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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2022, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (1): 268-276.doi: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.202201.009

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Problems and countermeasures of soil health quality in urban green space

HAN Ji-gang1,2, LI Gang3, ZHANG Wei-wei1,2, LIU Wen1,2, LIU Shu3, MA Xiang1,2, ZHANG Lang1,2*, ZHU Yong-guan3   

  1. 1Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Ecological Landscaping of Challenging Urban Sites, National Forestry and Grassland Administration Innovation Alliance on Afforestation and Landscaping of Challenging Urban Sites, Shanghai Academy of Landscape Architecture Science and Planning, Shanghai 200232, China;
    2Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Landscaping on Challenging Urban Sites, Shanghai 200232, China;
    3CAS Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, Fujian, China
  • Received:2021-05-13 Accepted:2021-11-16 Online:2022-01-15 Published:2022-07-15

Abstract: Soil quality of urban green space (UGS) is the basis for ensuring healthy growth of plants and maintaining the healthy ecosystem services for the residents and the sustainable development of city. At present, in order to improve the soil quality of UGS, more attention has been paid to fertility quality and environmental quality, but less to the health quality. We analyzed the concept, connotation, and assessment indicator of soil health quality, summarized the main problems and challenges of soil health quality of UGS. Finally, we put forward the ways and strategies to improve soil health quality of UGS, and prospected future research direction. Our aim was to attract the attention to the soil quality of UGS, especially soil health quality, and the importance of comprehensively improving soil quality of UGS, eventually providing strong technical support for urban sustainable development and eco-city construction.

Key words: urban green space (UGS), soil health quality, problem, measure