On the development of soil-genetic zoning

Abstract

The principles of typological soil-genetic zoning based on the substantive-genetic classification of Russian soils (2004) and realized for the State Soil Map of Russia on a scale of 1 : 1 M are considered. Three categories of characteristics are applied to the system of zoning units: taxonomic, process-based, and landscape- indicative characteristics. The relationship between them changes in dependence on the taxonomic level of the zoning unit; at the lower level, the spatial (landscape-indicative) criterion plays the major role. This criterion is also important in the delimitation of soil groups (soil communities) serving as the central taxonomic unit of the zoning. At this level, all the three groups of characteristics are equally important. The definitions of the taxonomic units of the soil-genetic zoning are given, and their characteristic features are described. An algorithm of the zoning procedure is illustrated by the example of the maps developed for the Privolzhskii federal okrug. It is suggested that the soil-genetic zoning can be used as one of the ways to update the State Soil Map.

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Original Russian Text © T.V. Korolyuk, I.I. Lebedeva, M.I. Gerasimova, S.V. Ovechkin, I.Yu. Savin, 2016, published in Pochvovedenie, 2016, No. 3, pp. 299–311.

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Korolyuk, T.V., Lebedeva, I.I., Gerasimova, M.I. et al. On the development of soil-genetic zoning. Eurasian Soil Sc. 49, 272–284 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229316030066

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Keywords

  • State Soil Map
  • soil classification
  • units of soil zoning
  • elementary pedogenetic processes