Monitoring and Assessing Anthropogenic Influence on Soil’s Health in Urban Forests: The Case from Moscow City

Spatial variability of soil properties in the urban park before and after reconstruction

“…For example, the reconstruction of the Seoul Forest Park resulted in remarkable increase in SOC contents, and also increased spatial variability of SOC (Bae and Ryu, 2015). An increase of bulk density and pH H2O was reported for the reconstructed plots in the urban forest park in Moscow (Dovletyarova et al, 2017). In the investigated areas we found remarkable changes in soil properties of before and after reconstruction with different patterns obtained for 0-30 and 30-50 cm layers.…”

“…For example, trees and shrubs absorb contaminants (hydrocarbons, sulfates, heavy metals and particle matters), emitted by industries and traffic (Dovletyarova et al, 2017). Vegetation and soils of urban parks contribute to carbon sequestration and nitrogen deposition (Svirejeva-Hopkins et al, 2004;Raciti et al, 2011).…”

Ecological restoration at pilot-scale employing site-specific rationales for small-patch degraded mangroves in Indian Sundarbans

“…Arylsulfatase activity of soil microbes was measured using 0.5 g of air-dried soil extracted with 0.5 M acetate buffer and 0.05 M para-nitrophenyl sulfate solution and quantified against para-nitrophenol as standard at 400 nm 115 . Colony-forming units (CFU) of different nutrient-cyclers like cellulose degraders 116 , free-living nitrogen fixers 116 , phosphate solubilizers 117 , iron oxidizers 118 , ammonifiers 119 , nitrifiers 120 , nitrite oxidizers 120 , aerobic denitrifiers 121 , sulfur oxidizer 116 bacteria were recorded by spreading serially diluted sediment samples in above mentioned nutrient specific differential agar-based media.…”

COVID-19 pandemic changes the recreational use of Moscow parks in space and time: Outcomes from crowd-sourcing and machine learning

“…After 2010, the area is open for public, but still is not intended for mass recreation due to underdeveloped infrastructure. The average number of visitors is less than 5 thousands per day ( Dovletyarova et al, 2017 , Reitz et al, 2021 ). The Gorky Park (~ 375 ha) is the central and historically the most famous park in Moscow ( Kalyukin et al, 2015 , Shaw, 2011 ) attracting tourists and citizens from all over the city.…”