RT Journal Article
T1 Soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces worldwide
A1 Liu, Yu Rong
A1 van der Heijden, Marcel
A1 Riedo, Judith
A1 Sanz Lazaro, Carlos
A1 Eldridge, David
A1 Bastida, Felipe
A1 Moreno Jiménez, Eduardo
A1 Zhou, Xin Quan
A1 Hu, Hang Wei
A1 He, Ji Zheng
A1 Moreno, José
A1 Abades, Sebastian
A1 Alfaro, Fernando
A1 Bamigboye, Adebola
A1 Berdugo Vega, Miguel
A1 Blanco Pastor, José
A1 de los Ríos, Asunción
A1 Duran, Jorge
A1 Grebenc, Tine
A1 Illán, Javier
A1 Makhalanyane, Thulani
A1 Molina Montenegro, Marco
A1 Nahberger, Tina
A1 Peñaloza Bojacá, Gabriel
A1 Plaza, César
A1 Rey Muñoz, Ana Isabel
A1 Rodríguez, Alexandra
A1 Siebe, Christina
A1 Teixido, Alberto
A1 Casado Coy, Nuria
A1 Trivedi, Pankaj
A1 Torres Díaz, Cristian
A1 Verma, Jay Prakash
A1 Mukherjee, Arpan
A1 Zeng, Xiao Min
A1 Wang, Ling
A1 Wang, Jianyong
A1 Zaady, Eli
A1 Zhou, Xiaobing
A1 Huang, Qiaoyun
A1 Tan, Wenfeng
A1 Zhu, Yong-Guan
A1 Rillig, Matthias
A1 Delgado Baquerizo, Manuel
AB Soil contamination is one of the main threats to ecosystem health and sustainability. Yet little is known about the extent to which soil contaminants differ between urban greenspaces and natural ecosystems. Here we show that urban greenspaces and adjacent natural areas (i.e., natural/semi-natural ecosystems) shared similar levels of multiple soil contaminants (metal(loid)s, pesticides, microplastics, and antibiotic resistance genes) across the globe. We reveal that human influence explained many forms of soil contamination worldwide. Socio-economic factors were integral to explaining the occurrence of soil contaminants worldwide. We further show that increased levels of multiple soil contaminants were linked with changes in microbial traits including genes associated with environmental stress resistance, nutrient cycling, and pathogenesis. Taken together, our work demonstrates that human-driven soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces globally, and highlights that soil contaminants have the potential to cause dire consequences for ecosystem sustainability and human wellbeing.
PB Nature Research
SN 2041-1723
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/89051
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/89051
LA eng
NO Liu, YR., van der Heijden, M.G.A., Riedo, J. et al. Soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces worldwide. Nat Commun 14, 1706 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37428-6
NO Fundación BBVA 
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
NO European Commission
NO Junta de Andalucía
NO National Natural Science Foundation of China
NO Swiss National Science Foundation
NO Hermon Slade Foundation
NO Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 
NO Fundación Séneca
NO Humboldt Foundation
NO Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo de Chile 
NO Australian Research Council
NO Slovenian Research Agency
NO National Research Foundation of South Africa
NO Banaras Hindu University
NO Ministry of Education (India)
DS Docta Complutense
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