Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Degradation of soils as a result of human-induced transformation of their water regime and soil-protective practice

  • Degradation, Rehabilitation, and Conservation of Soils
  • Published:
Eurasian Soil Science Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The adverse human-induced changes in the water regime of soils leading to their degradation are considered. Factors of the human activity related to the water industry, agriculture, and silviculture are shown to play the most active role in the soil degradation. Among them are the large-scale hydraulic works on rivers, drainage and irrigation of soils, ameliorative and agricultural impacts, road construction, and uncontrolled impacts of industry and silviculture on the environment. The reasons for each case of soil degradation related to changes in the soil water regime are considered, and preventive measures are proposed. The role of secondary soil degradation processes is shown.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. S. F. Aver’yanov, D. P. Yunevich, and V. M. Ignat’eva, “Deep Drainage of Bogs,” Gidrotekh. Melior., No. 5, 24–36 (1960).

  2. D. L. Armand, Science on Landscape (Mysl’, Moscow, 1975) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  3. F. R. Zaidel’man, “Deep Drainage of Low-Moor Bogs,” Gidrotekh. Melior., No. 11, 25–31 (1960).

  4. F. R. Zaidel’man, “Hydrological Factor of Anthropogenic Degradation of Soils and the Methods of Its Control,” Pochvovedenie, No. 10, 1272–1284 (2000) [Eur. Soil Sci. 33 (10), 1118–1128 (2000)].

  5. F. R. Zaidel’man, Natural and Anthropogenic Waterlogging of Soils (Gidrometeoizdat, St. Petersburg, 1992) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  6. F. R. Zaidel’man, Soil Reclamation (Mosk. Gos. Univ., Moscow, 2003) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  7. F. R. Zaidel’man, Siberian Soils Underlain by Gravel and Their Use in Irrigated Farming (Rossel’khozizdat, Moscow, 1965) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  8. F. R. Zaidel’man, Gleyization and Its Role in Pedogenesis (Mosk. Gos. Univ., Moscow, 1998) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  9. F. R. Zaidel’man, Ecological-Reclamation Soil Science of Humid Landscapes (Agropromizdat, Moscow, 1991) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  10. F. R. Zaidel’man, I. M. Gadzhiev, and L. S. Rozhkova, “Simulation of Interactions of Waterlogged Soils and Sediments with Reservoir Waters,” in Integrated Use of Water Reservoirs (Mosk. Gos. Univ., Moscow, 1978), issue 1, pp. 127–136 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  11. F. R. Zaidel’man, V. A. Zamytskii, and M. E. Ginzburg, Ecological Principles of Deep Reclamation Loosening of Soils (Mosk. Gos. Univ., Moscow, 1986) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  12. F. R. Zaidel’man and A. S. Nikiforova, “Changes in Properties of Light-Textured Soils of the Oka-Meshchera Poles’e under the Effect of Drainage and Cultivation,“ Vestn. Mosk. Univ., Ser. 17: Pochvoved., No. 2, 11–15 (1996).

  13. F. R. Zaidel’man, V. I. Tyul’panov, E. N. Angelov, and A. I. Davydov, Soils of Mochar Landscapes: Development, Agroecology, and Reclamation (Mosk. Gos. Univ., Moscow, 1998) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  14. F. R. Zaidel’man and A. P. Shvarov, Pyrogenic and Hydrothermal Degradation of Peat Soils (Mosk. Gos. Univ., Moscow, 2002) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  15. Saline Soils of Russia, Ed. by L. L. Shishov and E. I. Pankova (Akademkniga, Moscow, 2006) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  16. I. Ya. Kopysov, Extended Abstract of Doctoral Dissertation in Agriculture (St. Petersburg, 1997).

  17. T. S. Lukovskaya, Extended Abstract of Candidate’s Dissertation in Biology (Moscow, 1990).

  18. N. G. Minashina, L. L. Shishov, and G. K. Gavrilova, “Gazha Solonchaks in the Southwest of the Golodnaya Steppe: Genesis and Composition of Soil Solutions,” Pochvovedenie, No. 5, 527–536 (2004) [Eur. Soil Sci. 37 (5), 451–459 (2004)].

  19. E. P. Odum, Basic Ecology (Philadlelphia, 1983).

  20. E. N. Khlebnikova, “Solodization of Soils in the Steppe Zone under Irrigation,” in Prevention and Liquidation of Waterlogging and Salinization of Irrigated Soils (Moscow, 1989), pp. 116–119 [in Russian].

  21. G. S. Tsytron, Anthropogenically Transformed Soils of Belarus (Minsk, 2004) [in Russian].

  22. K. Gottlich, Moor- und Torfkunde (Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 1980).

    Google Scholar 

  23. F. R. Zaidelman, “Development of Coastal Marshlands and Other Saline Soils,” in Encyclopedia of Life Support System (UNESCO, 2003).

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Soil Science, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    F. R. Zaidel’man

Authors
  1. F. R. Zaidel’man
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to F. R. Zaidel’man.

Additional information

Original Russian Text © F.R. Zaidel’man, 2009, published in Pochvovedenie, 2009, No. 1, pp. 93–105.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Zaidel’man, F.R. Degradation of soils as a result of human-induced transformation of their water regime and soil-protective practice. Eurasian Soil Sc. 42, 82–92 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229309010116

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229309010116

Keywords

Search

Navigation