Intelligent automated control of abiotic water and thermal stress in greenhouses for the optimization of pre-basic potato production Abstract The projected 50 % increase in global food demand by 2050, coupled with declining freshwater availability and climate change, highlights the urgent need for more efficient agricultural practices. This study presents the development and implementation of…
Category: soil
A review of digital soil mapping in Russia
Abstract Russia stands at the origins of world soil cartography. Given Russia’s vast and diverse territories, the production of current soil maps is an important task in the context of global climate change and food demand. This article provides a review of the digital soil mapping (DSM) field in Russia by identifying trends and research gaps. We examined studies published…
Tea bag monitoring of soil quality across 3000km of European Russia
Abstract The increasing popularity and recognition of citizen science approaches to monitor soil health have promoted the idea to assess soil microbial decomposition based on a standard litter sample – tea bags. Although tea bag initiatives are expanding across the world, the global datasets remain biased in regard to investigating regions and biomes. This study…
Forest communities of the Green Book for Bryansk
In full (RU)AbstractTo identify and describe the forest communities of the Green Book of the Bryansk region, the habitats of 10 natural monuments have been surveyed. Forest communities are represented by formations of oak forests and ash forests. Thanks to biomonitoring work followed by analysis of syntaxonomic diversity, observation bases have been created for 6…
Measuring freezing and thawing in the Kola peatlands with GPR
The active layer of permafrost which freezes and thaws is seasonally monitored using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) for variation in activity and thickness, especially in response to recent climate change. Ryazantsev wanted to find out whether GPR can provide useful information about thermal factors such as soil temperature change, thermal insulation and thermal conductivity. Remote sensing…
Climate change and soil happiness in Leningrad region
Russia has a lot of soil. Russian scientists have been investigating it for centuries and pointeered soil science through researchers such as Dokuchaev, Dokuchaeva, Glazoskaya, Glinka and others. Large soil data projects managed by land institutes e.g. GIZPROZEMs have since been updated using satellite data. Current researchers conducted an agroecological assessment. They investigated land suitable…
Forest carbon capture in the Russian carbon market
As part of Russia’s implementation of the Paris agreement, original plans and strategies suggested targets for net absorption in managed forests between 620 – 2500 mln tonnes of CO2e by 2030 (Romanovskaya, 2023). She suggests that 1.2bln tonnes CO2e by 2050 is still possible but needs restructuring of forest management systems. Also identification and validation…
What happens to the forest floor after Siberian wildfires?
The main tree species in the Siberian taiga are larch, Scots pine, fir, spruce, Siberian pine and birch. Lightning is more a frequent cause of wildfires in northern Siberia with anthropogenic activity causing wildfires further south, however central and eastern Siberia have been more affected overall by wildfires. They decrease soil quality (organic matter, structure,…
Carbon update from the Ladoga polygon
The Ladoga polygon is part of a network of carbon monitoring sites, with Ladoga providing data for this north-west region of Russia. It stores large volumes of carbon in soils, approx 208 tC/ha which is the largest volume outside of permafrost affected soil. The region has not had any significant agricultural activity for over 40…
Climate Change and organic carbon in Rostov soils
Research has shown that there is an accumulation limit for organic carbon in Chernozem (black) soils, resulting in carbon emissions once that limit has been reached. Agricultural management practices can include crop rotation, fallowing, residue management and fertilisation to counter the less carbon-rich soils as they arise. The researchers previously studied a 40 year period…
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