Managing and adapting to climate change in urban areas will become increasingly
important as urban populations grow, especially because unique features of cities amplify …

Rapid industrialization and urbanization during recent decades are having dramatic effects
on urban soil properties and lead to large discharges of pollutants, which inevitably affect …

El suelo de zonas áridas y semiáridas es típicamente bajo en materia orgánica por la
escasa cubierta vegetal y limitada productividad. El escaso nitrógeno contenido en la …

The patterns of biodiversity changes in cities are now fairly well established, although
diversity changes in temperate cities are much better studied than cities in other climate …

The contamination of urban soils can affect the health of people living in urban areas, and
the surrounding ecosystems. Urbanization in China has taken place at an unprecedented …

Residential landscapes are a common setting of human-environment interactions. These
ubiquitous ecosystems provide social and ecological services, and yard maintenance leads …

Microbial communities in soils are generally considered to be limited by carbon (C), which
could be a crucial control for basic soil functions and responses of microbial heterotrophic …

Previous research has examined the influence of values on human-ecological decisions, yet
disparate approaches render inferences across studies difficult. In this paper, we present a …

ABSTRACT A diverse soil microbial community is involved in nitrogen cycling, and these
microbes can be affected by land management practices and weed invasion. We surveyed …

Urbanization alters watershed ecosystem functioning, including nutrient budgets and
processes of nutrient retention. It is unknown, however, how variation in stormwater …