[HTML][HTML] Urban green spaces and sustainability: Exploring the ecosystem services and disservices of grassy lawns versus floral meadows

S Paudel, SL States - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban green spaces provide important ecological, environmental, and cultural benefits,
including biodiversity conservation and human wellbeing. However, a significant portion of …

[HTML][HTML] Soil biodiversity integrates solutions for a sustainable future

EM Bach, KS Ramirez, TD Fraser, DH Wall - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Soils are home to more than 25% of the earth's total biodiversity and supports life on land
and water, nutrient cycling and retention, food production, pollution remediation, and climate …

A global horizon scan for urban evolutionary ecology

BC Verrelli, M Alberti, S Des Roches, NC Harris… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Research on the evolutionary ecology of urban areas reveals how human-induced
evolutionary changes affect biodiversity and essential ecosystem services. In a rapidly …

Metagenomic insights into nitrogen and phosphorus cycling at the soil aggregate scale driven by organic material amendments

X Wu, J Peng, P Liu, Q Bei, C Rensing, Y Li… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The soil microbiome, existing as interconnected communities closely associated with soil
aggregates, is the key driver in nutrient cycling. However, the underlying genomic …

Watershed urbanization enhances the enrichment of pathogenic bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes on microplastics in the water environment

H Li, Q Luo, S Zhao, P Zhao, X Yang, Q Huang… - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) serve as vectors for microorganisms and antibiotic resistance genes
(ARGs) and contribute to the spread of pathogenic bacteria and ARGs across various …

Biotic homogenisation and differentiation as directional change in beta diversity: synthesising driver–response relationships to develop conceptual models across …

RJ Rolls, DC Deane, SE Johnson, J Heino… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biotic homogenisation is defined as decreasing dissimilarity among ecological assemblages
sampled within a given spatial area over time. Biotic differentiation, in turn, is defined as …

Fungal communities decline with urbanization—more in air than in soil

N Abrego, B Crosier, P Somervuo, N Ivanova… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Increasing evidence suggests that degradation of biodiversity in human populated areas is a
threat for the ecosystem processes that are relevant for human well-being. Fungi are a …

[图书][B] Darwin comes to town: How the urban jungle drives evolution

M Schilthuizen - 2019 - books.google.com
From evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen, a book that will make you see yourself and
the world around you in an entirely new way* Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai …

Urbanization and edge effects interact to drive mutualism breakdown and the rise of unstable pathogenic communities in forest soil

C Tatsumi, KF Atherton, SM Garvey… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Temperate forests are threatened by urbanization and fragmentation, with over
20%(118,300 km2) of US forest land projected to be subsumed by urban land development …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing soil biodiversity to promote human health in cities

X Sun, C Liddicoat, A Tiunov, B Wang, Y Zhang… - npj Urban …, 2023 - nature.com
Biodiversity is widely linked to human health, however, connections between human health
and soil biodiversity in urban environments remain poorly understood. Here, we stress that …