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Comparative Analysis of the Results of Traditional and Digital Large-Scale Soil Mapping on the Example of a Key Site in the Smolenskoe Poozerye National Park

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The area of the Smolenskoe Poozerye National Park is characterized by a complicated and poorly studied soil cover and considerable anthropogenic impact. Soil maps, scale of 1 : 25 000, were compiled for a plot of 8.8 km2 in the southwest of the National Park, using the methods of traditional and digital soil mapping (DSM). The results obtained were compared. Both maps show that the study area is dominated by gray-humus soils (Umbric Cambisol (Loamic) and Arenosols (Ochric)). This is related to the agricultural use and regeneration of abandoned plowed soils. Smaller areas are occupied by Al-Fe-humus and texture-differentiated soils (Podzols (Arenic) and Retisols (Loamic), respectively). In addition, isolated areas of psammozems (Arenosols) have been found and identified on the map compiled by the traditional approach. The general accuracy of the map compiled by the DSM was 55%. The identified leading factors were the following: position in the relief, the parent rock, and vegetation. The distribution of soddy-podzolic soils associated with loamy parent rocks and of mucky-peat soils (Histosols) formed in local depressions and on the floodplain of Baklanovskoe Lake was predicted by the DSM methods with an accuracy of 87 and 60%, respectively. The location of soddy podburs (Entic Rustic Podzols (Ochric)) was predicted with an accuracy of only 29%. Large-scale differentiation of the soil cover was better reflected by the traditional method of the soil cover mapping as compared to the digital approach.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to the administration of the Smolenskoe Poozerye National Park for the opportunity to carry out the research, to I.M. Bavshin and M.A. Smirnova for discussing the text of the manuscript and valuable advices for its improvement, to M.I. Gerasimova for the assistance in soil diagnostics, as well as to participants in the terrain survey: D.S. Zhogov, V.E. Karpachev, D.A. Kasimova, G.I. Kolos, D.V. Kotov, A.D. Naumov, A.A. Peunova, A.A. Piskunova, E.A. Sergeeva, N.S. Sobolev, E.S. Starchikova, I.E. Tamarovskii, and D.A. Terekhova. Materials provided by the Geoportal Center for Collective Use (Lomonosov Moscow State University) were used for the selection of research objects.

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This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 21-74-20171 (interpretation of the results), by the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Research Project no. 1.4 Anthropogenic Geochemical Transformation of Landscape Components), and by the Interdisciplinary Scientific and Educational School The Future of the Planet and Global Environmental Changes (terrain survey and soil diagnostics).

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  1. Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997, Moscow, Russia

    A. I. Kulikova, O. V. Shopina & I. N. Semenkov

  2. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    A. I. Kulikova, P. D. Chechenkov, M. S. Osipova, O. V. Shopina & I. N. Semenkov

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Kulikova, A.I., Chechenkov, P.D., Osipova, M.S. et al. Comparative Analysis of the Results of Traditional and Digital Large-Scale Soil Mapping on the Example of a Key Site in the Smolenskoe Poozerye National Park. Eurasian Soil Sc. 56, 271–277 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229322602281

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