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Specific features of soil microbial colonies in industry-affected mountainous-taiga permafrost landscapes in the El’kon uranium ore district on the territory of South Yakutia are revealed: a high number of ecological trophic groups of microorganisms (2.0 × 103 −7.6 × 107 cells/g), comparable to the density of microbes in meadow steppe soils of Central Yakutia and a special nature of their distribution over the soil profile depending on the uranium content of the soil. In the soil of a uranium-contaminated pit, the number of individuals in all examined groups of microorganisms increases with a decrease in uranium content to 161 ppm. In the remaining samples of this pit, the disappearance of microorganisms or their decline by one or two orders of magnitude with increasing uranium content of the soil is observed. A different situation is with microorganisms in the soil of native landscape: Their numbers remain there high over the entire soil profile. Estimated correlations between the number of individuals of the main ecological trophic groups of microorganisms and factors such as uranium content, temperature, and humidity of soil shows that the relationship with the concentration of this radionuclide was strongly negative (r = −0.6) in the radiation-contaminated alluvial soil, while a strict relationship between the number of microorganisms and soil temperature was revealed for the uncontaminated soil (r = ±1).
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Original Russian Text © T.I. Ivanova, N.P. Kuz’mina, S.V. Petrova, A.P. Chevychelov, A.P. D’yachkovskii, 2009, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2009, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 37–44.
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Ivanova, T.I., Kuz’mina, N.P., Petrova, S.V. et al. Soil microbial communities in the zone of uranium deposits of the Central Aldan (South Yakutia). Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 2, 27–32 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425509010056
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