Guidebook for field excursion of the 9th International Congress on Soils Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Minning and Military Areas "Urbanization: a challenge and opportunity for soil functions and ecosystem services" (21-30 May, 2017, Moscow)книга
Аннотация:The Guidebook presents the morphological and some chemical, physical and biological characteristics of urban, industrial, agro-transformed and natural soils of Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Leningrad region, and the Central Chernozemic area (the Kursk and Voronezh regions). The Guidebook contains the general summary of the natural, cultural and historical sites visited during field tours such as Lomonosov Moscow State University campus with the Meteorological Observatory, botanical garden and the Earth Science Museum, Khamovniky Leo Tolstoy’s Museum-Estate, the Summer and Mikhailovsky Gardens of St.Petersburg, V.V. Dokuchaev’s Soil Museum, Peterhof Residence, the Central-Chernozemic Biosphere Reservation, the Kursk Biosphere Station of the Institute of Geography, Mikhailovskiy deposit of Kursk Magnetic Anomaly, monastery Korennaya (Kursk Root) Hermitage, the biological educational center “Venevitinovo”and botanical garden of Voronezh State University. General information about Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kursk, Voronezh, where tours will take place. The book is of interest to soil scientists, geographers, geologists and ecologists.