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• Seasonal dynamics of actynomyces in Kaliningrad green zone soils

  The systematic and quantitative composition of Actinomyces (genus Streptomyces) in the soils of Kaliningrad was analysed according to the level of soil contamination. The authors proved the seasonal activity of Actinomyces in the soils of the city and identified the changes in the dependence between the number of Actinomyces and the temperature ...

• Climate change in the mountainous regions of the Republic of Tyva: The case of the Bay-Tayginsk district

  The most considerable increase in the temperature of soil surface was observed in the cold period (1,5 °С, a 53,9% rise in temperature), the smallest in August (0,3 °С, 2,1 %), whereas, in May-June, the increase was negative (–1,3 °С, 27,1 %). Major increases in air temperature take place in April-July,...

• Ferromanganese nodule neoformations in the soils of the western part of the Kaliningrad region

  This article examines the concretionary neoformations in soils: hardpans, tubular concretions, ironstone. The results of an analysis of the morphologic properties and chemical composition of concretions are presented. Concretions were found in most regional soils. The preliminary diagnostic significance was ...

• New data on air and soil temperature in vegetation communities of the Karakum Desert

  This article offers data on the temperature of surface air and soils in the aeration zone. The author comes to the conclusion that the soil temperature in the Karakum desert is favourable for the development of tree and shrubbery species. 1. Гунин П. Д., Дарымов В. Я., Вейисов С. Ландшафтная ...

• Topical Problems of Soil Microflora Study in Kaliningrad

  The article considers the main polluting factors of urban soils and estimates the impact of anthropogenic pressure on the quantitative and qualitative composition of soil microflora. The authors outline the prospects of research on the microflora of Kaliningrad soils situated in different ecological conditions....

• Ecological Series of Soils in the Deyma basin

  The article focuses on the diversity of the Deyma basin soil mantle in dependence on different factors of soil formation on two key spots. The author defines topographical (ecological) soil series, typical of boreal zone river basins. 1. Добровольский Г.   В. Научное и практическое ...

• About zonality of introzonality soils

  This article presents arguments to demonstrate that not only background soils (podzol, black earth), but also introzonal ones, which are irregularly deposited among the predominant soils, are subject to latitudinal zonality. 1. Докучаев В. В. К учению о зонах природы // Сочинения. Т....

• On Characteristic of Soils in Kaliningrad Parks

  The article examines the morphological structure, chemical and physical properties of soils in Kaliningrad city parks. 1. Анциферова О.   А. Почвенно-экологические условия в парках г. Калинин­града // Лесной комплекс: состояние и перспективы ...

• Comparative analysis of the groups of microorganisms in natural and anthropo-genically altered brown forest soils of the Kaliningrad Peninsula

  This article focuses on the numerical concentration of certain groups of microorganisms in the brown forest soils of natural and urbanised ecosystems of the Kaliningrad Peninsula. An analysis of the microflora was performed in spring, summer, and autumn 2012. This paper presents the average annual data for each key area. It is shown that human-altered ecosystems ...

• The morphological structure of the soils of the Kaliningrad peninsula natural ecosystems

  This article describes the soil mantle of the natural ecosystems of the Kaliningrad peninsula. The authors offer experimental data on the morphology structure and pH of the soils. 1. Анциферова О. А. Почвы Замландского полуострова и их ...

• The feature of soil mantle in Kaliningrad

  This article focuses on the main trends of changing in the morphological properties of urban soils. It was established that urbiquasisoils of a predominant sandy-loam grain-size composition and neutral medium reaction prevail in the Kaliningrad soil mantle. Soddy-podzol, soddy-gley, and brown forest (cambisols) soils are found in some parks and ...

• Ecological characteristics of test sites of Kaliningrad soils for microbiological monitoring

  This article offers an ecological analysis of urbanized ecosystem used for the microbiological monitoring of Kaliningrad soil. The authors show that the studied ecosystems differ in plant species diversity, types of soils, and physicochemical parameters, which must be taken into account when analyzing the soil microflora. 1. Дедков В. П., Куркина М. В....

