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Influence of Technic Surfaces on the Selected Properties of Ekranic Technosols

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Urbanization: Challenge and Opportunity for Soil Functions and Ecosystem Services (SUITMA 2017)

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Soil sealing is the most common type of soil degradation in the urban areas. Soil under the different pavement and road covers shows many important disturbances in the exchange of matter and energy between the biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere, what is leading to further disorders. Many important differences between the Ekranic Technosols behaviour are connected with the tightness of technic surface. As usual a diversification between soil properties under the complete (e.g. asphalt roads) and non-complete sealing (pavement bricks) is observed. The paper presents the physico-chemical properties of Ekranic Technosols overhung under bitumen surface, concrete slabs and concrete paving stones. The effect of top layers compaction is visible in all cases, especially in the bulk density, total porosity and capillary water capacity. The pH of the soils was different belonging on soil material and land preparation technique. The top layers of the tested soils can be characterized by the low content of organic carbon. The technogenic layers located directly under the sealed surface showed a lower content of some heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn) than the layers below. However, in some cases the opposite situation can be seen. There were no significant differences in the content of trace elements under different technic surfaces.

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    Jakub Kostecki & Andrzej Greinert

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  1. RUDN University, Moscow, c.Moscow, Russia

    Viacheslav Vasenev

  2. RUDN University, Moscow, c.Moscow, Russia

    Elvira Dovletyarova

  3. City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, USA

    Zhongqi Cheng

  4. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, c.Moscow, Russia

    Tatiana V. Prokof’eva

  5. Université de Lorraine , Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

    Jean Louis Morel

  6. Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, c.Moscow, Russia

    Nadezhda D. Ananyeva

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Kostecki, J., Greinert, A. (2019). Influence of Technic Surfaces on the Selected Properties of Ekranic Technosols. In: Vasenev, V., Dovletyarova, E., Cheng, Z., Prokof’eva, T., Morel, J., Ananyeva, N. (eds) Urbanization: Challenge and Opportunity for Soil Functions and Ecosystem Services. SUITMA 2017. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89602-1_4

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