Physical Status of Soils Developed from Loesslike Loams in the Southwest of the Central Russian Plain （the Belogor＇e Reserve）.pdfVIP

JournalofEnvironmentalScienceandEngineeringB3(2014)300—303 doi：10．17265／2162．5263／2014．06．002 PhysicalStatusofSoilsDevelopedfrom Loesslike LoamsintheSouthwestoftheCentraIRussianPlain (theBelogor’eReserve) OlegRomanov DepartmentofSoilScienceandSoilEcology，St．PetersburgStateUniversity,St．Petersburg，99178，Russia Abstract：SoilsdevelopedfromtheQuaternaryloesslikeloamshavebeenstudiedinthesouthoftheforest—steppezoneonthe CentralRussianUpland．A polygeneticnatureofthesoilprofileontheloesslikeloamsisshown．Themodem pedogeneticprocesses inthissoilensureitseluvial—illuvialdifferentiationwithhtedevelopmentofmultilayeredcoatingsintheilluvialhorizon．Them iddle horizonsinthestudiedsoilprofilesarereferredtoastexutral(clay—illuvia1)horizons．Differencesinphysicalsoilproperties(bulk density，airconductivity，texture，watercontent，andtemperaturedynamics)werestudiedinthesoilontheloesslikeloam． Keywords：Physicalsoilproperties，bulkdensity，texture，watercontent，loesslikeloam 1．Introduction 2．ObjectsandMethods TheGSP(GlobalSoilPartnership)attheFoodand Thesoilshavebeen sutdiedunderanuplandoak Agriculture Organization of the United Nations groveontherightbankoftheVorsklaRiverwithin recognizes the urgent need to raise awareness to theBelogor’eNaturalReserv e．The choice ofthese promote sustainability ofthe limited soilresources key pitsused forthe ufrtheranalyticalstudy was andhasdeclared 2015asthe “Intemationa1Yearof basedonthepreliminaryregular-gridsamplinginthe Soils”．Graysoilsarethefoundation forfood，animal entireareaandthesutdyofseveralsoilcatenas．The feed，fuelandnaturalfiberproduction，thesupplyof indicesofsoilhorizonsandthetaxonomicpositionof cleanwater，nutrientcyclingandarangeofecosystem soilswere detemr in