The expansion of urban areas worldwide is increasing the anthropogenic impact upon soil
and highlights the important role of urban areas in supporting a sustainable future. As such …

An important element of the urban environment is soil, the balanced functioning of which
largely depends on the soil microbiome. The state of the microbiome can be identified by …

Urbanization coincides with remarkable environmental changes including vegetation, soil
and climate. An urban heat island is a well-known urban mesoclimatic anomaly, however its …

This paper describes the effect of urbanization on soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks by
projecting the main urban land cover classes over the initial pre-urban soil maps. Two cities …

Today, city planners design urban futures by considering environmental degradation and
climate mitigation. Here, we studied the greenhouse gas fluxes of urban lawns and …

Advancing towards sustainable cities needs a better understanding of all components of
urban ecosystems, including soils, but the biological component of urban soils remains …

Urban and technogenic landscapes in subarctic zones are not considered comfortable
habitats for soil microbiota. However, green infrastructures in polar cities can provide a new …

Urbanization in the Arctic results in considerable and still poorly known environmental
consequences. The effect of urbanization on soil microbiome—an ecosystem component …

Urbanization results to a wide spread of Technosols. Various materials are used for
Technosols' construction with a limited attention to their ecosystem services or disservices …

In an era of unprecedented human influence, different human activities have different
degrees of impact on specific bacteria, resulting in the regional biological homogenization of …