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In severe climatic and specific landscape conditions of Antarctica birds play an important role in transportation of organic matter of guano to the coastal landscapes. It has been shown that redistribution of guano components affects the speed of soil cover spatial development and formation of new polypedons of soils in environments, surrounding rookeries. Soils development is also affected by flying birds’ transportation activity, while they transport the viable diasporas of plants, material of limpet shells, etc. This affects an initial or additional colonization of rocks being in distance from the coasts, sources of seed, and organic matter. Soils of Antarctica formed under effect of bird activity are the following: the most known typical ornithosols of the current penguin rockeries, post-Ornithosols, developed during post-Ornithogenic succession and organic lithosols formed in the areas of flying sea birds nesting and feeding areas due to limited nitrification and viable plant material and diasporas transportation.
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Great acknowledgments are made to L. Kurbatova and I. Dyyky for kindly granted photos, to National Scientific Antarctic Center MS of Ukraine and Russian Antarctic Expedition, NSF and V. Papitashvili, Dr. I. Kozeretska and prof. V. Kunakh for logistic assistance and scientific support. This material realized partly in frame of NAS of Ukraine and PAS join project 2015–17 “Adaptive strategy of mutual survival of organisms in extreme environmental conditions” and Russian Foundation for Basic Reasearch, project 15-04-06118.
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Abakumov, E.V., Parnikoza, I.Y., Vlasov, D.Y., Lupachev, A.V. (2016). Biogenic–Abiogenic Interaction in Antarctic Ornithogenic Soils. In: Frank-Kamenetskaya, O., Panova, E., Vlasov, D. (eds) Biogenic—Abiogenic Interactions in Natural and Anthropogenic Systems. Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24987-2_19
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