Soil microbiomes in lawns reveal land-use legacy impacts on urban landscapes.

ABSTRACT: Land-use change is highly dynamic globally and there is great uncertainty about the effects of land-use legacies on contemporary environmental performance. We used a chronosequence of urban grasslands (lawns) that were converted from agricultural and forested lands from 10 to over 130 years prior to determine if land-use legacy influences components of soil biodiversity and composition over time. We used historical aerial imagery to identify sites in Baltimore County, MD (USA) with agricultural versus forest land-use history. Soil samples were taken from these sites as well as from existing well-studied agricultural and forest sites used as historical references by the National Science Foundation Long-Term Ecological Research Baltimore Ecosystem Study program. We found that the microbiomes

SUBMITTER: Thompson GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10307846 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature