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Urban Soil’s Functions: Monitoring, Assessment, and Management

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Adaptive Soil Management : From Theory to Practices

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Urbanization is a key trend of current land-use change, responsible for large environmental changes worldwide. Sustainable functioning of urban ecosystems is a priority goal of today and nearest future. Urban soil is a key component of urban ecosystems. Urban soils are formed and exist under predominant direct and indirect effect of anthropogenic factor. Urbanization was traditionally related to negative impacts on soils, whereas the capacity of urban soils to perform environmental functions is poorly understood. Traditional approaches to assess and standardize soil quality through static parameters and health thresholds give limited information on soil living phase and its dynamics. Quantifying urban soils’ functions directly relates soil quality to the role of soil for environment and society, that is especially relevant in urban ecosystems. This chapter aims to overview existing approaches to monitor and assess soil functions for a specific case of urban soils. Individual functions (i.e., gas exchange and carbon sequestration, bioresources, remediation, etc.) are observed over variety of bioclimatic conditions and for different levels of anthropogenic disturbance. Assessment results are further implemented to develop guidelines and best management practices to construct and treat urban soils for maintaining their functions and quality.

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The research was partly supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Projects Nos. 15-34-70003, 15-04-00915 and 15-54-53117 and the Russian Science Foundation Project No 16-16-04014. The authors thank Anna Shchepeleva, Dmitry Sarzhanov, Julia Sotnikova, and Ilia Mazirov for providing the field data, Sara Perl Egendorf and Sofia Rogovaya for the assistance in editing, and Prof. Ivan Vasenev for valuable suggestions and useful comments.

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  2. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Soil Science, Leninskie Gory, 1-12, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    A. V. Smagin, T. V. Prokofeva & D. D. Gosse

  3. Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, RAS, Institutskaya Street, 2, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290, Russia

    N. D. Ananyeva, K. V. Ivashchenko & E. G. Gavrilenko

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  6. Laboratory of Agroecological Monitoring, Ecosystem Modeling and Prediction, Russian State Agricultural University, Timiryazevskaya Street, 49, Moscow, 127550, Russia

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Vasenev, V.I. et al. (2017). Urban Soil’s Functions: Monitoring, Assessment, and Management. In: Rakshit, A., Abhilash, P., Singh, H., Ghosh, S. (eds) Adaptive Soil Management : From Theory to Practices. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3638-5_18

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