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Soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces worldwide
Nature Communications2023
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Matthias C. Rillig,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Eduardo Moreno‐Jiménez,
Carlos Sanz‐Lázaro,
Eduardo Moreno‐Jiménez,
Carlos Sanz‐Lázaro,
Matthias C. Rillig,
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Yu‐Rong Liu,
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Judith Riedo,
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Hang‐Wei Hu,
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Xinquan Zhou,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
David J. Eldridge,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Matthias C. Rillig,
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Yong‐Guan Zhu,
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Carlos Sanz‐Lázaro,
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Yong‐Guan Zhu,
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Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Qiaoyun Huang,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Carlos Sanz‐Lázaro,
Felipe Bastida,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Qiaoyun Huang,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
César Plaza,
Qiaoyun Huang,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Carlos Sanz‐Lázaro,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Eduardo Moreno‐Jiménez,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Tine Grebenc,
Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo
Matthias C. Rillig,
Eduardo Moreno‐Jiménez,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Matthias C. Rillig,
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Qiaoyun Huang,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Ji‐Zheng He,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo
Carlos Sanz‐Lázaro,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Carlos Sanz‐Lázaro,
Qiaoyun Huang,
Matthias C. Rillig,
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Carlos Sanz‐Lázaro,
Carlos Sanz‐Lázaro,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Yu‐Rong Liu,
Qiaoyun Huang,
Xinquan Zhou,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Hang‐Wei Hu,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Carlos Sanz‐Lázaro,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Yu‐Rong Liu,
Ji‐Zheng He,
Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo
Matthias C. Rillig,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Matthias C. Rillig,
José L. Moreno,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Sebastián Abades,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo
Fernando D. Alfaro,
Adebola R. Bamigboye,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Adebola R. Bamigboye,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Miguel Berdugo,
José Luis Blanco‐Pastor,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Asunción de los Rı́os,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Jorge Durán,
Tine Grebenc,
Javier Gutiérrez Illán,
Thulani P. Makhalanyane,
Marco A. Molina‐Montenegro,
Tina Unuk Nahberger,
Marcel G. A. van der Heijden,
Gabriel F. Peñaloza‐Bojacá,
César Plaza,
Ana Rey,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Alexandra Rodríguez,
Christina Siebe,
Alberto L. Teixido,
Nuria Casado-Coy,
Pankaj Trivedi,
Cristian Torres‐Díaz,
Jay Prakash Verma,
Arpan Mukherjee,
Xiaomin Zeng,
Ling Wang,
Jianyong Wang,
Eli Zaady,
Xiaobing Zhou,
Qiaoyun Huang,
Wenfeng Tan,
Yong‐Guan Zhu,
Matthias C. Rillig,
Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo
Summary
A global study found that soil contamination in natural areas is just as bad as in nearby urban green spaces, with similar levels of heavy metals, pesticides, microplastics, and antibiotic resistance genes. Human activity was the main driver of contamination regardless of whether the area was urban or natural. The findings show that microplastic pollution and other contaminants have spread far beyond cities, potentially affecting soil health and the food grown in these areas.
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.