• On the content of heavy metals in the soils of Kaliningrad urbanised ecosystems

  This article studies the quantitative content of heavy metals in the soils of Kaliningrad urban ecosystems. It is shown that urban soils are heavily contaminated with zinc and lead with an at least threefold excess of the TLV. The concentration of copper, nickel, and cobalt is closer to the TLV. The authors emphasize that ...

• The relevance of studying soil microflora in the vicinity of solid waste disposal sites (the case of Kaliningrad)

  This paper addresses the problem of solid waste disposal and considers the impact of disposal sites on the urban environment. The author examines the role of microorganisms in the process of soil self-purification and provides data on the condition of the soil microflora in Kaliningrad according to the level of pollution, as well as the ways to study the soil microflora in the vicinity of the disposal site in the suburb of Alexander Kosmodemyanski ...

• The buffer capacity of soils as alkalization ability

  The results of the author’s studies of Kaliningrad soil help characterize its buffer capacity to alkalization and identify the main reasons for the differences between the obtained and background values. The author proposes a set of methods to increase the buffering capacity of soils. 1. Алексеенко ...

• Oxidized iron horizons in the drained soils of the Kaliningrad region

  This article focuses on the morphology, content and formation conditions of different groups of iron horizontal neoformations in drained soils of agrolandscapes, namely, oxidized ochric horizons, hard layers (crusts), and ortsand. Fe, P, As, Ni are accumulated in neoformations. 1. Доклад о состоянии и использовании земель Калининградской ...

• On the heat reactor of desert soils and its roel in the formation of water reserves during summer

  Experimental research helps explain the mechanism of formation of water reserves in the soils of desert phytocenoses. The author arrives at a conclusion about the development of seasonal heat reactor in deserts, which affects the processes of night water condensation in soils in summer. 1. Бобровская Н. И. Водный режим ...

• Land Use Change and Economics of Land Degradation in the Baltic Region

  ... of ecosystem services, Foundation for Sustainable Development, Wageningen, the Netherlands. 8. Latvia MOE (Ministry of Environment), 2006, National report to the UNCCD, History of the convention and its ratification by Latvia. 9. Karklins, A. 2000, Soil degradation status and data availability in Latvia. In: Batjes N and Bridges E, Implementation of a Soil Degradation and Vulnerability database for Central and Eastern Europe, FAO and ISRIC, Rome, Italy. 10. Dedkov, V., Nikitina, S. 2015, Nature ...

• Transformation of developed lands and geoecological potential of nature resource management

  The article cartographically visualizes spatial typologies of the municipal districts of the North-Eastern Caucasus according to the degree of soil erosion as a result of water and wind erosion, salinization and dehumification. Water erosion is most actively manifested in foothill and mountainous areas on steep landslide slopes with high plowing. Wind erosion of the soil cover is most visible ...

• The maintenance of guaiazulene in the essence of common yarrow growing on different soils

  The method of gas chromatography-spectrometry was used for the qualitative and quantitative identification of the composition of essential oil obtained from common yarrow growing in different soils in the climatic zone of the Kaliningrad region. The authors established that, depending on the type of soil, the content of сhamazulene and other components in essential oil can vary across a wide oncentration range. 1. Атлас ареалов ...

• New Data on Some Microorganism Groups in Kaliningrad Soils

  The article presents the preliminary results concerning the quantitative content of nitrogen-fixing, cellulose-eliminating microorganisms and microorganisms using the mineral forms of nitrogen and microscopic fungi in Kaliningrad soils under different environmental conditions. 1. Влияние автотранспорта на окружающую среду в городах России. URL : www.transpenv.org.ru 2. Доклад о состоянии и об охране ...

• Distribution of heavy metals in the soils and vegetation in urban ecosystems of Kaliningrad region

  Some peculiarities of heavy metals concentrations in the accumulating layer of the urban soils and leafs of Acer platanoides and Populus alba are presented. Dependence between physical and chemical features, geochemical structure of landscapes, concentration and distribution of heavy metals is established. Correlation between similar parameters ...

