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Fertility of soils under spruce forests of the Khibiny Mountains

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The development of fertility of soils on different parent rocks is considered for different types of spruce forests in the Khibiny Mountains. The spruce forests of Mts. Kuel’por, Vud’yavrchorr, Chil’mana, and Saami were the objects for the study. The results showed that the fertility level of the soils of the Khibiny Mountains was determined by the combined influence of the parent rock’s composition and the vegetation. The differences in the soil properties are mainly explained by the composition of the parent rocks. The pod-burs differ from the podzols by the higher contents of organic matter, nitrogen, and available nutrients. The podzols are the most acid soils there. The podburs of Mt Kuel’por developing on base-rich parent rocks are the most fertile. The differences in the fertility of the soils on the intrabiogeocenotic (tessera) level are related to the vegetation. The soils of the spruce and tall-grass tesseras are richer in nitrogen, calcium, and manganese as compared to the soils of the dwarf shrub-green moss, low-grass-dwarf shrub-green moss, and tussock grass-dwarf shrub tesseras.

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    M. A. Orlova, N. V. Lukina, D. A. Krasnov & I. O. Kamaev

  2. Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Institutskaya 4, Pushchino, Moscow oblast, 142290, Russia

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Original Russian Text © M.A. Orlova, N.V. Lukina, V.E. Smirnov, D.A. Krasnov, I.O. Kamaev, 2012, published in Pochvovedenie, 2012, No. 6, pp. 682–695.

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Orlova, M.A., Lukina, N.V., Smirnov, V.E. et al. Fertility of soils under spruce forests of the Khibiny Mountains. Eurasian Soil Sc. 45, 612–624 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229312060087

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