Morphological and physical properties in diagnostics of urban soils: case study from Moscow, Russia

Прокофьева, Т.В.; Умарова, А. Б.; Bykova, G. S.; Сусленкова, М. М.; Ezhelev, Z. S.; Кокорева, А. А.; Gasina, A. I.; Мартыненко, И.А.

doi:10.37501/soilsa/131598

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“…The soil penetration resistance is an informative indicator for monitoring soil compaction (Benevenute et al, 2020). The soil compaction increases the resistance of the soil to plant root growth (Unger, Kaspar, 1994;Correa et al, 2019) impedes the movement of soil animals (Lamandé et al, 2003;Plum, 2005) reduces porosity, which slows water transfer urban soils (Prokof ' eva et al, 2021) and is a reliable indicator of recreational load (Yorkina et al, 2020;Budakova et al, 2021). The natural soils receive much less attention in this respect (Yakovenko, Zhukov, 2021).…”

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Influence of Plants on the Spatial Variability of Soil Penetration Resistance

Кунах

Zhukova

Yakovenko

et al. 2022

Ekológia (Bratislava)

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Soil penetration resistance is an informative indicator to monitor soil compaction, which affects a range of ecological processes in floodplain ecosystems. The aim of the investigation was to reveal the influence of vegetation cover on the spatial variability of penetration resistance of floodplain soils. The study was carried out in the elm oak forest in the floodplain of the Dnipro River (Dniprovsko-Orilsky Nature Reserve, Ukraine). The study of the soil profile morphology was performed in accordance with the guidelines of the field description of soils FAO. The soil penetration resistance was measured in the field using the Eijkelkamp manual penetrometer to a depth of 100 cm at 5-cm intervals within the polygon consisted of 105 sampling points. Vegetation descriptions were made in a 3×3-meter surrounding from each sampling point. The soil penetration resistance was found to regularly increase with increasing depth. The changes in resistance values were insignificant until 25–30 cm depth. After that, there was a sharp increase in penetration resistance up to the depth of 70–75 cm, after which the indicators plateaued. In the three-dimensional aspect, the spatial variation of soil penetration resistance can be fractionated into broad-scale, medium-scale, and fine-scale components. Tree vegetation induces a broad-scale component of soil penetration resistance variations, which embraces the whole soil profile. The herbaceous vegetation induces a medium-scale component, which embraces the upper and middle parts of the soil profile. The fine-scale component is influenced by pedogenic factors.

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Influence of Plants on the Spatial Variability of Soil Penetration Resistance

Кунах

Zhukova

Yakovenko

et al. 2022

Ekológia (Bratislava)

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“…This approach has important implications in the proper management and monitoring of metropolises built on alluvial plains. Floodplains of urban rivers are prone to soil and subsurface modifications indirectly related to riverine flood influences on groundwater table (Bozzano et al ., 2000, 2008), extensive soil compaction associated with structural degradation and loss of porosity, and pedogenic modification associated with soil sealing and contamination from anthropogenic sources (Jim, 1998; Adderley et al ., 2010; Nirei et al ., 2014; Prokof’eva et al ., 2001, 2020, 2021). Thus, integrating geotechnical and meso and micromorphological observation is important to properly evaluate the soil geomechanical properties and adequately assess geological influences on environmental and engineering hazards.…”

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“…Our case study offers the opportunity to anchor continuous microscopic observations with geotechnical parameters obtained from a penetration well acquired during a geotechnical survey in the city of Rome. Several studies demonstrated, in fact, that interpretation of micromorphological features of soil can be used to support the calibration of qualitative and semi‐quantitative compositional and textural data with physical parameters (Aslan & Autin, 1996; Schleuß et al ., 1998; Vissac, 2005; Styllas, 2014; Stoops et al ., 2018; Prokof’eva et al ., 2020, 2021). This approach has important implications in the proper management and monitoring of metropolises built on alluvial plains.…”

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Compositional, micromorphological and geotechnical characterization of Holocene Tiber floodplain deposits (Rome, Italy) and sequence stratigraphic implications

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This study reports a high-resolution micromorphological characterization of floodplain deposits to investigate the relationships among compositional, textural and geotechnical data, and integrate soil micromorphology with sequence stratigraphy. Compositional and textural characterization of facies associations and soil features are calibrated against geotechnical parameters. The latter, obtained from cone penetration and pocket penetrometer tests from a borehole advanced 60 m into the Tiber channel belt and floodplain, show that depositional features and post-depositional modifications are intrinsically associated with cone penetration test parameters: cone resistance; sleeve friction; and friction ratio. Petrographic and micromorphological features document pedogenetic modifications across stratigraphic markers evidenced by faunal and plant activity, accumulation of peat, and typified by precipitation of heavy metals, iron oxides and secondary carbonates. All of these features developed in correspondence with alluvial flooding surfaces that are correlated with non-marine and marine flooding surfaces recognized in the transgressive and highstand coastal and lagoonal deposits of the Tiber Depositional Sequence. These observations may serve as a model to reconstruct the sequence-stratigraphic evolution of ancient relict soils. Nevertheless, additional criteria (for example, their stratigraphic position and correlative surfaces) are necessary to adequately interpret the genesis of such low-rank stratigraphic surfaces. This work demonstrates that a combination between sedimentological and stratigraphic observations and soil micromorphology can be critical to supplement field observations and determine the relative effect of pedogenic and depositional processes on the organization, composition and texture, and geotechnical properties of floodplain in urban areas.

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“…The soil penetration resistance along with other morphological and physical properties is used to diagnose urban soils [4,27] and is a reliable indicator of recreational load [4,25]. The soil compaction modifies the soil moisture regime and can inhibit root growth if certain boundary levels are exceeded, resulting in the plant not being able to obtain water or nutrients at depth [28,29].…”

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Effect of recreation on the spatial variation of soil physical properties

Telyuk

Malenko

Pozdniy

2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Recreation affects various components of ecosystems. A significant transformation occurs in the soil cover in urban parks. The physical properties of soil are sensitive indicators of the level of anthropogenic transformation, and also allow to assess the state of soil as a habitat for plants and soil animals. The question of quantitative patterns of soil properties variability under the influence of recreation is not solved. There is also little information on the spatial aspect of the variability of soil physical properties in urban ecosystems. The aim of our study is to test the hypothesis that the recreational loads cause the formation of spatial patterns of soil properties, which by their extent greatly exceed the zone of direct influence. The spontaneous walkways within an urban park were investigated as an example of recreational loading. The physical soil properties were measured on a regular grid. The distance to the walkway was treated as a proxy variable that indicates recreational load. The application of multivariate statistical methods allowed to reveal the components of the variation of soil properties of different nature. The effect of recreational load is superimposed on the natural variability of properties. The peculiarity of the influence of recreation consists in sharp increase of soil penetration resistance in the upper soil layers and decrease of this index in the lower layers. The recreational load affects the physical properties of the soil. The soil compaction is the main direction of transformation. This effect gradually attenuates with distance from the source of exposure while occupying a significant portion of the space. The variation of soil properties affects the redistribution of soil moisture and soil air, which significantly affects the living conditions of soil biota.

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Morphological and physical properties in diagnostics of urban soils: case study from Moscow, Russia

Cited by 9 publications

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Influence of Plants on the Spatial Variability of Soil Penetration Resistance

Influence of Plants on the Spatial Variability of Soil Penetration Resistance

Compositional, micromorphological and geotechnical characterization of Holocene Tiber floodplain deposits (Rome, Italy) and sequence stratigraphic implications

Effect of recreation on the spatial variation of soil physical properties

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