• Glycerol Biotransformation by Nonproliferating Cells of Gluconobacter oxydans

  The article presents the preliminary results concerning the quantitative content of nitrogen-fixing, cellulose-eliminating microorganisms and microorganisms using the mineral forms of nitrogen and microscopic fungi in Kaliningrad soils under different environmental conditions. 1. Arun Gurpa , Vinay K . Singh , G .   N . Qazi , Anil Kumar . Gluconobacter oxydans : Its Bio­tech­nological Applications // Mol. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 2001.Vol. 3. P. 445—456. 2. Кустова ...

• The impact of changes in dissolved organic carbon concentration in a solution on the sorption of platinum compounds

  This article considers the impact of changing dissolved organic carbon concentration in a solution on the sorption of platinum (II), (IV) compounds (K2PtCl4, H2PtCl6) at different soil horizons. The authors prove that even small concentrations of dissolved organic carbon play an important role in platinum sorption in soil and background minerals. 1. Benjamin M. M., Leckie J. O. Conceptual Model for Metal-Ligand-Surface Interactions ...

• Soil Biology

• Soil science and botany

• Mathematical modelling of filtration processes of moisture in heavy soils

  A mathematical model of filtration of moisture in heavy soils. The transfer of a film of moisture on the surface took into account. 1. Hallaire M. Le potential efficace de l’eau dans le sol en regime de dessechement // L’eau et production vegetale. Paris: I. N. R. A., 1964. P. 27—62. 2. Нерпин ...

• The features of heavy metal accumulation in forest mushrooms in the Kaliningrad region

  ... mushrooms was determined using AAS techniques. It is established that certain mushroom species accumulate cadmium and silver, whereas the most pronounced ability is found in Boletus edulis. The correla-tion between the concentration of metals in the upper soil layer and fruiting bodies is questionable, however, areas in the vicinity of emission sources are characterized by a tendency of heavy metal accumulation Цветнова О. Б., Шатрова Н. М., Щеглов A. M. Накопление радионуклидов ...

• The biogeochemical activity of exotic gymnosperm species in industrial urbanised ecosystems

  ... high level of anthropo-genic pollution (Russia’s Non-Black Earth zone). The author examines data on the biogeochemical activity of Thuja occidentalis, Juníperus sabína, and Picea pungens in the conditions of polymetallic contamination of air and soils in the area affected by iron and steel plants. It is shown that most Gym-nospermae species accumulate such macroelements as K, Ca, and Cl. Thuja occidentalis accumulates V, Cr, Fe, Ni, and As in the area affected by iron and steel plants and is ...

• Trends in agrarian land use and the nutrient balance values ensuring an increase in land fertility

  This article analyses major trends in agricultural land use in the Kaliningrad region (the proportions of fallow land, tilled crops, grassland). The author suggests a methodology for calculating soil nutrient balance tested on a farm. 1. Вовлечение в сельскохозяйственное производство не используемых по це¬ле¬во¬му назначению земель сельскохозяйственного ...

• Modelling long-term dynamics of humus content in the mixed forests soils in the Pregel River Basin

  The long-term dynamics of humus in the mixed forests soils of in the Pregolya River Basin was modeled and analyzed for 1960—2015. Evapotranspiration values were calculated and a dynamics analysis of this parameter for period 1960—2015 was carried out. The impact of changes in meteorological factors ...

• The characteristic of the vegetative land cover of the Kaliningrad peninsula ecosystems

  This article offers an ecological analysis of natural ecosystems used in the monitoring of the microflora of soil lands. The authors characterize the soilvegetation cover of the ecosystems of the Kaliningrad Peninsula. The difference in the species composition of phytocenoses and their environmental conditions is identified. 1. Дедков В. П., Куркина ...

• About a role of vegetation of deserts of Central Asia in climate change

  This article focuses on the temperature of various underlying surfaces (rubble-rock on hamadas, sand on the beds of temporary streams, plants) in the southern steppes of Mongolia. The authors present a comparative analysis of soil and plant temperature and address the issue of the impact of overgrowing of desert areas on climate change on Earth. 1. Дедков В. П. Экологическая ниша и водный баланс доминантов пустынных ...

