Urban areas are particularly affected by pluvial flooding caused by heavy rainfall. To protect humans against flooding, ecosystems can provide important natural flood-regulating functions as services, so-called ecosystem ...

The concept of ecosystem service (ES) identifies benefits that people obtain from ecosystems with contributions to human well-being. One important ES under external pressure is “flood regulation” that describes an ecosystem’s ...

Urban areas are mostly highly sealed spaces, which often leads to large proportions of surface runoff. At the same time, heavy rainfall events are projected to increase in frequency and intensity with anthropogenic climate ...