Condition of the Soil Fauna near the Epicenter of an Underground Nuclear Explosion in the Northern Urals |
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Authors: | A A Kolesnikova A A Taskaeva D A Krivolutskii A I Taskaev |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Biology, Komi Research Center, Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kommunisticheskaya 28, Syktyvkar, 167610, Russia;(2) Institute of Parasitology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 33, Moscow, 117071, Russia |
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Abstract: | Radioactive contamination affects soil organisms and causes profound structural rearrangements in soil zoocenoses, which are manifested in the decreased species diversity of invertebrate communities and low relative abundance of large soil invertebrates. However, these communities gradually recover their initial structure. The soil biota near the epicenter of an underground nuclear explosion performed 30 years ago in Perm oblast has been studied to reveal specific structural features of the soil macro- and microfauna. Its structural diversity is considered with regard to such components as species (taxonomic) composition, the structure of dominance, and the ratio of ecological and trophic groups.__________Translated from Ekologiya, No. 3, 2005, pp. 171–179.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Kolesnikova, Taskaeva, Krivolutskii, Taskaev. |
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Keywords: | underground nuclear explosion structural diversity springtails oribatid mites soil macrofauna |
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