Urban parks soil properties
Published: 27 November 2025| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/c7p6jx6b2p.1
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Nerea Ferrando JorgeDescription
The study draws on environmental data collected in urban parks across the UK and France (2018–2019), where employees and scientists assessed soil chemical, physical and biological properties to support holistic urban soil health monitoring. Citizen scientists’ soil colour observations, calibrated using a spectrophotometer, were successfully used to estimate soil organic carbon (SOC), highlighting the potential of fast, low-cost, scalable methods to support traditional SOC analyses in the context of climate change (Ferrando Jorge et al. 2021)
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Institutions
- University of Reading
- Earthwatch Institute Europe
Categories
Soil Science, Urban Ecology, Soil Carbon, Urban Forestry, Urban Soil