Citlalli Vergara
@soilscient1st.bsky.social
🌱 PhD student in the Allison Lab @ UCI EEB
🍃 intersectional urban soil microbial ecologist
🌲 dartmouth '23, B.A. in biology + sociology
🦠 mexican american, 🏳️🌈, first-gen
💚 de southeast los angeles
🌿 cat, capibara, ajolote, and nudibranch lover
🍃 intersectional urban soil microbial ecologist
🌲 dartmouth '23, B.A. in biology + sociology
🦠 mexican american, 🏳️🌈, first-gen
💚 de southeast los angeles
🌿 cat, capibara, ajolote, and nudibranch lover
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Growing wildflowers on disused urban land can damage bee health. Wildflowers growing on land previously used for buildings and factories can accumulate lead, arsenic and other metal contaminants from the soil, which are consumed by pollinators, a new study has found.
www.cam.ac.uk/resear...
www.cam.ac.uk/resear...
Growing wildflowers on disused urban land can damage bee health | University of Cambridge
The metals have previously been shown to damage the health of pollinators, which ingest them in nectar as they feed, leading to reduced population sizes and
www.cam.ac.uk
April 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Growing wildflowers on disused urban land can damage bee health. Wildflowers growing on land previously used for buildings and factories can accumulate lead, arsenic and other metal contaminants from the soil, which are consumed by pollinators, a new study has found.
www.cam.ac.uk/resear...
www.cam.ac.uk/resear...
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Urban soils and their biodiversity: sealed surfaces
What’s under sealed surfaces (parking lots, buildings, roads) in the city? How much life is in that soil? Just wondering about the not-so-obvious aspects of urban soils
What do you think?
open.substack.com/pub/matthias...
What’s under sealed surfaces (parking lots, buildings, roads) in the city? How much life is in that soil? Just wondering about the not-so-obvious aspects of urban soils
What do you think?
open.substack.com/pub/matthias...
Urban soils and their biodiversity: sealed surfaces
What about sealed surfaces in the city? Are they mostly 'dead'?
open.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Urban soils and their biodiversity: sealed surfaces
What’s under sealed surfaces (parking lots, buildings, roads) in the city? How much life is in that soil? Just wondering about the not-so-obvious aspects of urban soils
What do you think?
open.substack.com/pub/matthias...
What’s under sealed surfaces (parking lots, buildings, roads) in the city? How much life is in that soil? Just wondering about the not-so-obvious aspects of urban soils
What do you think?
open.substack.com/pub/matthias...
Reposted by Citlalli Vergara
In Science, researchers estimate that as many as 1.4 billion people live in areas with soil dangerously polluted by heavy metals like arsenic and lead.
The results reveal a global risk, but also a previously unrecognized high-risk, metal-enriched zone in low-latitude Eurasia. scim.ag/42DHZwP
The results reveal a global risk, but also a previously unrecognized high-risk, metal-enriched zone in low-latitude Eurasia. scim.ag/42DHZwP
Global soil pollution by toxic metals threatens agriculture and human health
Toxic metal pollution is ubiquitous in soils, yet its worldwide distribution is unknown. We analyzed a global database of soil pollution by arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, nickel, and lead...
scim.ag
April 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
In Science, researchers estimate that as many as 1.4 billion people live in areas with soil dangerously polluted by heavy metals like arsenic and lead.
The results reveal a global risk, but also a previously unrecognized high-risk, metal-enriched zone in low-latitude Eurasia. scim.ag/42DHZwP
The results reveal a global risk, but also a previously unrecognized high-risk, metal-enriched zone in low-latitude Eurasia. scim.ag/42DHZwP