ecosystems.
Our work is part of the PRCEN program, which studies neurobiological responses by organisms to their environment and to contaminants.
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