Nature Communications (Mar 2023)
Soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces worldwide
- Yu-Rong Liu,
- Marcel G. A. van der Heijden,
- Judith Riedo,
- Carlos Sanz-Lazaro,
- David J. Eldridge,
- Felipe Bastida,
- Eduardo Moreno-Jiménez,
- Xin-Quan Zhou,
- Hang-Wei Hu,
- Ji-Zheng He,
- José L. Moreno,
- Sebastian Abades,
- Fernando Alfaro,
- Adebola R. Bamigboye,
- Miguel Berdugo,
- José L. Blanco-Pastor,
- Asunción de los Ríos,
- Jorge Duran,
- Tine Grebenc,
- Javier G. Illán,
- Thulani P. Makhalanyane,
- Marco A. Molina-Montenegro,
- Tina U. Nahberger,
- Gabriel F. Peñaloza-Bojacá,
- César Plaza,
- Ana Rey,
- Alexandra Rodríguez,
- Christina Siebe,
- Alberto L. Teixido,
- Nuria Casado-Coy,
- Pankaj Trivedi,
- Cristian Torres-Díaz,
- Jay Prakash Verma,
- Arpan Mukherjee,
- Xiao-Min Zeng,
- Ling Wang,
- Jianyong Wang,
- Eli Zaady,
- Xiaobing Zhou,
- Qiaoyun Huang,
- Wenfeng Tan,
- Yong-Guan Zhu,
- Matthias C. Rillig,
- Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
Affiliations
- Yu-Rong Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Marcel G. A. van der Heijden
- Plant-Soil Interactions, Agroscope
- Judith Riedo
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zürich
- Carlos Sanz-Lazaro
- Multidisciplinary Institute for Environmental Studies (MIES), University of Alicante
- David J. Eldridge
- Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales
- Felipe Bastida
- CEBAS-CSIC. Department of Soil and Water Conservation. Campus Universitario de Espinardo
- Eduardo Moreno-Jiménez
- Department of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Xin-Quan Zhou
- College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Hang-Wei Hu
- Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne
- Ji-Zheng He
- Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne
- José L. Moreno
- CEBAS-CSIC. Department of Soil and Water Conservation. Campus Universitario de Espinardo
- Sebastian Abades
- GEMA Center for Genomics, Ecology & Environment, Universidad Mayor
- Fernando Alfaro
- GEMA Center for Genomics, Ecology & Environment, Universidad Mayor
- Adebola R. Bamigboye
- Natural History Museum (Botany Unit), Obafemi Awolowo University
- Miguel Berdugo
- Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- José L. Blanco-Pastor
- INRAE, UR4 (URP3F), Centre Nouvelle-Aquitaine-Poitiers
- Asunción de los Ríos
- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
- Jorge Duran
- Misión Biológica de Galicia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
- Tine Grebenc
- Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics, Slovenian Forestry Institute
- Javier G. Illán
- Department of Entomology, Washington State University
- Thulani P. Makhalanyane
- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Marine Microbiomics, University of Pretoria
- Marco A. Molina-Montenegro
- Centre for Integrative Ecology, ICB, Universidad de Talca
- Tina U. Nahberger
- Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics, Slovenian Forestry Institute
- Gabriel F. Peñaloza-Bojacá
- Laboratório de Sistemática Vegetal, Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- César Plaza
- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
- Ana Rey
- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
- Alexandra Rodríguez
- Misión Biológica de Galicia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
- Christina Siebe
- Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria
- Alberto L. Teixido
- Departamento de Botânica e Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
- Nuria Casado-Coy
- Multidisciplinary Institute for Environmental Studies (MIES), University of Alicante
- Pankaj Trivedi
- Microbiome Network and Department of Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University
- Cristian Torres-Díaz
- Grupo de Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (BCG), Departamento de Ciencias. Básicas, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Campus Fernando May
- Jay Prakash Verma
- Plant-Microbes Interaction Lab, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University
- Arpan Mukherjee
- Plant-Microbes Interaction Lab, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University
- Xiao-Min Zeng
- College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Ling Wang
- Institute of Grassland Science/School of Life Science, Northeast Normal University, and Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Changchun
- Jianyong Wang
- Institute of Grassland Science/School of Life Science, Northeast Normal University, and Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Changchun
- Eli Zaady
- Department of Natural Resources, Agricultural Research Organization, Institute of Plant Sciences, Gilat Research Center
- Xiaobing Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Qiaoyun Huang
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Wenfeng Tan
- College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Yong-Guan Zhu
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Matthias C. Rillig
- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin
- Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
- Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico. Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37428-6
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 14,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
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.
