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The carbon content in the microbial biomass and the microbial production of CO2 (the biological component of soil respiration) were determined in the upper layer (0–10 cm) of soils in the impact zone of the OJSC Voskresensk Mineral Fertilizers, one of the largest factories manufacturing mineral fertilizers in Russia. Statistical characteristics and schematic distribution of the biological parameters in the soil cover of the impact zone were analyzed. The degree of disturbance of microbial communities in the studied objects varied from weak to medium. The maximum value (0.44) was observed on the sampling plot 4 km away from the factory and 0.5 km away from the place of waste (phosphogypsum) storage. Significantly lower carbon content in the microbial biomass and its specific respiration were recorded in the agrosoddy-podzolic soil as compared with the alluvial soil sampled at the same distance from the plant. The effects of potential soil pollutants (fluorine, sulfur, cadmium, and stable strontium) on the characteristics of soil microbial communities were described with reliable regression equations.
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Original Russian Text © A.D. Zhukova, D.M. Khomyakov, 2015, published in Pochvovedenie, 2015, No. 8, pp. 984–992.
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Zhukova, A.D., Khomyakov, D.M. Parameters of microbial respiration in soils of the impact zone of a mineral fertilizer factory. Eurasian Soil Sc. 48, 862–870 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229315080128
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