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Coordinated soil–geobotanical studies revealed a close correlation between the species diversity of phytocenoses and soil properties in the Russkii Sever National Nature Park (Vologda oblast). Soil acidity, together with the concentrations of exchangeable calcium, potassium, and magnesium, is a factor determining variations of species diversity indices for vascular plants and bryophytes in forest biogeocenoses.
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Koptsik, S.V., Koptsik, G.N., Livantsova, S.Y. et al. Analysis of the Relationship between Soil and Vegetation in Forest Biogeocenoses by the Principal Component Method. Russian Journal of Ecology 34, 34–42 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021862921242
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