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Eldridge, David J.
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Cui, Haiying
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Ding, Jingyi
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Berdugo, Miguel
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Saez-Sandino, Tadeo
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Duran, Jorge
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Gaitan, Juan J.
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Blanco-Pastor, Jose L.
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Rodriguez, Alexandra
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Plaza, Cesar
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Alfaro, Fernando
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Teixido, Alberto L.
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Abades, Sebastian
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Bamigboye, Adebola R.
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Penaloza-Bojaca, Gabriel F.
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Grebenc, Tine
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Nahberger, Tine U.
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Illan, Javier G.
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Liu, Yu-Rong
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Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter
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Rey, Ana
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Siebe, Christina
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Sun, Wei
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Trivedi, Pankaj
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Verma, Jay Prakash
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Wang, Ling
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Wang, Jianyong
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Wang, Tianxue
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Zaady, Eli
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Zhou, Xiaobing
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Zhou, Xin-Quan
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Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel
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dc.date.accessioned |
2024-05-13T09:04:53Z |
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dc.date.available |
2024-05-13T09:04:53Z |
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2024-03 |
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DATA AVAILABILITY : All the materials, raw data, and protocols used in the article are available upon request and without restriction, and all data will be made publicly available in a public repository (Figshare https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24873135.v1) upon publication. |
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Greenspaces are important for sustaining healthy urban environments and their human populations. Yet their capacity to support multiple ecosystem services simultaneously (multiservices) compared with nearby natural ecosystems remains virtually unknown. We conducted a global field survey in 56 urban areas to investigate the influence of urban greenspaces on 23 soil and plant attributes and compared them with nearby natural environments. We show that, in general, urban greenspaces and nearby natural areas support similar levels of soil multiservices, with only six of 23 attributes (available phosphorus, water holding capacity, water respiration, plant cover, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), and arachnid richness) significantly greater in greenspaces, and one (available ammonium) greater in natural areas. Further analyses showed that, although natural areas and urban greenspaces delivered a similar number of services at low (>25% threshold) and moderate (>50%) levels of functioning, natural systems supported significantly more functions at high (>75%) levels of functioning. Management practices (mowing) played an important role in explaining urban ecosystem services, but there were no effects of fertilisation or irrigation. Some services declined with increasing site size, for both greenspaces and natural areas. Our work highlights the fact that urban greenspaces are more similar to natural environments than previously reported and underscores the importance of managing urban greenspaces not only for their social and recreational values, but for supporting multiple ecosystem services on which soils and human well-being depends. |
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dc.description.department |
Biochemistry |
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dc.description.department |
Genetics |
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dc.description.department |
Microbiology and Plant Pathology |
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hj2024 |
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dc.description.sdg |
SDG-15:Life on land |
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Supported by a 2019 Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators, BBVA Foundation (URBANFUN); the BES grant agreement No LRB17\1019 (MUSGONET); the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for the I + D + i project PID2020-115813RA-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033; a project of the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) and the Consejería de Transformación Económica, Industria, Conocimiento y Universidades of the Junta de Andalucía; the Hermon Slade Foundation; the National Natural Science Foundation of China; the Young Science and Technology Talent Support Project of Jilin Province; Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by BAST; the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities; a Ramón y Cajal grant from Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation; FONDECYT; the EU’s H2020 research and innovation programme; FCT/MCTES through national funds (PIDDAC); the National Research Foundation of South Africa; the Slovenian Research Agency; the SERB, DST and Banaras Hindu University; the Program for Introducing Talents to Universities and the Ministry of Education Innovation Team Development Plan. |
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https://www.nature.com/npjurbansustain |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Eldridge, D.J., Cui, H., Ding, J. et al. Urban greenspaces and nearby natural areas support similar levels of soil ecosystem services. npj Urban Sustainability 4, 15 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-024-00154-z. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2661-8001 (online) |
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10.1038/s42949-024-00154-z |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/95913 |
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en |
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Nature Research |
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dc.rights |
© Crown 2024. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
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dc.subject |
Carbon cycle |
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Urban ecology |
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dc.subject |
SDG-15: Life on land |
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dc.title |
Urban greenspaces and nearby natural areas support similar levels of soil ecosystem services |
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dc.type |
Article |
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