Examples of our services:

Conservation management of species-rich meadows

Soil monitoring

Restoring species-rich grasslands

Heathland restoration

Soil assessment

Restoration of wet grasslands

Monitoring acid grassland

Research on hedgerows

Environmental mitigation

Sustainable weed control

Research on rare soils

Russian Sulpho-rendzinas are globally unique soils due to their pure-gypsum mineralogy and exposure to cryogenic processes within the taiga bioclimatic zone (our study areas shown in yellow on the map below). Other soils on gypsum are formed within the warm humid climate of Germany and Poland; and semi-arid and arid varieties of soils on gypsum occur in South Russia, Italy, Spain, USA, Iran, etc. 

Examples of soils developed on gypsum rocks in different countries:

North: Sulpho-rendzinas, or Gypso-petrozems (Rusian Soil Classification), or
Lithic and Haplic Leptosols gypsiric (WRB) or Lithic Eutrocryepts (ST)
South: "gazha" soils (trad.) or Gypsisols (WRB)

Gips rendzina (German), or gypsum rendzinas

Redziny siarczanowe or Redziny gipsowe (Polish), gypsic rendzinas or Lithic Rendzic Leptosols (WRB)

Sols gypseux rendziniformes (CPCS), Rendzine gypsifere

Calcic and Haplic Gypsisols (WRB) or Gypsic Haploxerepts (ST); Lithic and Eutric Leptosols

Torriorthents (ST)

Developing a logical universal classification and taxonomy for these soils is a problematic issue. However the differences in existing designations generally reflect principal genetic differences between the soils considered.

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