Good day everyone,
I need an assistant to learn how to search for relevant materials discuss some of the physical, chemical and biological of soil in urban forests in the UK context. I look forward to hearing from the experts. Many thanks.
You can read the following article https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169204697001175
Urban soils might be completely different from the natural soil as these soils are highly affected by man, especially by addition and removals. Therefore, it is better to look at the history of land use. When it was changed to forest land? What was the land-use system before forest? Was there any external ( deposited soil) and was the characteristic of that soil? Is there any data about the soil properties of the area before the forest and after the forest? Is there any profile data and how many profiles are there, if you have the profile data that could be very great and just find the location of those profiles and reopen the new profiles then you will see the whole change. Then follow the normal procedures of forest soil evaluation. Sources and sinks for your targeted soil properties will very clear!
Urban forest soil is highly variable in terms of physio-chemical properties due disturbance of soil, removal of soil etc.
Urban soils’ is a class of Anthropic soils, a term already used in several classification systems. Urban soils are soils extensively influenced by human activities, found mostly but not only in urban areas. They include: (1) soils that are composed of a mixture of materials differing from those in adjacent agricultural or forest areas, and that may present a surface layer greater than 50 cm, highly transformed by human activity through mixing, importing, and exporting material, and by contamination; (2) soils in parks and gardens that are closer to agricultural soils but offer different composition, use, and management than agricultural soils; and (3) soils that result from various construction activities in urban areas and that are often sealed. According to this definition, urban soils are essentially under strong human influence in urban and suburban environments; they may exert a strong effect on human health, on plants and soil organisms, and on water infiltration. Hence there is high probability to get heavy metals and pesticides in urban forest
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