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Biogeochemical evaluation of forest ecosystems in the area affected by Norilsk industrial complex

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The carbon-sequestering role of phytomass has been shown to decrease almost 30-fold along the pollution gradient. The release of copper and nickel during phytodetritus decomposition and the consumption of these elements upon biomass production are not balanced. Dead plant material acts as a sorption, sedimentation, and mechanical barrier concentrating heavy metals and sulfur.

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  1. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademgorodok 50/28, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia

    E. F. Vedrova & L. V. Mukhortova

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Original Russian Text © E.F. Vedrova, L.V. Mukhortova, 2014, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2014, No. 6, pp. 933–944.

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Vedrova, E.F., Mukhortova, L.V. Biogeochemical evaluation of forest ecosystems in the area affected by Norilsk industrial complex. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 7, 669–678 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425514060171

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