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The paper reviews the current potential and prospects of information and computing technologies in soil science and ecology and suggests a definition of computerization as a modern scientific methodology. A specific example is the experience of the Department of Radioecology and Ecotoxicology at the Faculty of Soil Science of Moscow State University in adapting and using the methodology of computerization in ecological studies, especially in long-term radioecological studies of consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP).
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Original Russian Text © S.V. Mamikhin, W.M. Badawy, D.M. Khomyakov, 2014, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Pochvovedenie, 2014, No. 4, pp. 46–50.
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Mamikhin, S.V., Badawy, W.M. & Khomyakov, D.M. Information-computing technologies in soil science and ecology. Moscow Univ. Soil Sci. Bull. 69, 188–192 (2014). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0147687414040061
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