• The impact of environmental factors on the distribution of Macoma balthica (Linnaeus 1758) and Mytilus edulis (Linnaeus 1758) in the southeastern part of the Baltic Sea

  ... research on the influence of environmental factors on the distribution of two abundant bivalve species – Macoma balthica and Mytilus eduli – in the south-east of the Baltic Sea. First of all, the distribution of species was determined by the types of soils. The distribution of molluscs in deep-water sectors was limited by oxygen deficiency in near-bottom waters. 1. Гусев А.   А., Урбанович О.   А. Видовой состав и экологическая характеристи­ка ...

• Social and Economic Space Compression in Border Areas: the Case of the Northwestern Federal District

  ... gosudarstvennogo regulirovanija [Compression of the socio-economic area: a new theory of regional development and its practice of state regulation], Moscow, p. 32—48. 2. Edinyj gosudarstvennyj reestr pochv Rossii [Unified State Register of Russian soil], available at: http://atlas.mcx.ru/materials/egrpr/content.html (accessed 10.03.2015). 3. Yepifanova, А. А., Luhmanov, D. N. 2010, Transformacija zaselennosti sel'skoj mestnosti Central'nogo Chernozem'ja (1959—2008gg.) [Transformation of the ...

• The seasonal dynamics of gramnegative bacteria in the microflora of soils, water and the body of European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) in the Vistula lagoon

  This article considers the species composition of the opportunistic pathogenic microbial flora and offers a correlation analysis of the seasonal dynamics of the gram-negative microflora in the European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) and the water and soil of the Russian part of the Vistula Lagoon. The authors determine the epizootic bacteria species pathogenic for the eel. The seasonal dynamics of species diversity of bacteria in the eel's microflora helps to determine how bacteria penetrate the organism ...

• Verification modified model bio productivity EPIC at regional level

  ... его сравнение со штатным алгоритмом SMOS // Известия вузов. Физика. 2012.Т. 55, № 8—3. С. 145—148. 13. Mironov V. L., Komarov S. A., Evtyushkin A. V., Rychkova N. V. Integrated experiment to soil moisture content in the Altai test area // Earth Observation and remote sensing. 2000. № 16(2). P.301—312. Yevtyushkin A., Bryksin V., Rychkova N., Khvorova L. remote sensing, space images, sub-satellite experiments, crop productivity, soil ...

• Processes of transfer of moisture in porous medium

  An comparative analysis for models of soil transfer of moisture on theory of moisture potential and capillary description is carried out. 1. Веригин Н. Н, Васильев С. В, Саркисян В. С, Шержуков Б. С. Гидродинамиче­ские и физико-химические ...

• A fractal model of filtration in the work of a drainage

  A model of filtration in the drainage system that takes into account the fractal properties of soil. 1. Беданокова С. Ю. Математическое моделирование солевого режима почв с фрактальной структурой // Вестник Самарского гос. техн. ун-та....

• The effect of railway network evolution on the Kaliningrad region’s landscape environment

  ... Kaliningrad region – modern (functioning) and relic (abandoned) ones. In the Kaliningrad region, the process of land reclamation of the railway system starts when the maintenance of railroads is discontinued, which is followed by the formation of primitive soils and emerging biocenoses enhanced by fill soils and artificial relief. 1. Batyrev, V. M. 1988, Vokzaly [Station], Moscow, 214 p. 2. Gause, F. 1994, Königsberg in Preußen. Die Geschichte der europäischen Stadt [Konigsberg in Prussia. The history ...

• On the influence of lithogenic factors on the condition of motorways in the Smolensk region

  ... Экструдированный пенополистирол термоплэкс. URL: www.termoplex.ru 2. Автомобильные дороги : СНиП 2.05.02-85. М., 1986. Shkalikov V. A., Byshevskaya A. V. lithology, motorways, natural complexes, hard surface, soils, hillock, erosion. 8-16

• Processing fat-based sludge by vermicomposting

  ... generated as a waste from the food enterprise in the Kaliningrad region through vermicomposting to obtain environmentally friendly bio-fertilizer. The research focused on chemical composition and physicochemical properties of fat-containing sludge and soil samples before and after the process of vermicomposting. The bioferti­lizer has been studied to conform to the basic regulatory indicators, and the main indicators: pH, organic matter and total phosphorus were assessed to meet the requirements for ...

