The effect of temperature fields on soil and plant cover formation in arid ecosystems of the Uvs Nuur basin
Abstract
Introduction of remote and automated methods into the practice of soil and ecological studies urges for development of the methodological basis for combined analyses of surface and satellite data. The aim of the study was to explore the possibility to identify and typologise the structural and functional borders of soil cover using temperature fields, obtained by combined analysis of the temperature time series obtained by field and remote temperature monitoring. The functional relationships that are expressed within geosystems as the flux of energy and matter are reflected in soil temperature regimes, hydrophysical soil properties and plant cover biological productivity, which were studied in the arid ecosystems of the Uvs Nuur depression in Tuva, Russia. The quantitative characteristic of the temperature fields of the psammophytic soils were obtained, and the effect of hydrothermal conditions and soil hydrophysical properties on above- and belowground phytomass stocks of the sand massif Zuger-Els revealed and discussed.
- Publication:
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IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
- Pub Date:
- July 2021
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1755-1315/817/1/012051
- Bibcode:
- 2021E&ES..817a2051Y