AGROECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CHERNOZEM SOIL PASPORTS FOR EVALUATION OF SOIL DEGRADATION

Main Article Content

L Stepanova Е Korenkova

Abstract

The price for sustainability of an agricultural landscape includes expenses on sustaining its production and ecological functions, such as nature protection. [2,3]. Natural landscape sustainability often does not hold any significance for agriculture, in particular, when an agricultural scientist is not interested in sustainability, but is interested in the landscape adaptability for melioration and reclamation. [1, 4-6]. In contrast to self-regulating functioning of a natural landscape, an agricultural landscape functions in a human-preset mode. Its sustainability is related to maintaining of the pre-planned functioning parameters (physical and chemical soil conditions, hydrolysis, etc.) by means of certain efforts. In this regard, a special significance is assigned to those indicators that describe soil production capacity and its environmental sustainability. According to the current requirements for soil evaluation, such indicators are included into the document known as “Soil Passport”.

Article Details

Section
Статьи

References

1. Agroecological condition of the Chernozems of the Central Chernozem Region. Under. Ed. Shcherbakova A.P., Vasenyova I.I. // Kursk, 1996. 326 p.
2. Anthropogenic evolution of chernozems. Voronezh: VSU. 2000. 412s.
3. Bezuglov O.S. Humus condition of soils of the south of Russia. Rostov-on-Don: Publishing house SKNTSVSH, 2001. 228 p.
4. Medvedev V.V. Physical degradation of chernozems. Diagnostics. Causes. Consequences. A warning. Х .: Publishing house City typography, 2013. 324 с.
5. Kiryushin V.I. Agronomical soil science. - Moscow: KolosS, 2010. 687 p.
6. Chernova O.V. On the creation of the Red Book of Soils of the Chernozem Zone of Russia // Pochvovedenie. 2002. № 12. P. 1495-1500.