Biopedocenosis as an Index of the Ecological State
of Technogenic Landscape

A. I. Stifeev and A. V. Golovastikova

Ivanov Kursk Agricultural Academy, ul. K. Marksa, Kursk, 305021 Russia

Received September 23, 1998

Abstract—The problems of stability of technogenic landscapes (dumps of overburden rocks) of different ages
of formation in the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly (KMA) are discussed. Abiotic factors (physicochemical charac-
ters of the rocks and time of dumping) were found to be the most important indices of biopedocenosis formation
on dump surfaces. A shortened profile of gray forest soil is formed on loam dumps over 25 years, and flood-
plain soil is formed of Callovian clays. An integrated index of the ecological state of biopedocenoss is suggested
on the basis of studied characters.

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