维护城市生物多样性,从关注土壤开始

Maintaining Urban Biodiversity Starts with Attention to Soil

提到生物多样性,我们首先想到的是植物和动物,然而,地球上生物多样性最丰富的地方却是我们脚下的土壤。据统计,每克土壤中就含有数千种类的细菌,数量达千百万个,每平方米森林土壤中就生活着1000多种无脊椎动物,土壤的生物多样性贡献了全球生物多样性的25%以上。土壤是大地的肌肤,是一个动态、有生命和复杂的生态系统。

When mentioning biodiversity,we first think of plants and animals,yet the most biodiverse place on earth is the soil beneath our feet.According to statistics,every gram of soil contains thousands of species of bacteria,amounting to tens of millions,more than 1,000 species of invertebrates live in every square meter of forest soil,and soil biodiversity contributes more than 25%of global biodiversity.