Email this article Carbon isotope composition in landscape components and its changes under different ecological conditions
- Authors: Kovda I.V.1, Morgun E.G.2, Gongalskii K.B.3, Balandin S.A.4, Erokhina A.I.2
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Geography
- Moscow State University, Faculty of Soil Science
- Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution
- Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology
- Issue: Vol 43, No 2 (2016)
- Pages: 177-184
- Section: Ecology
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1062-3590/article/view/181533
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359016010088
- ID: 181533
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Abstract
The composition of stable carbon isotopes in plants, plant litter, leaf litter, and soil organic matter was studied experimentally in the western part of the northern foothills of the Caucasus and mountainsides. It was found that the changes in carbon isotope composition depending on the vertical zonation do not exceed 8‰ and depend on the type of C3 plant communities, its presence in biogeocenosis components (living matter, plant litter, soil organic matter), and the degree of moistening of the plot studied.
About the authors
I. V. Kovda
Institute of Geography
Author for correspondence.
Email: ikovda@mail.ru
Russian Federation, per. Staromonentnyi 29, Moscow, 119017
E. G. Morgun
Moscow State University, Faculty of Soil Science
Email: ikovda@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Leninskie Gory 1/12, Moscow, 119991
K. B. Gongalskii
Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution
Email: ikovda@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Leninskii pr. 33, Moscow, 119071
S. A. Balandin
Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology
Email: ikovda@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Leninskie gory 1/12, Moscow, 119992
A. I. Erokhina
Moscow State University, Faculty of Soil Science
Email: ikovda@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Leninskie Gory 1/12, Moscow, 119991
