Urban Soil Quality Assessment—A Comprehensive Case Study Dataset of Urban Garden Soils

Urban Soil Quality Assessment—A Comprehensive Case Study Dataset of Urban Garden Soils

Urban soils are a mixture of natural soil-forming factors and anthropogenic activities (Shuster and Dadio, 2018). [...]they require an adapted set of indicators for a soil quality assessment. Furthermore, sample plots were assigned one of three garden habitat types: vegetable beds (i.e., annual vege...

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Published in:Frontiers in environmental science Vol. 6
Main Authors: Tresch, Simon, Moretti, Marco, Le Bayon, Renée-Claire, Mäder, Paul, Zanetta, Andrea, Frey, David, Stehle, Bernhard, Kuhn, Anton, Munyangabe, Adolphe, Fliessbach, Andreas
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Lausanne Frontiers Research Foundation 13-11-2018
Frontiers Media S.A
Subjects:
Agricultural management
Agricultural research
allotment gardens
Anthropogenic factors
Biology
Carbon
Cities
Conservation biology
Datasets
Ecology
Economic models
Ecosystem biology
Ecosystem services
Environmental quality
Environmental science
Flowers
Fruits
Gardens & gardening
heavy metal contents in urban soils
Laboratories
Meadows
Nitrogen
Organic farming
Plants (botany)
Quality assessment
Quality control
Respiration
Ribosomal DNA
Shrubs
Soil contamination
Soil dynamics
Soil management
Soil mixtures
Soil properties
Soil quality
soil quality indicators
Soil sciences
Soils
Terrestrial ecosystems
Terrestrial environments
Turf
Urban areas
Urban farming
urban gardening
urban soil quality assessment
Urbanization
Vegetables
Switzerland
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Summary:Urban soils are a mixture of natural soil-forming factors and anthropogenic activities (Shuster and Dadio, 2018). [...]they require an adapted set of indicators for a soil quality assessment. Furthermore, sample plots were assigned one of three garden habitat types: vegetable beds (i.e., annual vegetable plants), flower beds and berry cultivations (i.e., perennial flowers, roses, and berry shrubs), and lawn (i.e., meadows and turf). [...]our study may help to analyze the effect of garden management or urbanization on soil quality (see Tresch et al., 2018) or provide data for modeling of carbon dynamics in urban soils or other soil based ecosystem services. Simon Tresch1,2,3*, Marco Moretti3, Renée-Claire Le Bayon1, Paul Mäder2, Andrea Zanetta3,4, David Frey3,5, Bernhard Stehle2,6, Anton Kuhn2, Adolphe Munyangabe2 and Andreas Fliessbach2 * 1Functional Ecology Laboratory, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland * 2Department of Soil Sciences, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Frick, Switzerland * 3Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland * 4Department of Environmental System Science, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland * 5Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland * 6Department of Biology, Ecology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
ISSN:2296-665X
2296-665X
DOI:10.3389/fenvs.2018.00136