Tadeo Saez-Sandino

Mar 15, 2024 | nature.com | David Eldridge |Jingyi Ding |Tadeo Saez-Sandino |Alexandra Rodriguez |César Plaza |Alberto L. Teixido | +8 more

AbstractGreenspaces 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.

Oct 3, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Tadeo Saez-Sandino |Antonio Gallardo |David Eldridge |Asmeret Asefaw Berhe

1 INTRODUCTION Topsoil organic matter (SOM) is the foundation for multiple ecosystem services such as food production, carbon (C) sequestration and water regulation (Kopittke et al., 2022). As soils develop over centuries to millions of years (pedogenesis), progressive declines in ecosystem properties (e.g., net primary productivity, rates of nutrient cycling, etc.) have been observed across systems and termed “ecosystem retrogression” (Peltzer et al., 2010).