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Article

Assessing Soil-like Materials for Ecosystem Services Provided by Constructed Technosols

by
Kristina Ivashchenko
1,2,*,
Emanuela Lepore
2,3,
Viacheslav Vasenev
2,4,
Nadezhda Ananyeva
1,
Sofiya Demina
2,
Fluza Khabibullina
2,
Inna Vaseneva
2,
Alexandra Selezneva
1,
Andrey Dolgikh
2,5,
Sofia Sushko
1,2,6,
Sara Marinari
3 and
Elvira Dovletyarova
2
1
Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Russia
2
Department of Landscape Design and Sustainable Ecosystems, Agrarian-Technological Institute, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, 117198 Moscow, Russia
3
Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-Food and Forest Systems DIBAF, University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
4
Soil Geography and Landscape Group, Wageningen University, 6700 Wageningen, The Netherlands
5
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119017 Moscow, Russia
6
Agrophysical Research Institute, 195220 Saint-Petersburg, Russia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Land 2021, 10(11), 1185; https://doi.org/10.3390/land10111185
Submission received: 26 September 2021 / Revised: 29 October 2021 / Accepted: 30 October 2021 / Published: 4 November 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soil Management for Sustainable Agriculture and Ecosystem Services)
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Urbanization results to a wide spread of Technosols. Various materials are used for Technosols’ construction with a limited attention to their ecosystem services or disservices. The research focuses on the integral assessment of soil-like materials used for Technosols’ construction in Moscow megalopolis from the ecosystem services’ perspective. Four groups of materials (valley peats, sediments, cultural layers, and commercial manufactured soil mixtures) were assessed based on the indicators, which are integral, informative, and cost-effective. Microbial respiration, C-availability, specific respiration, community level physiological profile, and Shannon’ diversity index in the materials were compared to the natural reference to assess and rank the ecosystem services and disservices. The assessment showed that sediments and low-peat mixtures (≤30% of peat in total volume) had a considerably higher capacity to provide C-sequestration, climate regulation and functional diversity services compared to peats and high-peat mixtures. Urban cultural layers provided ecosystem disservices due to pollution by potentially toxic elements and health risks from the pathogenic fungi. Mixtures comprising from the sediments with minor (≤30%) peat addition would have a high potential to increase C-sequestration and to enrich microbial functional diversity. Their implementation in urban landscaping will reduce management costs and increase sustainability of urban soils and ecosystem.
Keywords: urban soil; organo-mineral materials; ecosystem disservices; MicroResp technique; functional microbial diversity; fungi; Moscow megalopolis urban soil; organo-mineral materials; ecosystem disservices; MicroResp technique; functional microbial diversity; fungi; Moscow megalopolis
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Ivashchenko, K.; Lepore, E.; Vasenev, V.; Ananyeva, N.; Demina, S.; Khabibullina, F.; Vaseneva, I.; Selezneva, A.; Dolgikh, A.; Sushko, S.; et al. Assessing Soil-like Materials for Ecosystem Services Provided by Constructed Technosols. Land 2021, 10, 1185. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10111185

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Ivashchenko K, Lepore E, Vasenev V, Ananyeva N, Demina S, Khabibullina F, Vaseneva I, Selezneva A, Dolgikh A, Sushko S, et al. Assessing Soil-like Materials for Ecosystem Services Provided by Constructed Technosols. Land. 2021; 10(11):1185. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10111185

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Ivashchenko, Kristina, Emanuela Lepore, Viacheslav Vasenev, Nadezhda Ananyeva, Sofiya Demina, Fluza Khabibullina, Inna Vaseneva, Alexandra Selezneva, Andrey Dolgikh, Sofia Sushko, and et al. 2021. "Assessing Soil-like Materials for Ecosystem Services Provided by Constructed Technosols" Land 10, no. 11: 1185. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10111185

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Ivashchenko, K., Lepore, E., Vasenev, V., Ananyeva, N., Demina, S., Khabibullina, F., Vaseneva, I., Selezneva, A., Dolgikh, A., Sushko, S., Marinari, S., & Dovletyarova, E. (2021). Assessing Soil-like Materials for Ecosystem Services Provided by Constructed Technosols. Land, 10(11), 1185. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10111185

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