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Algological and mycological assessments of the soil state in the impact zone of the Kirovo-Chepetsk Chemical Plant

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The chemical and microbiological (on the basis of algae and micromycetes) analysis of the soils was carried out in the region of the Kirovo-Chepetsk Chemical Plant. It has been shown that the complex soil contamination resulted in essential changes in the algal-mycological complexes: the species diversity of the phototrophs decreased, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria practically disappeared from the algocenoses, and melanic forms of fungi dominated in the structure of the micromycetal communities. The higher sensitivity of the mycological indication method to the soil contamination was found in comparison with the methods of biotesting on the basis of protozoa and coliform bacteria.

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  1. Vyatka State Agricultural Academy, pr. Oktyabr’skii 133, Kirov, 610017, Russia

    E. V. Dabakh & L. I. Domracheva

  2. Institute of Biology, Komi Science Center, Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kommunisticheskaya 28, Syktyvkar, 167922, Russia

    E. V. Dabakh & L. I. Domracheva

  3. Vyatka State Humanitarian University, ul. Krasnoarmeiskaya 26, Kirov, 610002, Russia

    L. V. Kondakova & S. S. Zlobin

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Original Russian Text © E.V. Dabakh, L.V. Kondakova, L.I. Domracheva, S.S. Zlobin, 2013, published in Pochvovedenie, 2013, No. 2, pp. 187–194.

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Dabakh, E.V., Kondakova, L.V., Domracheva, L.I. et al. Algological and mycological assessments of the soil state in the impact zone of the Kirovo-Chepetsk Chemical Plant. Eurasian Soil Sc. 46, 168–175 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229313020026

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