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Soil and zoological studies of the arboretum of the Nikitsky Botanical Garden and Cape Martian Reserve (southern coast of Crimea) were carried out. Twenty two taxonomic groups of large invertebrate soil animals, whose number was about 1000 specimens/m2 and biomass about 25 g/m2, were found in the bulk stratozems of the garden and in natural red-colored soils of the reserve. The territory of botanical garden is characterized by a greater biomass and taxonomic diversity of the soil macrofauna than Cape Martian, but the community structure of both territories has similarities. Higher biodiversity and biomass in the garden are explained by increased soil moisture due to a sprinkling and high mosaicism of vegetation in the arboretum. Both territories have a high internal heterogeneity of the soil population, which is due to a variability of the soil properties, which is determined by differences in the bulk soils of the Nikitsky garden and the linear nature of erosion of the soils of Cape Martian. Along with a diversity of vegetation, these factors affect the heterogeneity of macrofauna distribution and provide a high biological β-diversity of the territory.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors are grateful to the employees, graduate students, and students of the Department of Soil Geography of the Faculty of Soil Science of Moscow State University A.S. Sorokin, Yu.A. Golovleva, A.S. Medvedeva, as well as to undergraduate of the Department of Landscape Geochemistry and Soil Geography of the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University V.I. Gavrilova, for assistance in the selection and primary processing of the soil–zoological samples.
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The study of the soil cover heterogeneity and soil properties was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 17-17-01293 “Multilevel Regional Soil–Geographical Models as the Basis for Sustainable Management of Soil Resources.”
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Rahleeva, A.A., Agadzhanova, N.V., Ilyichev, I.A. et al. Communities of Soil Invertebrates in Protected Areas of the Southern Coast of Crimea. Moscow Univ. Soil Sci. Bull. 75, 46–54 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0147687420010068
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