SOIL-AGROMELIORATIVE REGIONALIZATION AS AN INFORMATION BASE FOR THE SOIL COVER INVENTORY OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS IN RUSSIA

Abstract

Under consideration is a regionalization version corrected with the aim to renew taxons, to give a new interpretation of farming systems and to specify the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the soil cover in agricultural areas. It is of great interest from the historical viewpoint, permitting to study the stages in the development of the purposeful regionalization. The present data may be useful for elaborating new specialized regionalization using the modern GIS-technologies for forecasting the development of agriculture in the nearest future.

Keywords

• soil-agromeliorative regionalization
• landscape-soil-environmental and climatic characteristics of the soil cover
• soil-agromeliorative regions
• claster analysis