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Soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces worldwide

Yu-Rong Liu ^{1, 2}

Marcel van der Heijden ^{3, 4}

Judith Riedo ⁴

C. Sanz-Lázaro ^{5, 6}

David C. Eldridge ⁷

Felipe Bastida ⁸

Eduardo Moreno Jiménez ^{9, 10, 11}

Xin-Quan Zhou ²

Ji-zheng He ¹²

Ji-Zheng He ¹²

José L Moreno ⁸

Sebastian Abades ¹³

Fernando D. Alfaro ^{13, 14}

Adebola R. Bamigboye ¹⁵

Miguel Berdugo ¹⁶

José L Blanco Pastor ¹⁷

Asunción de los Rios ¹⁸

Jorge Duran ^{19, 20}

Tine Grebenc ²¹

Javier G. Illán ²²

Thulani P. Makhalanyane ²³

Marco A Molina Montenegro ^{24, 25}

Tina U. Nahberger ²¹

Gabriel F. Peñaloza-Bojacá ²⁶

César Plaza ²⁷

Ana Rey ^{18, 19}

Alexandra Rodríguez ^{19, 20}

Christina Siebe ²⁸

Alberto L Teixido ²⁹

Nuria Casado Coy ⁵

Pankaj Trivedi ³⁰

Cristian Torres-Díaz ³¹

Jay Prakash Verma ³²

Arpan Mukherjee ³²

Xiao Min Zeng ²

Ling Wang ³³

Jianyong Wang ³³

Eli Zaady ³⁴

Xiaobing Zhou ³⁵

Qiaoyun Huang ^{1, 2}

Wenfeng Tan ^{2, 36}

Yong-Guan Zhu ³⁷

Matthias C. Rillig ^{10, 11}

Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo ^{38, 39}

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State key laboratory of agricultural microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China |

College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China |

Plant-Soil Interactions, Agroscope, Zürich, Switzerland |

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Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland |

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Multidisciplinary Institute for Environmental Studies (MIES), University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain |

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Department of Ecology, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain |

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Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |

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CEBAS-CSIC. Department of Soil and Water Conservation. Campus Universitario de Espinardo, Murcia, Spain |

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Department of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain |

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Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany |

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Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany |

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Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia |

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GEMA Center for Genomics, Ecology & Environment, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile |

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Instituto de Ecología Y Biodiversidad (IEB), Santiago, Chile |

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Natural History Museum (Botany Unit), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria |

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Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain |

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INRAE, UR4 (URP3F), Centre Nouvelle-Aquitaine-Poitiers, Lusignan, France |

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Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain |

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Misión Biológica de Galicia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Pontevedra, Spain |

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Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal |

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Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia |

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Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, USA |

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Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Marine Microbiomics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

University of Pretoria

National Research Foundation

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Centre for Integrative Ecology, ICB, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile |

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CEAZA, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile |

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Laboratório de Sistemática Vegetal, Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil |

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Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain |

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Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, México D.F, México |

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Departamento de Botânica e Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil |

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Microbiome Network and Department of Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA |

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Grupo de Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (BCG), Departamento de Ciencias. Básicas, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Campus Fernando May, Chillán, Chile |

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Plant-Microbes Interaction Lab, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India |

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Institute of Grassland Science/School of Life Science, Northeast Normal University, and Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Changchun, Jilin, China |

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Department of Natural Resources, Agricultural Research Organization, Institute of Plant Sciences, Gilat Research Center, Negev, Israel |

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State Key Laboratory of Desert and oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China |

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State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Soil Health and Green Remediation, Wuhan, China |

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State key laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China |

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Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico. Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, Sevilla, Spain |

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Unidad Asociada CSIC-UPO (BioFun)., Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2023-03-27

