Soil Ecology Research Group

		Head of Research, Head of Laboratory Andrey A. Yurtaev Scopus AuthorID ResearchGate

About the Research Group

The members of the research group - soil scientists, paleoecologists, geoinformatics - study various problems of soil ecology: from reconstructing the paleoecological conditions of Pleistocene and Holocene to studying modern soil processes and the organization of natural and natural-anthropogenic geosystems.

Main Research Topics

Soil fauna and organic fertilizers as primary factors in the formation of highly fertile Anthrosols under the conditions of unfavorable environmental factors in Western Siberia (A. A. Yurtaev, A. I. Vasiullina)

Ecology of the Arctic soils (A. A. Yurtayev, F. R. Sulkarnaev)

Analysis of the landscape dynamics and the Arctic zone’s soil cover structure through remote sensing (A. A. Yurtaev, M. D. Moskovchenko)

Paleoecology of the pedogenesis process in the periglacial zone of Eurasia (A. A. Yurtaev, A. I. Vasiullina)

The use of quartz grain morphoscopy in paleoenvironmental reconstructions (D. V. Sharapov, E. E. Akhmaeva)

Portable methods in soil analysis - XRF, electrophysics, magnetic susceptibility, colorimetry (A. A. Yurtaev, E. E. Akhmaeva, A. I. Vasiullina)

Ephemeral silty soils of urban landscapes: structure, geochemistry, biota (A. A. Yurtayev, D. T. Ukarkhanova)

Research Group

		Research associate Denis V. Sharapov PhD (University of Pittsburgh, USA) e-mail: d.sharapov@utmn.ru

		Research engineer Anastasiia I. Vasiullina e-mail: a.i.vasiullina@utmn.ru

		Laboratory research assistant Farid R. Sulkarnaev e-mail: f.r.sulkarnaev@utmn.ru

		PhD student at the Institute of Earth Sciences (Tyumen State University) Dzhamilya T. Ukarkhanova e-mail: d.t.ukarkhanova@utmn.ru

		Student at the Institute of Earth Sciences (Tyumen State University) Mikhail D. Moskovchenko e-mail: moskovchenkomd@yandex.ru

		Student at the Institute of Earth Sciences (Tyumen State University) Evelina E. Akhmaeva e-mail: evelina.akhmaeva@gmail.com

Current Projects

Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) grant №19-29-05267_мк (2019-2022): “Spatial and temporal variability of paleopedogenesis in the periglacial zone of the Russian and West Siberian Plains in the late Quaternary”. PI: A. A. Yurtaev, researchers: F. R. Sulkarnaev, A. I. Vasiullina

RFBR grant №19-45-890017_ р_а (2019-2022): “Comprehensive study of the Arctic tundra soil cover on the Gydan Peninsula and the Kara Sea islands (based on the data from Vilkitsky Island)”. PI: A. A. Yurtaev, researchers: F. R. Sulkarnaev, A. I. Vasiullina

RFBR grant №19-05-50062_micromir (2019-2022): “Ecological and geochemical assessment of snow and road dust in the northern regions of West Siberia”. PI: M. D. Moskovchenko, researchers: A. A. Yurtaev, F. R. Sulkarnaev, A. I. Vasiullina, D. T. Ukarkhanova

Completed Projects

RFBR grant №16-45-890312 (2016-2018): “Comprehensive study of the soil cover of Beliy Island (Kara Sea)”. PI: A. A. Yurtaev, researcher: F. R. Sulkarnaev

RFBR grant №18-45-890002_р_а (2018): “Comprehensive assessment of the impact of peat fires on the pasture resources of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug”. PI: M. D. Moskovchenko, researchers: A. A. Yurtaev, F. R. Sulkarnaev

RFBR grant №18-44-890003_р_а (2018): “Levels of polychemical pollution of soils of the urbanized ecosystems of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug”. PI: E. B. Abakumov, researchers: A. A. Yurtaev, F. R. Sulkarnaev

Selected Publications

Moskovchenko D., Yurtaev A., Abakumov E. Geochemical properties of soils of arctic-tundra landscapes of the Beliy Island (the Kara Sea) // Geography and Natural Resources 1, 2020, p.50-60. [in Russian]

Vasiullina A., Moskovchenko D. 2020. Assessment of the impact of associated petroleum gas flaring on taiga landscapes based on an analysis of the vegetation index (NDVI) // Environment protection in oil and gas sector 1, 292, p.14-21. [in Russian]

Yurtaev A., Alexandrovskiy A., Skripkin V., Zazovskaya E., Dolgikh A. Development of surficial deposits on Belyi island (Kara sea) during the last 40,000 years // Radiocarbon, 2018, p 1-17.

Kochurov B., Vinokurova N., Yurtaev A., Glebova O., Puchova A. Introduction in Geography: textbook / Eds. Kochurov B. Moscow: KNORUS, 2018. 186 p. [in Russian]

Wertebach, T.-M., Hölzel, N., Kämpf, I., Yurtaev, A., Tupitsin, S., Kiehl, K., Kamp, J. and Kleinebecker, T. (2017), Soil carbon sequestration due to post-Soviet cropland abandonment: estimates from a large-scale soil organic carbon field inventory. Global Change Biology, 23: 3729–3741. doi:10.1111/gcb.136

Abakumov E., Shamilishviliy G., Yurtaev A. 2017. Soil polychemical contamination on Beliy Island as key background and reference plot for Yamal region // Polish Polar Research, Volume 38, Issue 3, Pages 313–332, ISSN (Online) 2081-8262, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/popore-2017-0020.

Moskovchenko D. V., Kurchatova A. N., Fefilov N. N. and Yurtaev A. A. The Contents of Selected Trace Elements in Soils of Belyi Island, the Kara Sea, Russia // Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (2017) 189:210, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-017-5928-0

Moskovchenko D., Arifiev S., Moskovchenko M., Yurtaev A. Spatial-temporal analysis of wildfires in the forest-tundra of Western Siberia // Siberian Ecological Journal 2, 2020, p.243-245. [in Russian]

International Collaborations

University of Münster, Institute of Landscape Ecology, Münster, Germany
Public University in Mexico City (UNAM), Institute of Geology, Mexico
University of Kiel, Germany

Russian Collaborations

Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Soil Science Institute named after V.V. Dokuchaev, Moscow
Moscow State University, Department of Soil Science, Moscow
St. Petersburg State University, Department of Biology, St. Petersburg
Tyumen Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tyumen