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A diagnostic procedure to assess the agro-ecological state of drained, degraded and polluted peatland identifies both landscape-ecological relationships and the human activities that have brought about the present situation. It makes use of an expanded database of field observations; knowledge of current processes of soil formation; and a unified system of indicators based on systematicity, hierarchy, differentiation, origin, complexity and preventability. Fieldwork in 2016–2017 revealed degradation of the soil cover as a result of drying peatland and contamination of the soil with radionuclides: peat fires are an issue where there is inadequate control of the watertable and persistent 137Cs contamination restricts the use of some peat soils. However, it can be unequivocally stated that this landscape is not contaminated by heavy metals, rather the trace elements zinc and copper are deficient and need supplementing.
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Bortnik, A., Gavryliuk, V., Bortnik, T. (2021). Status and Future of Drained and Technogenically Degraded Peatlands in Western Polissia. In: Dmytruk, Y., Dent, D. (eds) Soils Under Stress. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68394-8_13
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