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Composition and Genesis of Polyarenes in Soils of Burnt Areas of Different Ages in the Baikal Nature Reserve

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Data on the contents of eleven polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soils of single-time and repeatedly burnt areas of different ages in taiga landscapes of the Khamar-Daban Ridge (southern Baikal region, Buryatia) are presented. Morphological soil features inherited from the fires are identified: charcoal layer (pyr), ash layer (Cpyr), charred forest litter, (Opyr) and pyrogenic humus horizon (Apyr). The post-fire variability of the soil cover within burnt areas is related to the presence of areas with six degrees of burning of litter material. The content of PAHs in soils decreases with increasing fire intensity, as well as in the case of repeated fires on the already burnt area. Background soils of forests not disturbed by fire have a higher content of PAHs compared to that in soils of 42-year-old burnt area and one-year-old intensely burnt area. Four groups of PAHs differing in their origin have been identified using factor analysis: polyarenes of pyrogenic autochthonous origin formed in situ (naphthalene, tetraphene, pyrene, chrysene, anthracene, naphthalene, to a lesser extent benzo(a)pyrene and benzo(ghi)perylene); polyarenes of pyrogenic allochthonous origin that accumulated in soils due to atmospheric transport of ash material (benzo(a)pyrene and benzo(ghi)perylene); polyarenes of biochemical origin (fluorene and biphenyl); and polyarenes of biochemical and petrogenic origin accumulating in the deep soil horizons (phenanthrene).

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The analysis of the obtained data (soil samples) was supported by the state budget theme “Anthropogenic geochemical transformation of landscape components”; the study of vegetation was supported by the state budget theme “Plant biodiversity of Russia and adjacent countries: scientific approach to processing of collections of the Herbarium of Moscow State University as a basis for the study of regional floras.”

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Table S1 . Soil cover components of the studied hillslope catenas

Table S2 . Soil cover components of the studied terrace areas (repeated pits are given in rows)

Table S3 . Average contents of polyarenes in the studied soils with due account for the natural variability and analytical error. PAH values are given in ng/g air-dry soil. Confidence intervals at P = 0.9 are shown

Fig. S1 . Distribution of the identified factors by depth. The sample included all pyrogenic soils. The punch shows the median, the box shows the 25–75% quartiles, and the whiskers show the minimum and maximum values, excluding outliers,

Fig. S2 . Distribution of factor 1 (left) and factor 2 (right) in the upper layer (0–5 cm) in areas with different duration of the post-fire period.

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Koshovsky, T.S., Gennadiev, A.N. & Gamova, N.S. Composition and Genesis of Polyarenes in Soils of Burnt Areas of Different Ages in the Baikal Nature Reserve. Eurasian Soil Sc. 57, 1138–1150 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229324600556

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