Urban soils as hot spots of anthropogenic carbon accumulation: Review of stocks, mechanisms and driving factors

N fertilization decreases soil organic matter decomposition in the rhizosphere

(2016) Huadong Zang et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Micromorphological and physico-chemical analyses of cultural layers in the urban soil of a medieval city — A case study from Krakow, Poland

(2016) Ryszard Mazurek et al.   CATENA

Soil organic carbon distribution in roadside soils of Singapore

(2016) Subhadip Ghosh et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Pedogenic carbonates: Forms and formation processes

(2016) Kazem Zamanian et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Soil respiration contributes substantially to urban carbon fluxes in the greater Boston area

(2016) Stephen M. Decina et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Variability of soil organic carbon stocks and soil CO2 efflux across urban land use and soil cover types

(2016) L.F. Weissert et al.   GEODERMA

Global mapping of urban built-up areas of year 2014 by combining MODIS multispectral data with VIIRS nighttime light data

(2016) Ram C. Sharma et al.   International Journal of Digital Earth

Restoring Ecosystem Function in Degraded Urban Soil Using Biosolids, Biosolids Blend, and Compost

(2016) N. T. Basta et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

The importance of dust material in urban soil formation: the experience on study of two young Technosols on dust depositions

(2016) Tatiana V. Prokof’eva et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Changes of soil organic carbon stocks and CO2 emissions at the early stages of urban turf grasses’ development

(2016) A. S. Shchepeleva et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Soils and cultural layers of ancient cities in the south of European Russia

(2015) A. L. Aleksandrovskii et al.   EURASIAN SOIL SCIENCE

Organic matter of urban soils: A review

(2015) Yu. N. Vodyanitskii   EURASIAN SOIL SCIENCE

Land use and land cover changes explain spatial and temporal variations of the soil organic carbon stocks in a constructed urban park

(2015) Jeehwan Bae et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Urban Park Soil and Vegetation: Effects of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors

(2015) Pariente SARAH et al.   PEDOSPHERE

A Global Comparison of Surface Soil Characteristics Across Five Cities

(2015) Richard V. Pouyat et al.   SOIL SCIENCE

Influence of asphalt pavement construction processes on urban soil formation in Tokyo

(2015) Kimihiro Kida et al.   SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION

Formation, characteristics and eco-environmental implications of urban soils – A review

(2015) Jin-Ling Yang et al.   SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION

Managing soil carbon stocks to enhance the resilience of urban ecosystems

(2015) Klaus Lorenz et al.   Carbon Management

Selection and screening of microbial consortia for efficient and ecofriendly degradation of plastic garbage collected from urban and rural areas of Bangalore, India

(2014) Sinosh Skariyachan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

How to map soil organic carbon stocks in highly urbanized regions?

(2014) V.I. Vasenev et al.   GEODERMA

The impact of the soil sealing degree on microbial biomass, enzymatic activity, and physicochemical properties in the Ekranic Technosols of Toruń (Poland)

(2014) Anna Piotrowska-Długosz et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Ecosystem services provided by soils of urban, industrial, traffic, mining, and military areas (SUITMAs)

(2014) Jean Louis Morel et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Density and Stability of Soil Organic Carbon beneath Impervious Surfaces in Urban Areas

(2014) Zongqiang Wei et al.   PLoS One

Biochar stability in soil: Decomposition during eight years and transformation as assessed by compound-specific 14C analysis

(2014) Yakov Kuzyakov et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Urban soil organic carbon and its spatial heterogeneity in comparison with natural and agricultural areas in the Moscow region

(2013) V.I. Vasenev et al.   CATENA

The development of approaches to assess the soil organic carbon pools in megapolises and small settlements

(2013) V. I. Vasenev et al.   EURASIAN SOIL SCIENCE

Properties of soils and soil-like bodies in the Vorkuta area

(2013) A. A. Dymov et al.   EURASIAN SOIL SCIENCE

Biochar and Biosolids Increase Tree Growth and Improve Soil Quality for Urban Landscapes

(2013) Bryant C. Scharenbroch et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Reaching for a sustainable, resilient urban future using the lens of ecosystem services

(2012) Åsa Jansson   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Classifying and valuing ecosystem services for urban planning

(2012) Erik Gómez-Baggethun et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Depleted soil carbon and nitrogen pools beneath impervious surfaces

(2012) Steve M. Raciti et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Carbon storage and fluxes in existing and newly created urban soils

(2012) Luke Beesley   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Investigating carbonate formation in urban soils as a method for capture and storage of atmospheric carbon

(2012) C.-L. Washbourne et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Application of char products improves urban soil quality

(2012) S. GHOSH et al.   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

Sustainable urban greening strategies for compact cities in developing and developed economies

(2012) C. Y. Jim   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Inconsistent definitions of “urban” result in different conclusions about the size of urban carbon and nitrogen stocks

(2011) Steve M. Raciti et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Classification of Moscow soils and parent materials and its possible inclusion in the classification system of Russian soils

(2011) T. V. Prokofyeva et al.   EURASIAN SOIL SCIENCE

A life cycle approach to the management of household food waste – A Swedish full-scale case study

(2011) A. Bernstad et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Carbon budgeting in golf course soils of Central Ohio

(2011) Adam L. Selhorst et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

A framework for classifying and quantifying the natural capital and ecosystem services of soils

(2010) Estelle Dominati et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Soils and cultural layers in Velikii Novgorod

(2010) A. V. Dolgikh et al.   EURASIAN SOIL SCIENCE

Urban ecological systems: Scientific foundations and a decade of progress

(2010) S.T.A. Pickett et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Observed and projected climate shifts 1901-2100 depicted by world maps of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification

(2010) Franz Rubel et al.   METEOROLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT

Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition

(2010) I. A. Janssens et al.   Nature Geoscience

Effect of land use history and site factors on spatial variation of soil organic carbon across a physiographic region

(2009) C.J.E. Schulp et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

A new map of global urban extent from MODIS satellite data

(2009) A Schneider et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A review of heavy metal contaminations in urban soils, urban road dusts and agricultural soils from China

(2009) Binggan Wei et al.   MICROCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Durations of soil formation and soil development indices in a Holocene Mediterranean floodplain

(2009) Christoph Zielhofer et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Harmonized soil profile data for applications at global and continental scales: updates to the WISE database

(2009) N. H. Batjes   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

NITROGEN RETENTION IN URBAN LAWNS AND FORESTS

(2008) S. M. Raciti et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Biogeochemical C and N cycles in urban soils

(2008) K LORENZ et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Diagnostic indicators for characterizing urban soils of Szeged, Hungary

(2008) I. Puskás et al.   GEODERMA

SUITMA—soils in urban, industrial, traffic, mining and military areas

(2008) Jean-Louis Morel et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

(2008) N. B. Grimm et al.   SCIENCE

Methods for estimating types of soil organic carbon and their application to surveys of UK urban areas

(2008) B. G. Rawlins et al.   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

A comparison of soil organic carbon stocks between residential turf grass and native soil

(2008) Richard V. Pouyat et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS