20.500.12556/DiRROS-18732 Urban greenspaces and nearby natural areas support similar levels of soil ecosystem services Greenspaces 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. We show that, in general, urban greenspaces and nearby natural areas support similar levels of soil multiservices, with only six of 23 attributes (available phosphorus, water holding capacity, water respiration, plant cover, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), and arachnid richness) significantly greater in greenspaces, and one (available ammonium) greater in natural areas. Further analyses showed that, although natural areas and urban greenspaces delivered a similar number of services at low (>25% threshold) and moderate (>50%) levels of functioning, natural systems supported significantly more functions at high (>75%) levels of functioning. Management practices (mowing) played an important role in explaining urban ecosystem services, but there were no effects of fertilisation or irrigation. Some services declined with increasing site size, for both greenspaces and natural areas. Our work highlights the fact that urban greenspaces are more similar to natural environments than previously reported and underscores the importance of managing urban greenspaces not only for their social and recreational values, but for supporting multiple ecosystem services on which soils and human well-being depends. soil ecosystem services urban forests ekosistemske storitve zelene površine urbani gozdovi tla true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2024-04-17 19:46:52 2024-04-17 19:46:53 2024-04-18 03:46:11 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2024 0 0 Nasl. z nasl. zaslona; Opis vira z dne 15. 4. 2024; Skupno št. avtorjev: 32; Avtorja iz Slovenije: T. Grebenc, T. U. Nahberger; str. 1-9 15 Vol. 4 2024 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2024-01-01 630*1:630*9 2661-8001 10.1038/s42949-024-00154-z 192594947 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-024-00154-z#citeas 1 b1a4c865-fcd1-11ee-ae20-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=25627 RAZ_Eldridge_David_J._2024.pdf RAZ_Eldridge_David_J._2024.pdf 1 097138F519633B0109CF276D43921E41 675b0ea6ed14d0040106e675c32f0f7bf5c6b866bfc6cab1b9a01a2c3259658a decd363a-fcd1-11ee-ae20-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=25629 Gozdarski inštitut Slovenije 0 0 0