• The eco-geochemical assessment of the zone of dumped waste from the Tuvacobalt industrial complex in the Republic of Tuva

  ... заболеваемости населения Сибири и Дальнего Востока. Томск, 2001. Andreichik М. F. industrial complex waste, deficient waste disposal technologies, high non-ferrous metal content, facility destruction, soil and water pollution. 21-27

• Identification of palladium and rhodium mobility in atmospheric precipitation

  ... Rhodium in Umweltmaterialien an der Bundesautobahn A5 (Akm 458-Akm 524) // Emissionen von Platinmetallen / hrsg. F. Zereini, F. Alt. Berlin, 1999. P. 147—159. 2. Ure A. M., Quevauviller P., Muntau H., Griepink B. Speciation of heavy metals in soils and sediments. An account of the improvement and harmonization of extraction techniques undertaken under the auspices of the BCR of the Comission of the European Communities Intern // J. Environ. Anal. Chem. 1993. № 51. P. 135—151. 3. Bourg ...

• The environmental characteristics of meadow plants of the Kaliningrad region

  ... analyses the environmental features of the dominant species of upland meadow plants. The authors identify their relation to a certain fraction of ecological valence according to ten ecological factors as well as the index of the plants’ tolerance to soil and climatic factors. 1. Жукова Л. А. Методология и методика определения экологической валентности, стеноэврибионтности видов растений // Методы ...

• The results of geochemical study of occupation earth of the Ryadino 5 archaeological site

  ... памятники Ловатско-Двинского междуречья // Неолит и энеолит Юга и неолит Севера Восточной Европы. СПб., 2003. С. 260—267. 4. Holliday V. T., Gartner W. G. Methods of soil P analysis in archaeology // Journal of archaeological science. 2007. Vol. 34. Р. 301—333. 5. Middleton W. D., Price T. D. Identification of activity areas by Multi-element characterization of sediments from modern and archaeological house floors ...

• A capillary model of moisture transport under conditions of drainage systems

  Moisture transport in soils under conditions of drainage on the basis of an agreed account of the capillary and the description of moisture transfer on porous surfaces is simulated. 1. Кащенко Н. М., Ковалев В. П. Расчет линейных польдерных ...

• The use of geographic information analysis to solve the problem of ensuring the security of the Kaliningrad region’s population

  The paper is devoted to two issues of ensuring population safety that are specific to the Kaliningrad region – the recording and mapping of located World War II ammunition and calculation of damage associated with devas-tating polder soil flooding. It is proposed to use SQL queries technology com-plemented by the spatial buffering functions and overlays to solve the first problem and the construction of digital spatial terrain models and calculation of volumes of overlay transactions ...

• The use of a gas discharge visualization technique at estimation the antioxidant status of plants in the conditions of cadmium toxic effect

  This article presents an evaluation of the antioxidant status of plants with the use of the GDV-method under the toxic effect of cadmium. A high concentration of Сd in the soil is proven to stimulate the accumulation of anthocyans, carotenoids, and acorbic acid and to contribute to a reduction in the concentration of water-soluble antioxidants in the leaves of the plants under consideration. It is shown that GDV-entropy ...

• The bioindication of heavy metal precipitation in the Kaliningrad region

  ... Интеркарто/ИнтерГИС-15 «Устойчивое развитие терри­торий. Теория ГИС и практический опыт». Пермь , 2009. С . 576—581. 7. Rahn K.   A. A Graphical Technique for Distinguish Plant Material and Soil from Atmospheric Deposition in Biomonitors // Proceedings BioMAp-1997. Lisboa, 1997. P. 47—62. 8. Yuana H., Rahn K.   A., Zhuang G. Graphical techniques for interpreting the com­position of individual aerosol particles // Atmospheric Environment....