Vegetation of Abandoned Fields on Soil Types of Kastanozems in Northern Kazakhstan (Kostanay Region)

Ryspekov T. Jandák J. Balkozha M. Winkler J.
2021 Polskie Towarzystwo Inzynierii Ekologicznej (PTIE)

Journal of Ecological Engineering
2021 #22 Issue 10 176 - 184 pp.

This study provides original data on the impact of human activity on vegetation under the specific conditions of the Kastanozem from the Kostanay region (northern Kazakhstan). Radical changes in land use are provoking deposition in vegetation. The question remains whether natural vegetation will return or whether a different type of vegetation will be created under the specific conditions of the Kastanozems soils. The evaluation of vegetation took place in the fields that were abandoned in different time horizons. Height, cover, biomass weight and species composition of vegetation were monitored. The vegetation of abandoned fields is characterized by low species diversity. Succession runs from annual species to a stage where perennial dicotyledonous species with a deep root system dominate. Spontaneous vegetation leaves a sufficient amount of biomass on the soil surface, which assumes that the land will be protected from undesirable phenomena such as erosion and desertification processes.

abandoned fields , Kastanozems , Kazakhstan , succession vegetation

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Department of Soil sciences and agro chemistry, Non-profit Corporation Kazakh National Agrarian University, Abay 8, Almaty, 050010, Kazakhstan
Department of Agrochemistry, Soil Science, Microbiology and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, Brno, 613 00, Czech Republic
Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, Brno, 613 00, Czech Republic

Department of Soil sciences and agro chemistry
Department of Agrochemistry
Department of Plant Biology

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