Biological Restoration of Urban Soils after De-Sealing Interventions

Most urban greening interventions involve soil de-sealing and management to enhance fertility. Management typically requires translocating fertile topsoil the site, which comes at great environmental costs. We hypothesized that de-sealed soils would undergo an increase of their fertility without exogenous application. assessed experimental plots with topsoil, topsoil. Both treatments were vegetated two ornamental shrub species irrigated. Soil was analyzed by chemical (total organic carbon) biological indicators (biological quality index microbial activities). Since metal contamination is related soil, we also monitored concentration Zn, Cu Pb in detected it plant leaves. The results demonstrate rapidly restore Restoration can contribute recent growing interest reclamation for improving environment through restoration functions ecosystem services. Overall, this study improve functionality quality.