Jay Prakash Verma

Abstract Greenspaces are important for sustaining healthy urban environments and their human populations. Yet their capacity to support multiple ecosystem services simultaneously (multiservices) compared with nearby natural ecosystems remains virtually unknown. We conducted a global field survey in 56 urban areas to investigate the influence of urban greenspaces on 23 soil and plant attributes and compared them with nearby natural environments.

Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37428-6, published online 27 March 2023 In the version of this article originally published, the current affiliation 25, “CEAZA, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile,” initially appeared as the last affiliation, offsetting all author footnotes from 25-39. The affiliation order has been restored in the article.

Field survey and soil sampling Soil samples were collected from paired urban greenspaces and adjacent natural areas (i.e., natural and semi-natural ecosystems near cities that are not subjected to management) from 56 municipalities of 17 countries and six continents (Supplementary Fig. 1A, B and Supplementary Table 1). Natural areas were about 20 km from the urban greenspaces, which include forests, grasslands, shrublands, or relict forests with their original vegetation.