1. Soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces worldwide
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Yu-Rong Liu, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Judith Riedo, Carlos Sanz-Lazaro, David J. Eldridge, Felipe Bastida, Eduardo Moreno-Jiménez, Xin-Quan Zhou, Hang-Wei Hu, Ji-Zheng He, José L. Moreno, Sebastian Abades, Fernando Alfaro, Adebola R. Bamigboye, Miguel Berdugo, José L. Blanco-Pastor, Asunción de los Ríos, Jorge Duran, Tine Grebenc, Javier G. Illán, Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Marco A. Molina-Montenegro, Tina U. Nahberger, Gabriel F. Peñaloza-Bojacá, César Plaza, Ana Rey, Alexandra Rodríguez, Christina Siebe, Alberto L. Teixido, Nuria Casado-Coy, Pankaj Trivedi, Cristian Torres-Díaz, Jay Prakash Verma, Arpan Mukherjee, Xiao-Min Zeng, Ling Wang, Jianyong Wang, Eli Zaady, Xiaobing Zhou, Qiaoyun Huang, Wenfeng Tan, Yong-Guan Zhu, Matthias C. Rillig, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ecología, Gestión de Ecosistemas y de la Biodiversidad (GEB), Bioquímica Aplicada/Applied Biochemistry (AppBiochem), Fundación BBVA, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), European Commission, Junta de Andalucía, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Swiss National Science Foundation, Hermon Slade Foundation, Fundación Seneca, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (Chile), Australian Research Council, National Research Foundation (South Africa), Slovenian Research Agency, Ministry of Education India, Liu, Yurong, van der Heijden, Marcel G. A., Riedo, Judith, Sanz-Lázaro, Carlos, Eldridge, David J., Bastida, F., Moreno-Jiménez, E., Hu, Hang-Wei, He, Ji-Zheng, Moreno, J. L., Abades, Sebastián, Alfaro, Fernando D., Berdugo, Miguel, Ríos, Asunción de los, Durán, Jorge, Grebenc, Tine, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Plaza de Carlos, César, Rey, Ana, Rodríguez-Pereiras, Alexandra, Siebe, Christina, Teixido, Alberto L., Trivedi, Pankaj, Casado-Coy, Nuria, Torres-Díaz, Cristian, Verma, Jay Prakash, Zeng, Xiao-Min, Wang, Jianyong, Zaady, Eli, Huang, Qiaoyun, Zhu, Yong-Guan, Rillig, Matthias C., and Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel
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onesnaženje tal ,Multidisciplinary ,General Physics and Astronomy ,onesnaženje tal, urbani gozdovi ,General Chemistry ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Nearby natural areas mirrors ,Soil contamination ,soil contamination, urban greenspaces ,urbani gozdovi ,Ecosystem sustainability ,udc:630*1 ,udc:630*114 ,Urban greenspaces - Abstract
12 páginas.- 3 figuras.- 56 referencias.- Supplementary information The online version contains supplementary material available at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37428-6, 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., This study was supported by a 2019 Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators, BBVA Foundation (URBANFUN), and by the BES grant agreement No LRB17\1019 (MUSGONET). We are grateful for the assistance of Yunyun Hao and Xuemei Han during soil sampling. We also thank Drs. Shuai Du and Xiuli Hao for their help in data analyses. M. D-B. is supported by the projects from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2020-115813RA-I00) (SOIL4GROWTH) and TED2021-130908B-C41 (URBANCHANGE) funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, and 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 (FEDER Andalucía 2014-2020 Objetivo temático “01 - Refuerzo de la investigación, el desarrollo tecnológico y la innovación”) associated with the research project P20_00879 (ANDABIOMA). Y-R. L. is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42177022). M.G.A.H is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (310030_188799). D.J.E. is supported by the Hermon Slade Foundation. F.B. and J.L.M. acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministry and FEDER funds for the project AGL2017-85755-R, the I+D+i project PID2020-114942RB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/ 501100011033, the i-LINK+2018 (LINKA20069) from CSIC, as well as funds from “Fundación Séneca” from Murcia Province (19896/GERM/15). E.M.-J. was supported by an Experienced Researcher Fellowship of the Humboldt Foundation. E.M-J. and C.P. acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2020-116578RB-I00). F.A. is supported by ANID FONDECYT 1220358. H-W.H. and J-Z.H. are supported by the project (DP210100332) from Australian Research Council. S.A. is funded by ANID FONDECYT 1170995 and ANID ANILLO ACT192027. MB is supported by a Ramón y Cajal grant from Spanish Ministry of Science (RYC2021-031797-I). The contribution of TG and TUN was supported by the Research Program in Forest Biology, Ecology and Technology (P4-0107) and project V4-3098 of the Slovenian Research Agency. T.P.M. would like to acknowledge contributions from the National Research Foundation of South Africa and cities involved in the South African survey. J.D. and A. Rey acknowledge support from the FCT (IF/00950/2014 and SFRH/BDP/108913/2015, respectively). JPV is thankful to SERB (EEQ/2021/001083) and DST (DST/INT/SL/P-31/2021) and BHU-IoE (6031)-incentive grant for research and development. MCR acknowledges support from an ERC Advanced Grant (694368). AM acknowledged financial support from the PMRF, Ministry of Education - Government of India, India.
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