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Urban Ecosystems
Published in: Urban Ecosystems 4/2010

01-12-2010

Differences in soil chemical properties with distance to roads and age of development in urban areas

Authors: Sun-Jeong Park, Zhiqiang Cheng, Hanbae Yang, Elizabeth E. Morris, Meaghan Sutherland, Brian B. McSpadden Gardener, Parwinder S. Grewal

Published in: Urban Ecosystems | Issue 4/2010

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Abstract

The main objective of this study was to characterize variation in soil chemical properties with length of urbanization period and distance to roads. Urban boundaries from 1920’s (old), 1960’s (middle) and 2000’s (new) were identified for three cities in northeast Ohio: Massillon, Wooster and Canton. Within each identified historic boundary, soil samples were collected from two road-side and two interior lawns in one public school site in each city. Thus, there were three urban age and two distance-to-roads classes. Soil particle composition and basic chemical properties including pH, available phosphorus (P), exchangeable potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), cation exchange capacity (CEC), nitrate, total carbon (C), total nitrogen (N), and soil organic matter (SOM) were measured. Two notable spatio-temporal patterns appeared repeatedly in the data set. First, total C, total N and SOM were higher in the soils of old (>50 years) urban sites than of newly developed sites. Similar, but not always significant, trends in soil pH, and exchangeable Ca were also observed. Second, road-side soils had higher pH, Ca, total C and N than interior sites regardless of urban age. These data indicate that key soil chemical properties can vary in predictable ways with urban age and distance-to-roads classes. Such variations in key soil chemical properties may influence or reflect soil biota and biogeochemical processes in urban soils.
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Metadata
Title
Differences in soil chemical properties with distance to roads and age of development in urban areas
Authors
Sun-Jeong Park
Zhiqiang Cheng
Hanbae Yang
Elizabeth E. Morris
Meaghan Sutherland
Brian B. McSpadden Gardener
Parwinder S. Grewal
Publication date
01-12-2010
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Urban Ecosystems / Issue 4/2010
Print ISSN: 1083-8155
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1642
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-010-0130-y

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