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Environmental Conditions of the Study Region. Objects and Methods

  • SOIL SUCCESSIONS IN THE BOREAL FORESTS OF THE KOMI REPUBLIC
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A general description of the region of research is presented; the features of geomorphology, topography, and prevailing soil-forming rocks are considered in detail. The climatic features of the middle and northern taiga of the European part of Russia are characterized. A brief description of the objects of study (vegetation and soils) with information on the time of impact on ecosystems is given. Abbreviations for the studied plots that are used in further text are explained. The methodological approaches and research methods used in this study are described. The concept of soil successions is introduced. The methods of chemical analysis and soil diagnostics applied in this study are described in detail. The methods of densimetric fractionation, hydrophobic interaction chromatography, and integration of 13C-NMR spectra of soil organic matter are presented.

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  1. The Latin names of plants are given according to Plantarium, an open-source online atlas-determinant of plants and lichens in Russia and neighboring countries (2007–2020) (http://www.plantarium.ru).

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The work was carried out within the framework of state assignment “Cryogenesis as a Factor of Soil Formation and Evolution in the Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems in the European Northeast under Conditions of Current Anthropogenic Impacts and Global and Regional Climatic Trends” (no. 122040600023-8).

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  2. Department of Physics and Soil Reclamation, Faculty of Soil Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia

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Dymov, A.A. Environmental Conditions of the Study Region. Objects and Methods. Eurasian Soil Sc. 56 (Suppl 1), S24–S35 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229323700187

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