Reference Quality of the Soil Structure of Native Chernozems in the South of the Central Russian Upland
The work has been supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project No. 24-17-00154 “Geography, properties and reference functions of native chernozems of the forest-steppe zone in the south of the Central Russian Upland”.
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https://doi.org/10.52575/2712-7443-2025-49-4-696-710Keywords:
degradation of chernozems, native soils, standard-significant soils, structural-aggregate composition, water resistance of the structure, historical and cartographic method, cluster analysisAbstract
Assessing the degradation of the physical condition of chernozems requires the knowledge on the level of indicators in virgin or fallow soils, which can serve as standards for comparison with anthropogenically transformed soils. In the south of the Central Russian Upland, there is an acute shortage of such soils, so the search, study and use of reference qualities of native soils and preserved natural fragments of the soil cover are relevant. The objective of the study is to analyze the structural and aggregate composition and water stability of the structure of chernozems in nine areas of old pastures and hayfields in the Belgorod Region, to reveal factors influencing the structure, to compare them with the parameters of virgin soil and to identify the prospects for using the sites as reference for determining the degree of degradation of the physical condition of soils. The scientific significance of the work lies in obtaining new data on the features of the structural and aggregate composition and water stability of the structure of soils that were not processed, but used for a long time as pastures or hayfields. The practical significance of the work consists in identifying promising areas where the quality of the structure of chernozems corresponds to the reference (virgin) variant. The study is based on the substantive and geoecological approaches. The main research methods are historical and cartographic ones, the geoinformation method, field soil research (profile and morphological), laboratory and instrumental methods, comparative analysis, mathematical and statistical methods. The main result of the study is identifying the areas where the structure of chernozems is close to arable soil variants, which does not allow us to talk about the standard nature of their structure. To assess the structural properties of the soil as standard, it is necessary that the area should be free from ploughing and less used as a pasture.
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