Plant and soil ecological consultancy
Examples of our services:
Conservation management of species-rich meadows
Restoring species-rich grasslands
In
association with Dr. Sergey Goryachkin (Institute of
Geography, Moscow) and the Pinega State Reserve
(Archangel area) we
are
studying
soils on gypsum rocks in the northern taiga.
Our previous research revealed some distinctive features and properties of Sulpho-rendzinas (read more...)
In June 2010 we continued our long-term experimental study of soil development on freshly exposed gypsum surfaces. The mass and size of gypsum blocks, features of gypsum disintegration and dissolution, vegetation cover composition and the development of soil organic horizon have been recorded over a period of 13 years.
Our previous research revealed some distinctive features and properties of Sulpho-rendzinas (read more...)
In June 2010 we continued our long-term experimental study of soil development on freshly exposed gypsum surfaces. The mass and size of gypsum blocks, features of gypsum disintegration and dissolution, vegetation cover composition and the development of soil organic horizon have been recorded over a period of 13 years.
 Collecting a vegetated gypsum block from the experimental area |
 Weighing the block |
 Describing the vegetation growing over gypsum; |
 organic & gypsum horizons of young sulphorendzina; |
 gypsum powder formed below the organic horizon |
 Lady's-slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus) in the gypsum karst area |
 Gypsum outcrops |