Biological productivity predictors of watershed and outwash plain terrains in Voronezh uphill oakery

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The article studies the trophogenic potential of soil-forming rocks and soils of watershed and outwash plain terrains in Voronezh upland oak forest as an integral component of the urban forested area. It was established that the original soil-forming rocks of the studied types of the terrain are composed of 96 % sand, mostly of medium grain. The share of siltstone is 64,2 kg, and silt-and-clay — 2,7 kg. As a result, forest soil formation in the sand habitat, which lasted 70 years, the amount of clay in the rooting depth layer (2 m) increased from 2,7 to 36,7 kg/m2. In the heavy fraction of the fluvioglacial sands of the watershed and outwash plain terrains, minerals that are resistant to physico-chemical weathering are predominant. The total mineral content of heavy fractions is 0,11 %, or 1,1 kg per ton of rock. Pinus silvestris L. stands created on middle-quaternary fluvio-glacial sands synthesized 91,6 t/ha of organic matter over 70 years, which corresponds to 962 106 kJ/ha of energy. An artificially created landscape ecosystem, accumulating potentially active energy and biochemical elements in living and dead organic matter, is gradually creating a humus accumulation horizon of soil cover. Carbon deposition in the rooting depth layer is 28,3 t/ha. The artificially created forest landscapes of watershed and outwash plain terrains of forest- steppe have very low forest potential and are close to destruction, however they have fulfilled their tasks and require further research, monitoring and increasing the biomass, including increasing the undergrowth.

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Elena N. Тikhonova

Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov (VSFTU)

Author for correspondence.
Email: tichonova-9@mail.ru

Cand. Sci (Biol.), Head of Landscape Architecture and Soil Science Department

Russian Federation, 8, Timiryazeva st., 394087, Voronezh

Gennadiy A. Odnoralov

Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov (VSFTU)

Email: kafedra.laip@inbox.ru

Cand. Sci (Biol.), Associate Professor

Russian Federation, 8, Timiryazeva st., 394087, Voronezh

Ella I. Тreschevskaya

Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov (VSFTU)

Email: ehllt@yandex.ru

Dr. Sci (Agric.), Professor of Silviculture, Selection and Forest melioration Department

Russian Federation, 8, Timiryazeva st., 394087, Voronezh

Nikolay N. Kharchenko

Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov (VSFTU)

Email: forest.vrn@gmail.com

Dr. Sci. (Biol.), Professor of Ecology, forest protection and forest hunting Department

Russian Federation, 8, Timiryazeva st., 394087, Voronezh

Inna V. Golyadkina

Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov (VSFTU)

Email: golyadkina@post.vgltu.ru

Cand. Sci (Agric.), Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture and Soil Science Department

Russian Federation, 8, Timiryazeva st., 394087, Voronezh

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