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Chemical contamination of adygea soils and changes in their biological properties

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Soil pollution with Cr, Cu, Ni, and Pb oxides and with oil products in the Adygea Republic leads to the deterioration of the soil biological properties. According to the degree of deterioration of the biological properties, the soils of Adygea may be arranged into the following sequence: brown forest soils > mountainous meadow (subalpine) soils > gray forest soils > soddy calcareous soils = leached vertic chernozems. With respect to the negative effect of heavy metal oxides on the biological properties of the soils, they form the following sequence: CrO3 > CuO = PbO ≥ NiO.

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  1. Faculty of Biology and Soil Science, Yuzhnyi Federal University, ul. Bol’shaya Sadovaya 105, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia

    S. I. Kolesnikov, K. Sh. Kazeev & V. F. Val’kov

  2. Faculty of Agrarian Technologies, Maikop State Technological University, ul. Pervomaiskaya 191, Maikop, Republic of Adygeya, 385000, Russia

    Z. R. Tlekhas

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Original Russian Text © S.I. Kolesnikov, Z.R. Tlekhas, K.Sh. Kazeev, V.F. Val’kov, 2009, published in Pochvovedenie, 2009, No. 12, pp. 1499–1505.

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Kolesnikov, S.I., Tlekhas, Z.R., Kazeev, K.S. et al. Chemical contamination of adygea soils and changes in their biological properties. Eurasian Soil Sc. 42, 1397–1403 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229309120102

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