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Soil Cover Pattern of the Mire Plain of the North Taiga Subzone in West Siberia (the Kazym River Basin)

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The soil cover of mire plains is traditionally considered as fairly homogeneous, which is largely due to the difficulties of the systematics of peat soils in the modern Russian soil classification system. This article aims to analyze some characteristics of the soil cover patterns (soil cover composition, distribution of its components by classes of combinations and their association with mire biogeocenoses) of the northern taiga mire plain lying to the north of the Sibirskie Uvaly Ridge in the basin of the Kazym River, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra. Soil maps of 34 key sites with a total area of 595.86 ha have been compiled on a scale of 1 : 5000. Overall, 33 soil mapping units are identified, including 30 units of different peat soils. Taiga soils are represented by iron-illuvial podzols and their combinations with gley soils. Thus, the main contribution to pedodiversity is provided by mire landscapes. The soil cover pattern of oligotrophic string bogs consists of low-contrasting combinations of oligotrophic peat soils differing in their thickness and the botanical composition of peat. In the areas of string bogs with water pools (lakes), low-contrasting combinations of oligotrophic peat soils differing in their botanical composition and contrasting combinations (complexes) of these soils with oligotrophic wet regressive peat soils of flarks. The importance of distinguishing between the soils of these combinations is related to different rates of the organic matter mineralization in them. Mesotrophic peat soils of key sites mainly compose individual elementary soil areas. In comparison with oligotrophic peat soils, they display a higher pedodiversity related to the botanical composition, degree of decomposition, and thickness of the peat layer. At the same time, the widespread distribution of complexes of oligotrophic and mesotrophic peat soils in the aapa mires, which was supposed in the 1980s, has not been confirmed; such complexes occupy 5.34% of the total mapped area.

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The work was carried within the framework of state assignments of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (nos. 121040800147-0 and 121041300098-7) and partly supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 19-05-50063/20) and by the Program of the Interdisciplinary Scientific and Educational School of Lomonosov Moscow State University “The Future of the Planet and Global Environmental Changes.”

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Avetov, N.A., Shishkonakova, E.A., Kinzhaev, R.R. et al. Soil Cover Pattern of the Mire Plain of the North Taiga Subzone in West Siberia (the Kazym River Basin). Eurasian Soil Sc. 55, 182–190 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229322020041

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