Restoration of the Soil and Vegetation in Sandy Land with Different Stages of Deflation
Abstract
The aim of this work is to reveal the features of fallow sandy lands with different stages of deflation. The virgin soil-vegetation cover was the reference point: plots with light and strong deflation were compared with it. The soil deflation stages were determined by the presence or absence of layers characteristic of the background
soils of the territory. The restoration of vegetation depends on the activity of wind erosion, the properties of the soils and substrata emerging on the soil surface. Studies have shown that the soil properties of deflated plots contradict the background and classical schemes of fallow land recovery.
Keywords: Trasbaikalia, Barguzin Depression, sandy lands, plant-soil cover, soil deflation, vegetation restoration
References
[1] Bornkamm, R. (1998). Mechanisms of succession on fallow land. Vegetatio, vol. 77, no.1/3, pp. 95–101.
[2] Gadghiev, I. M., Korolyuk, A. Yu., Tytlyanova, A. A., et al. (2002). Steppes of Inner Asia. Novosibirsk: SD RAS Publisher.
[3] Sun, J., Liu, M., Li, S., et al. (2011). Survival strategy of stipa krylovii and agropyron cristatum in typical steppe of Inner Mongolia. Acta Ecologica Sinica, vol. 31, no. 8, pp. 2148–2159.
[4] Wang, S. and Wang, Y. (2001). Study on over-compensation growth of Cleistogenes squarrosa population in inner Mongolia Steppe. Acta Botanica Sinica, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 413–418.
[5] Gunin, P. D. (1995). Ecology of Desertification Processes in Arid Ecosystems. Moscow: Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
[6] Karnieli, A. and Tsoar, H. (1995). Spectral reflectance of biogenic crust developed on desert dune sand along the Israel-Egypt border. International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 2, no. 16, pp. 369–374.
[7] Orlovsky, L., Dourikov, M., and Babaev, A. (2004). Temporal dynamics and productivity of biogenic soil crusts in the Central Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan. Journal of Arid Environments, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 579–601.
[8] Zhang, Y. M., Chen, J., Wang, L., et al. (2007). The spatial distribution patterns of biological soil crusts in the Gurbantunggut Desert, Northern Xinjiang, China. Journal of Arid Environments, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 599–610.
[9] Sizykh, A., Voronin, V., Griczenuk, A., et al. (2012). The structure of the plant communities in different environment contact sites on the basis of soil-geobotanic profiling in the changing climate of the Lake Baikal Region. Natural Science, vol. 4, no. 10, pp. 771–777.
[10] Tsygankov, A. A., Livinovsky, B. A., Jahn, B. M., et al. (2010). Sequence of magmatic events in the late paleozoic of Transbaikalia Russia (U-Pb Isotope Data). Russian Geology and Geophysics, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 972–994.
[11] Ubugunov, V. L. and Ubugunova, V. I. (2017). Soil-forming rocks are the key to understanding soil formation uniqueness in West Transbaikalia. Nature of Inner Asia, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 37–50.