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Soil cover patterns and land assessment in the Baikal region of Buryatia using the example of the Kabansk district

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The soil cover patterns in the Kabansk district (the Baikal region of the Buryat Republic), including the Selenga River delta, are analyzed. A soil map of this area has been developed on a scale of 1 : 500000. Stony organic soils are widespread in the tundra zone. Mountain-meadow soddy soils and tundra podburs (under dwarf pine) are formed at lower heights around lakes and in glacial valleys. Kabansk district includes taiga landscapes on the northern slopes of the Khamar-Daban Ridge with the predominance of podburs, podzols, soddy-taiga soils, and burozems. Agrolandscapes occur in the Nizhneselenginsk meadow-bog and forest-steppe natural region with a predominance of soddy forest, soddy gray forest, meadow, alluvial, meadow-bog, and bog soils. Data on the land evaluation in the agricultural part of the studied region are given.

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  1. Institute of General and Experimental Biology, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. M. Sakh’yanovoi 6, Ulan-Ude, 670047, Buryat Republic, Russia

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Original Russian Text © Ts.Ts. Tsybikdorzhiev, S.O. Khodoeva, B.-M.N. Gonchikov, 2012, published in Pochvovedenie, 2012, No. 4, pp. 398–407.

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Tsybikdorzhiev, T.T., Khodoeva, S.O. & Gonchikov, B.M.N. Soil cover patterns and land assessment in the Baikal region of Buryatia using the example of the Kabansk district. Eurasian Soil Sc. 45, 348–356 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229312040151

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