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This special issue was developed from a symposium at the 2004 meeting of the Ecological Society of America titled, “Digging Deeper or Scratching the Surface? Exploring Ecological Theories in Urban Soils.” We thank the presenters (Diana Wall, Steward Pickett, Katalin Szlavecz, Richard Pouyat, Margaret Carreiro, Liam Heneghan, and Elizabeth Johnson) for their input and feedback during the development of the symposium idea and this subsequent special feature. We also thank the Soil Ecology and Urban Ecology sections of the Ecological Society of America for jointly sponsoring the symposium, including respective chairs, Julie Whitbeck and Margaret Carreiro, for providing comments on the symposium proposal.
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Pavao-Zuckerman, M.A., Byrne, L.B. Scratching the surface and digging deeper: exploring ecological theories in urban soils. Urban Ecosyst 12, 9–20 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-008-0078-3
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