Mapping of Soil-Ecological Conditions of a Medium-Size Industrial City (Birobidzhan City, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, FarEast of Russia as an Example)

Landscape metrics as a tool for analysis of urban pedodiversity

“…Another method quantifies the soil relations with other elements of the city ecosystem. Four ecological groups of soils are used to delimit the soilecological city zones: natural untransformed, natural with disturbed surface, anthropogenic soils, and technogenic surface formations (Kalmanova & Matiushkina, 2018). However, there is still a question as to whether it is possible to develop quali-quantified or quantified methods, which in connection with the traditional approach based on soil functions would increase the applicability of the obtained data not only in pedological studies, but also in urban spatial planning for supporting geospatially based decision-making.…”