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More than half of the world population lives in urban areas with projections showing a population increase up to 66% by 2050 (UN 2015). To accommodate the growing number of city dwellers, urban areas are expanding twice as fast as their population (e.g., Seto et al. 2012), raising concerns about sustainability and livability of cities. Given the increasing importance of urban areas in both driving and being impacted by global environmental changes, there is a rapidly growing interest in understanding their dynamics (Seto and Shepherd 2009).

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Valentina Marchionni and Edoardo Daly thank the support of the Australian Research Council and the City of Greater Dandenong and Moonee Valley City councils through the Linkage project LP150100901. Roberto Revelli acknowledges the support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement “ECO.G.U.S.—ECOsystem services for resilient and sustainable cities: an ecohydrological approach for Green Urban Spaces” (#701914).

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Marchionni, V., Revelli, R., Daly, E. (2019). Ecohydrology of Urban Ecosystems. In: D'Odorico, P., Porporato, A., Wilkinson Runyan, C. (eds) Dryland Ecohydrology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23269-6_20

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