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ISSN: 20411723

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37428-6

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Abstract

Soil contamination is one of the main threats to ecosystem health and sustainability. Yet little is known about the extent to which soil contaminants differ between urban greenspaces and natural ecosystems. Here we show that urban greenspaces and adjacent natural areas (i.e., natural/semi-natural ecosystems) shared similar levels of multiple soil contaminants (metal(loid)s, pesticides, microplastics, and antibiotic resistance genes) across the globe. We reveal that human influence explained many forms of soil contamination worldwide. Socio-economic factors were integral to explaining the occurrence of soil contaminants worldwide. We further show that increased levels of multiple soil contaminants were linked with changes in microbial traits including genes associated with environmental stress resistance, nutrient cycling, and pathogenesis. Taken together, our work demonstrates that human-driven soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces globally, and highlights that soil contaminants have the potential to cause dire consequences for ecosystem sustainability and human wellbeing.

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TY - JOUR

DO - 10.1038/s41467-023-37428-6

UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37428-6

TI - Soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces worldwide

T2 - Nature Communications

AU - Liu, Yu-Rong

AU - van der Heijden, Marcel

AU - Riedo, Judith

AU - Sanz-Lázaro, C.

AU - Eldridge, David C.

AU - Bastida, Felipe

AU - Moreno Jiménez, Eduardo

AU - Zhou, Xin-Quan

AU - He, Ji-zheng

AU - He, Ji-Zheng

AU - Moreno, José L

AU - Abades, Sebastian

AU - Alfaro, Fernando D.

AU - Bamigboye, Adebola R.

AU - Berdugo, Miguel

AU - Blanco Pastor, José L

AU - de los Rios, Asunción

AU - Duran, Jorge

AU - Grebenc, Tine

AU - Illán, Javier G.

AU - Makhalanyane, Thulani P.

AU - Molina Montenegro, Marco A

AU - Nahberger, Tina U.

AU - Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F.

AU - Plaza, César

AU - Rey, Ana

AU - Rodríguez, Alexandra

AU - Siebe, Christina

AU - Teixido, Alberto L

AU - Casado Coy, Nuria

AU - Trivedi, Pankaj

AU - Torres-Díaz, Cristian

AU - Verma, Jay Prakash

AU - Mukherjee, Arpan

AU - Zeng, Xiao Min

AU - Wang, Ling

AU - Wang, Jianyong

AU - Zaady, Eli

AU - Zhou, Xiaobing

AU - Huang, Qiaoyun

AU - Tan, Wenfeng

AU - Zhu, Yong-Guan

AU - Rillig, Matthias C.

AU - Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

PY - 2023

DA - 2023/03/27

PB - Springer Nature

IS - 1

VL - 14

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@article{2023_Liu,

author = {Yu-Rong Liu and Marcel van der Heijden and Judith Riedo and C. Sanz-Lázaro and David C. Eldridge and Felipe Bastida and Eduardo Moreno Jiménez and Xin-Quan Zhou and Ji-zheng He and Ji-Zheng He and José L Moreno and Sebastian Abades and Fernando D. Alfaro and Adebola R. Bamigboye and Miguel Berdugo and José L Blanco Pastor and Asunción de los Rios and Jorge Duran and Tine Grebenc and Javier G. Illán and Thulani P. Makhalanyane and Marco A Molina Montenegro and Tina U. Nahberger and Gabriel F. Peñaloza-Bojacá and César Plaza and Ana Rey and Alexandra Rodríguez and Christina Siebe and Alberto L Teixido and Nuria Casado Coy and Pankaj Trivedi and Cristian Torres-Díaz and Jay Prakash Verma and Arpan Mukherjee and Xiao Min Zeng and Ling Wang and Jianyong Wang and Eli Zaady and Xiaobing Zhou and Qiaoyun Huang and Wenfeng Tan and Yong-Guan Zhu and Matthias C. Rillig and Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo and others},

title = {Soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces worldwide},

journal = {Nature Communications},

year = {2023},

volume = {14},

publisher = {Springer Nature},

month = {mar},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37428-6},

number = {1},

pages = {1706},

doi = {10.1038/s41467-023-37428-6}

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