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This article discusses the reclamation dynamics of vegetation cover and soils after the radical phytomelioration of Artemisia terrae-albae pastures communities on brown desert solonetzic soils of the northern part of Aral Sea region. The experiment was laid in the late 1970s. Agropyron desertorum was used to create the sowing pasture. Plowing led to the destruction of natural plant communities and soils. The low germination of Agropyron seeds promoted the spread of weedy annuals, which slow the demutation of natural vegetation for 10 years. At present, the development of the vegetation cover of the laylands has reached the late-succession stage, for which the spatial and synusial structure of zonal plant communities is typical. The soils are at the stage of reclamation of morphogenetic features and properties according to the type of desert soil formation.
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Original Russian Text © L.A. Dimeyeva, V.N. Permitina, B.M. Sultanova, K. Ussen, V.V. Lyssenko, 2017, published in Aridnye Ekosistemy, 2017, Vol. 23, No. 4(73), pp. 68–78.
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Dimeyeva, L.A., Permitina, V.N., Sultanova, B.M. et al. Evaluation of the restoration dynamics of the Artemisia terrae-albae communities in the northern part of the Aral Sea region. Arid Ecosyst 7, 256–264 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079096117040102
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