Eurasian Soil Science 

About: Eurasian Soil Science is an academic journal published by MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Soil water & Humus. It has an ISSN identifier of 1064-2293. Over the lifetime, 3745 publications have been published receiving 27838 citations. The journal is also known as: Počvovedenie.

Interpretation of micromorphological features of soils and regoliths

Abstract: * There are a number of fundamental works on soilmorphology well known to each specialist. They arerecommended for each novice micromorphologist forstudying the conceptual, methodological, and terminological foundations and basic concepts of thisbranch of science and for using them as necessary reference books. The monographs by Kubiёna [15, 16],Brewer [7], FitzPatrick [10, 11], Bullock with coauthors [8], and Stoops [17] are the main referencebooks of a soil micromorphologist. Russianspeakingscientists also use the monographs by Parfenova andYarilova [5] and the collaborative monograph

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soils: Sources, behavior, and indication significance (a review)

Abstract: The current ideas of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soils are reviewed. Their natural and anthropogenic sources are discussed, and the mechanisms of their arrival from other environmental components to soils are considered. The main processes typical for PAHs in soils are defined; the sorption, degradation, and translocation features of polyarenes in the soil profile are shown. Attention is paid to the geographical features of the PAH distribution in soils. The use of data on the PAHs in soils for the indication of different natural and technogenic processes is also discussed.

Problems and prospects concerning the phytoremediation of heavy metal polluted soils: A review

Abstract: The current state, problems, and prospects of phymoremediation of heavy metal polluted soils are analyzed. The main attention is paid to the phytoextraction and phytostabilization as the most widespread and alternative methods of soil phytoremediation. The efficiency of phymoremediation is related to the natural capability of plants for the accumulation and translocation of metals, their tolerance to a high content of metals, the plant biomass, and the amendments applied. The advantages and disadvantages of phytoremediation as compared to other methods of remediation of polluted soils in situ are considered. Examples of successful phytoextraction and phytomining for cleaning up of contaminated soils in Rasteburg (South Africa) and the phytostabilization of technogenic barrens nearby the copper-nickel plants in Sudbury (Ontario, Canada) and in the Kola Subarctic (Russia) are presented.

Soils of Israel

Abstract: Israel, whose area is comparable to half the area of Moscow oblast, has a wide range of soils, from Terra Rossas in the subhumid northern regions to Regosols on the arid southern plains. This diversity is due to both the present-day differentiation of the climate and the landscape structure of the region and due to evidence of the past, mainly of the Neogene and Quaternary environments. The pre-Quaternary history resulted in the prevalence of soils developed on calcareous rocks differing in weathering forms; the Quaternary age is imprinted in soils developed on different rocks of continental genesis, including coastal dunes and lacustrine deposits. This pattern is completed with soils developed on Neogene-Quaternary magmatites. The soil cover of the country was influenced by the eolian accumulation of silty-clay material and experienced periodic climatic changes from more humid to drier ones during the entire Quaternary period and acquired features of a particular spatial unit. At the same time, similar soils occur in adjacent countries: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. During the last 50–70 years, many new agrogenically transformed soils and soil-like formations have appeared in the soil cover of the country.

Inclusion of soils and soil-like bodies of urban territories into the Russian soil classification system

Abstract: The results of the Internet discussion on the classification of urban soils aimed at evaluating their possible inclusion into the modern Russian soil classification system adopted by a wide range of specialists are presented The first step was to address the urban diagnostic horizons as the basis for identifying soil types according to the rules of the Russian soil classification New diagnostic horizons were proposed for urban soils: urbic (UR), filled compost-mineral (RAT), and filled peat (RT) The combination of these horizons with other diagnostic horizons and layers of technogenic materials correspond to different soil types At the subtype level, the diagnostic properties (qualifiers) that may reflect both natural phenomena (gley, alkalinity) and technogenic impacts on the soils (urbistratified; phosphatic; or poorly expressed urban—ur, rat, rt) are used Some corrections were proposed for the system of parent materials in urban environments Urban soils formerly described in another nomenclature—urbanozems, urbiquasizems, and culturozems—are correlated with the taxa in all the trunks of the system The proposals accepted can be used for the next updated version of the new Russian soil classification system