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| Title |
Organic carbon hidden in urban ecosystems
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Scientific Reports, December 2012
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| DOI | 10.1038/srep00963 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jill L. Edmondson, Zoe G. Davies, Nicola McHugh, Kevin J. Gaston, Jonathan R. Leake |
| Abstract |
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 depths. For a typical U.K. city, total OC storage was 17.6 kg m(-2) across the entire urban area (assuming 0 kg m(-2) under 15% of land covered by buildings). The majority of OC (82%) was held in soils, with 13% found under impervious surfaces, and 18% stored in vegetation. We reveal that assumptions underpinning current national estimates of ecosystem OC stocks, as required by Kyoto Protocol signatories, are not robust and are likely to have seriously underestimated the contributions of urban areas. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 12 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 17% |
| Canada | 2 | 17% |
| Sweden | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 7 | 58% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 58% |
| Scientists | 4 | 33% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 231 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 225 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 46 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 45 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 36 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 21 | 9% |
| Other | 9 | 4% |
| Other | 31 | 13% |
| Unknown | 43 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science | 88 | 38% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 43 | 19% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 8 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 2% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 25 | 11% |
| Unknown | 59 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 60. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 September 2021.
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