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Changes in the Microbiological and Physicochemical Properties of Soils after Fires in Pine and Birch Forests in the Central Part of the Zabaikalsky Krai

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The microbiological and some physicochemical properties of iron-illuvial soddy podburs (Entic Rustic Podzols) under Scots pine forests and gray-humus typical light loamy soils (Umbrisols) under secondary birch forests in central areas of the Zabaikalsky krai were studied. Fires result in a decrease in the sum of exchangeable bases, total nitrogen, and available potassium and phosphorus along with an increase in the C : N ratio in soddy podburs of pine forests; the opposite tendencies are observed after fires in gray-humus soils of birch forests. The humus content in the upper soil horizon decreases only after high-severity fire in the recently burned Scots pine forest and increases in all other sites. A decrease in soil acidity is observed at all burned sites. High-severity fires lead to a significant decrease in the content of microbial biomass and the intensity of basal respiration, as well as to changes in the structure of ecotrophic groups of microorganisms in the upper mineral part of soils to a depth of 10 cm, while low-severity fires mainly affect the duff. The qCO2 coefficient increases 2–5 times in the duff and 1.5–2 times in the humus horizon only after high-severity fires. In the recently burned Scots pine forest, the storage of microbial biomass and microbial production of carbon dioxide significantly decrease to a depth of 10 cm of the mineral soil layer. At the steppe site formed after repeated burning in the Scots pine forest and at the birch forest after high-severity fire, the microbial biomass carbon decreases by 15–20%, and the microbial production of CO2 increases by 10–20%. The considered post-fire transformation of the structural and functional parameters of soil microbial cenosis, as well as a 20–40% decrease in the pool of microbial biomass carbon in all the soils after fires predetermine a long period of soil recovery after fires in the light coniferous and deciduous forests in the central part of the Zabaikalsky krai.

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This study was carried out within the framework of state assignment of the Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk Research Center, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, registration nos. 0287–2021–0008 and 0287–2021–0041.

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  1. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk Research Center, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 660036, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

    A. V. Bogorodskaya, E. A. Kukavskaya & L. V. Buryak

  2. Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, 660049, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

    O. P. Kalenskaya & L. V. Buryak

  3. Center of Forest Pyrology, Branch of the All-Russia Research Institute of Silviculture and Mechanization of Forestry, 660062, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

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Bogorodskaya, A.V., Kukavskaya, E.A., Kalenskaya, O.P. et al. Changes in the Microbiological and Physicochemical Properties of Soils after Fires in Pine and Birch Forests in the Central Part of the Zabaikalsky Krai. Eurasian Soil Sc. 56, 1707–1723 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229323601853

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