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Modern Floodplain-Oxbow Deposits in the Middle Reaches of the Kamchatka River: The Results of Group Bioanalysis

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A comparative study of modern flood sediments (floodplain alluvium) and sediments of the initial stage of overgrowing of oxbow lakes (oxbow alluvium) in the middle reaches of the Kamchatka River has been performed for the first time using group bioanalysis. The differences in the percentage of different forms of diatoms and microresidues of higher plants have been revealed. The comparison of diatom complexes in the studied samples with analogous data on sediments in large lakes of Kamchatka attests to fundamental differences between these objects. Two genera of diatoms (Cyclotella and Stephanodiscus) are absent or are found in insignificant amounts in floodplain and oxbow alluvium. Bioresidues in sediments from flood water and in large long-living lakes differ in their composition. The results may be used to identify buried alluvium sediments in Central Kamchatka.

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  1. The concept of group is not systematic, but ecological. A group may signify any systematic unit of organisms: division, class, order, genus, or species. Their specification into ecological groups is based on the fact that during the evolution, all or most representatives of each of them developed similar requirements for particular environmental conditions.

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This work was performed in agreement with the state assignment of the Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (no. 0135-2019-0059) and was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project nos. 17-05-00352 (terrain study and laboratory analyses) and 20-05-00085 (data analysis and writing).

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Uspenskaya, O.N., Pevzner, M.M. & Karimov, T.D. Modern Floodplain-Oxbow Deposits in the Middle Reaches of the Kamchatka River: The Results of Group Bioanalysis. Eurasian Soil Sc. 54, 551–559 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229321040177

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