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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 spatial scales with the increasing detail: 1) main soil types of the Teberda Reserve, 2) soils of the alpine study area, 3) soils of studied toposequences (catena) of 4 alpine plant communities (alpine lichen heath, Festuca varia grassland, Geranium-Hedysarum meadow, snowbed community) which are the 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.
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Malysheva, T.I., Makarov, M.I., Onipchenko, V.G., Volkov, A.V., Bulatnikova, I.V. (2004). Soils and nutrient turnover. In: Onipchenko, V.G. (eds) Alpine Ecosystems in the Northwest Caucasus. Geobotany 29, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2383-5_2
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