Место издания:Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht, Boston, London
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Аннотация:Mountain soils are highly variable and their properties depend on several abiotic (climate, geology, slope processes etc.) as well as biotic (vegetation, animal and microbial activity etc.) factors. In this chapter we consider soils of the studied area at several scales with increasing details: 1) main soil types of the Teberda Reserve, 2) soils of alpine area, 3) soils of studied toposequence (catena) of 4 alpine plant communities (alpine lichen heath, Festuca varia grassland, Geranium-Hedysarum meadow, snowbed community) which are main objects of experimental research; 4) features of nutrient storage and turnover in alpine communities. Soil variability within the communities is described in Chapter 5.3. In a separate chapter (5.4.) we present the influence of plant species on soil nutrients in monoculture experiment.