Urban soils contaminated with heavy metals and pesticide residues are of great concern
because of their adverse impact on human health. A total of 66 agricultural topsoil samples (15 …

Urbanization changes the land surface environment, which alters the regional climate system.
In this study, we took the Haihe River Basin in China as a case study area, as it is highly …

… Therefore, anthropogenic activities can increase soil erosion or change surface runoff to
promote additional anthropogenic contributions to mangrove soil DOM [71,73]. These …

New urbanization often leads to land-use and land-cover change (LUCC), which inevitably
affects ecosystem services (ESs). Although it is traditionally believed that urbanization …

… Taken together, our findings provide new insights into how urbanization-driven bacterial
structures and functions and soil environmental factors determine GHG emissions. Increasing N …

… Urban sprawl has led to significant land-use changes, soil degradation, and alterations in
the water and atmospheric environments, which have collectively diminished biodiversity and …

… Environmental phenomena such as shortages of water, moist soil loss, inadequate absorption
rates, and degradation significantly influence urban heat dispersion in green areas [20]…

… The impact of the urbanization-driven land use/cover change has resulted in notable nocturnal
urban heat island (UHI) as revealed from an average increase in minimum temperature of …

… land-use intensification in the exacerbation of urbanization-driven antibiotic pollution in soil
… Our finding of interactions between urbanization and land-use along UGs revealed that land-…

Urbanization, a global process entailing profound socio-economic changes, transforms land
cover. This review analyzes the social-ecological drivers and outcomes of land cover …