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SUBMITTER: Edmondson JL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3520025 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Edmondson Jill L JL Davies Zoe G ZG McHugh Nicola N Gaston Kevin J KJ Leake Jonathan R JR
Scientific reports 20121212
Urbanization is widely presumed to degrade ecosystem services, but empirical evidence is now challenging these assumptions. We report the first city-wide organic carbon (OC) budget for vegetation and soils, including under impervious surfaces. Urban soil OC storage was significantly greater than in regional agricultural land at equivalent soil depths, however there was no significant difference in storage between soils sampled beneath urban greenspaces and impervious surfaces, at equivalent dept ...[more]