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Soils оf Oligomesotrophic аnd Mesotrophic Bogs in the Boreal Zone of West Siberia: Possibilities of Botanical Diagnostics within the Framework of the Type of Mesotrophic Peat Soils

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Despite the widespread use of the taxon “mesotrophic (transitional) peat soils” in the present-day Russian and foreign pedology, including some fundamental publications in this field, its diagnostic features are still uncertain, and this taxon is not included in the recent classification of Russian soils. The proposed criteria based on botanical features—botanical composition of peat soils and indicator plants—will allow separating mesotrophic type from eutrophic and oligotrophic types of peat soils. Special attention is paid to the distinction between mesotrophic and oligotrophic peat soils in accordance with the specific features of mires in northern West Siberia. Among 32 peat soil profiles studied in the Numto Nature Park, 19 profiles were classified as mesotrophic peat soils and 13 profiles, as oligotrophic soils. Owing to the spatial and temporal dynamics of vegetation in large- and flat-topped mound peat complexes, the soils of their hollows (flarks) were in most cases assigned to the oligotrophic type. The soils of aapa mires, as well as mires on low alluvial terraces, river floodplains, and runoff hollows dissecting slopes of the Sibirskie Uvaly Ridge were mainly classified as mesotrophic peat soils.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to N.V. Stoikina (Institute of Biology, Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences) for performing botanical analysis of peat.

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This work was performed within the framework of the state budgetary themes of the Faculty of Soil Science of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Institute of Biology of the Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (state assignment AAAA-A19-119062590056-0), and the Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute; and supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 19-05-50063.

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  1. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    N. A. Avetov

  2. Institute of Biology, Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Pushkinskaya 11, 185910, Petrozavodsk, Russia

    O. L. Kuznetsov

  3. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute, per. Pyzhevskii 7, 119017, Moscow, Russia

    E. A. Shishkonakova

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Avetov, N.A., Kuznetsov, O.L. & Shishkonakova, E.A. Soils оf Oligomesotrophic аnd Mesotrophic Bogs in the Boreal Zone of West Siberia: Possibilities of Botanical Diagnostics within the Framework of the Type of Mesotrophic Peat Soils. Eurasian Soil Sc. 54, 689–701 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229321030029

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