Advances in Understanding Soil Degradation

Part I:  Soil Degradation in the Landscape Context: Concepts and Indicators

1.       Understanding Soils: their Functions, Use and Degradation

2.       Types of Physical Soil Degradation and Implications for their Prevention and Monitoring

3.       Understanding and Monitoring Chemical and Biological Soil Degradation

4.       Classification and causes of soil degradation by irrigation in Russian steppe agrolandscapes.

5.       Desertification in Western Siberia: identification, assessment and driving forces in temporal scale.

6.       Environmental and economic assessment of land degradation in different regions of Russian Plain.

Part II:  Studies in Soil Erosion and Compaction

7.       Measurement and assessment of snowmelt erosion in Western Siberia.

8.       The potential impact of climate change and land use on future soil erosion: an example of the Vranjska Valley (southeast Serbia).

9.       Ground-based dust deposition monitoring in the Aral Sea basin.

10.   Tillage erosion accelerates water erosion in a hilly landscape.

11.   Risks and permissible rates of soil erosion in the agrolandscapes of Crimea

12.   Effect of deer browsing and clear-cutting of trees on soil erosion in a forest ecosystem in Japan.

13.   Soil compaction due to agricultural field traffic: an overview of current knowledge and techniques for compaction quantification and mapping.

14.   Modeling of field traffic intensity and soil compaction risks in agricultural landscapes.

Part III:  Soil Contamination: Methods and Case Studies

15.   Ecotoxicological assessment of brownfield soil by bioassay.

16.   Methodology for the preparation and study of multicomponent certified reference materials of soils contaminated with heavy metals

17.   Bioaugmentation and biostimulation: comparison of long-term effects on ecotoxicity and biological activity of oil-contaminated soil.

18.   Environmental Pollution in the vicinity of Aluminum Smelter in Siberia.

19.   Technogenic fluorine in the Siberian steppe soils due to a metallurgical plant

20.   Contamination of agroecosystem with stable strontium due to liming: an overview and the experimental data.

21.   Concentration, background values and limits of potential toxic elements in soils of Central Serbia.

22.   The impact of weathering and revegetation on pedological characteristics and pollutant dispersion control at coal fly ash disposal sites.

23.   Impact of flood disaster on agricultural land and crop contamination at the confluence of the Bosna river.

24.   Hardly soluble and mobile forms of heavy metals in soils of the Volga Steppes.

25.   Impact of tailing outflow on soil quality around the former Stolice mine (Serbia).

26.   Hazards and Usability of Coal Fly Ash.

Part IV: Soil Carbon and Fertility Monitoring

27.   Crop Yield Limitation by Soil Organic Matter Decline: A Case Study from the US Pacific Northwest.

28.   Changes in the composition and dynamics of soil humus and physical properties in Dark Chestnut soils of Trans-Volga dry steppes under 75- and 35-years of irrigation agriculture.

29.   Fertility degradation in arable Chernozem and Chestnut soils in Volga steppes vs. their virgin analogues

30.   Labile soil carbon as indicator o