Urbanization drives convergence in soil profile texture and carbon content.

ABSTRACT: Urban development has driven extensive modification of the global landscape. This shift in land use and land cover alters ecological functioning, and thereby affects sustainable management agendas. Urbanization fundamentally reshapes the soils that underlay landscapes, and throughout the soil profile, extends impacts of urbanization far below the landscape surface. The impacts of urbanization on deeper soils that are beyond the reach of regular land management are largely unknown, and validation of general theories of convergent ecosystem properties are thwarted by a dearth of both level of measurement effort and the substantial heterogeneity in soils and urban landscapes. Here, we examined two soil properties with strong links to ecological functioning-carbon and mineral-fraction particle

SUBMITTER: Herrmann DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7898117 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature