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In the populated intermontane basins, current grasslands and their soils have similar properties independently on the windward or leeward slopes. At the same time, buried soils are different showing difference of soil forming factors in the past. We explain the convergence of plant cover and soils by relatively young age of grasslands which were used as croplands up to 1960th.
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Land use history and buried soils are the important explanatory factors for understanding the current conditions of mountain lands.
Raisa Gracheva
Institute of Geography Russian Academy of Sciences
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This page is a summary of: Grasslands of intermontane basins of Central Caucasus: land use legacies and present-day state, Hacquetia, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/hacq-2016-0016.
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