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Microbiological Transformation of Organic Matter in Oil-Polluted Tundra Soils after Their Reclamation

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The influence of oil pollution caused by the accident of 1994 on the biological activity of Histic Cryosols is considered. Despite the use of complex mechanical (oil removal), physicochemical (washing on special devices), and agrotechnical (fertilization, plowing, grass sowing) reclamation techniques, the residual content of oil hydrocarbons in the soils can reach high values. The disturbance of the natural peat soil horizon during the reclamation procedures reduces the respiratory activity, as well as the potential rate of consuming the substrates, plant residues and water-soluble organic matter, which decreases the carbon cycle rate.

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This work was supported by the grant of President of the Russian Federation (project no. MK-1996.2017.5). The authors thank M.I. Makarov, Head of the Department of Soil Science of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, for the possibility to determine carbon in soil extracts.

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Maslov, M.N., Maslova, O.A. & Ezhelev, Z.S. Microbiological Transformation of Organic Matter in Oil-Polluted Tundra Soils after Their Reclamation. Eurasian Soil Sc. 52, 58–65 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229319010101

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