Monitoring of the Humus Status of Soils of the Ingulets
Irrigation System

P. S. Lozovitsii

Faculty of Geography, Shevchenko Kiev National University, pr. Glushkova 2, Kiev-85, 03085 Ukraine

Received October 19, 2009

Abstract—The results of long-term studies (1957–2007) of the changes in the morphology of soil profiles and
in the reserves and fractional composition of the humus in the soils of the Ingulets irrigation system are dis-
cussed. After 50 years of irrigation, the boundaries of the genetic horizons shifted downward by 15–30 cm. The
redistribution of the humus took place: its content decreased to a low level in the plow layer of the irrigated and
rainfed soils and significantly increased in the layer of 60–100 cm so that the reserves of humus in the layer of
0–100 cm somewhat increased and corresponded to a moderate level. The distribution of humus in the soil pro-
files was characterized by the gradual lowering down the soil profile. The concentration of nitrogen in the
humus of the irrigated southern chernozems was very low. The degree of humification of the soil organic matter
was high. The humus was of the humate type in the upper horizons and of the fulvate–humate type in the lower
horizons.

DOI: 10.1134/S1064229312010103

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