Soil Mesofauna Community Changes in Response to the Environmental Gradients of Urbanization in Guangzhou City

Soil Mesofauna Community Changes in Response to the Environmental Gradients of Urbanization in Guangzhou City

There has been a recent increase in interest on how urbanization affects soil fauna communities. However, previous studies primarily focused on some limited land use types or line transects of urban-rural gradients. At family and higher taxonomic levels, we investigated the changes of soil mesofauna...

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Main Authors: Shiqin Yu, Junliang Qiu, Xiaohua Chen, Xiaofeng Luo, Xiankun Yang, Faming Wang, Guoliang Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
urban biodiversity
soil diversity
land use change
soil invertebrate
soil heavy metal
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2020.546433/full

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