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Microelements in solonchaks of the western Trans-Baikal region

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Distribution patterns of microelements (Mn, Zn, Ni, Cu, Cr, Co, Pb, and Cd) in solonchaks of the western Trans-Baikal region were studied. It was found that their concentrations in typical solonchaks of haloxerophytic steppe differed from those in solonchaks of moistened habitats (playa, gleyed, and dark solonchaks) because of the differences in their landscape positions and ecological conditions. A general rise in the contents of the microelements was observed from the northeast to the southwest in agreement with changes in the parent materials. Different degrees of correlation of the contents of the microelements and their exchangeable forms with the contents of soluble salts, humus, and physical clay in the soils and the soil reaction were found. The average and extreme concentrations of the microelements were determined. The studied typical solonchaks differed from the zonal chestnut soils in the higher contents of Co, Cr, and Cd; whereas solonchaks of moistened habitats were enriched in Mn, Co, and Cd.

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Original Russian Text © S.B. Sosorova, M.G. Merkusheva, L.N. Boloneva, A.L. Baldanova, L.L. Ubugunov, 2016, published in Pochvovedenie, 2016, No. 4, pp. 459–474.

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Sosorova, S.B., Merkusheva, M.G., Boloneva, L.N. et al. Microelements in solonchaks of the western Trans-Baikal region. Eurasian Soil Sc. 49, 422–436 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106422931604013X

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