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Urban Soil Microbiome Functions and Their Linkages with Ecosystem Services

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Urban soil microbiomes are key ecological components that provide relevant beneficial ecosystem services (ESs) to humans living in a city and its periphery. In this chapter, we highlight how microbes contribute to ESs in urban areas. We focus on three main pressures in urban cities including climate change, pollution, and loss of biodiversity, which affect urban live ability and sustainability. We discuss the link between microbial functional guilds in the urban soil microbiome with functions that translate into supporting ESs at various scales. The urban pressures addressed here range from a microscopic scale (bioremediation) to a local scale (supporting plant growth and soil health), all the way up to a regional scale (climate regulation). We conclude by addressing some of the secondary benefits of incorporating healthier urban soil, vegetation, and associated microbiomes into city planning, resulting in a more desirable, sustainable, and liveable city.

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    Qi En Ooi, Canh Tien Trinh Nguyen, Andrew Laloo, Aditya Bandla & Sanjay Swarup

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Ooi, Q.E., Nguyen, C.T.T., Laloo, A., Bandla, A., Swarup, S. (2022). Urban Soil Microbiome Functions and Their Linkages with Ecosystem Services. In: Rakshit, A., Ghosh, S., Vasenev, V., Pathak, H., Rajput, V.D. (eds) Soils in Urban Ecosystem. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8914-7_4

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