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Russian Journal of EcologyVolume 46, Issue 3, 29 May 2015, Pages 213-221

Specific features of soils and herbaceous plant communities in industrially polluted areas of the Middle Urals(Article)

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  • aNizhny Tagil State Social Pedagogical Academy, ul. Krasnogvardeiskaya 27, Nizhny Tagil, 622031, Russian Federation
  • bInstitute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vos’mogo Marta 202, Yekaterinburg, 620144, Russian Federation

Abstract

Anthropogenic transformation of soils and specific features of herbaceous plant communities have been studied in areas polluted with heavy metals. With regard to landscape and edaphic conditions, all test areas have been divided into two groups: agrozems and technozems. Phytocenoses in test areas of the background and buffer zones belong to the glycophytic variant of meadow vegetation type and to the premeadow stage of progressive succession, respectively. Chemical pollution leads to a decrease in coefficients of similarity between communities and an increase in taxonomic diversity due to reduction in species saturation of genera and families, with a rise in the proportion of monotypic taxa. The influence of chemical pollution on the species saturation of plant communities is stronger than that of community type and coverage of species. © 2015, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.

Author keywords

agrozemscoverage of speciesheavy metalsherbaceous phytocenosesspecies saturationsyntaxonomic characteristicstaxonomic richness and diversitytechnozems

Indexed keywords

GEOBASE Subject Index:anthropogenic effectatmospheric pollutionbuffer zonechemical pollutantheavy metalherbmeadowplant communitysaturationsoil pollutionspecies diversityspecies richnesssuccessiontaxonomyvegetation type
Regional Index:Urals

Funding details

Funding sponsor Funding number Acronym
12-I-4-2051,12-I-4-2057
13-04-96056-r_ural_a
  • ISSN: 10674136
  • CODEN: RJOEE
  • Source Type: Journal
  • Original language: English
  • DOI: 10.1134/S1067413615030133
  • Document Type: Article
  • Publisher: Maik Nauka Publishing / Springer SBM

  Zhuikova, T.V.; Nizhny Tagil State Social Pedagogical Academy, ul. Krasnogvardeiskaya 27, Nizhny Tagil, Russian Federation
© Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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