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International Scientific Seminar

Organizer: Department of Landscape Design and Sustainable Ecosystems, Smart Urban Nature research center, Agrarian and Technological Institute of RUDN University

Area: Science, Education, International cooperation

Subarea: Ecology and nature management

Format: Seminar

Type: International

Title: «Microbial properties and ecological functions of mountain soil»

Date: November 13, 2024 

Location: Microsoft Teams platform

Contact person:  Babich Gleb Olegovich, babich-go@pfur.ru

The links to the Seminar: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NDBlZWFkM2ItYWVhMC00NjAxLTgwMGEtMzQzYmE4ODhmNzlj%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%222ae95c20-c675-4c48-88d3-f276b762bf52%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%227c0dd40f-506b-4145-9d05-c29980e024d0%22%7d 

About the event:

On November 13, 2024 the Research center «Smart technologies for sustainable development of the urban environment in the global change» Agrarian and Technological Institute RUDN University organizes an international scientific seminar «Microbial properties and ecological functions of mountain soil». The event will be held on the Microsoft Teams platform and off-line in Agrarian and Technological Institute RUDN. The working language is Russian.

The seminar will discuss the consequences of global warming on soil processes related to C, N, P cycling in mountain ecosystems. As a result of climate warming, there is a shift from the mountain forest belt to subalpine meadows, which affects the structure of their plant community and soil processes. Soil microorganisms play a key role in these processes, participating in the decomposition of organic matter and the cycling of biophilic elements. The seminar will consider possible scenarios for changes in the ecological C:N:P stoichiometry in the plant biomass, in the soil pool, in the microbial biomass, and their relationship with the functioning of the soil microbial community under tree line shift for reserved and grazed mountain slopes.

Event program:

17.30 – 18.30

«C:N:P stoichiometry and microbial activity of soils at the tree line shift to subalpine grasslands of reserved and grazed mountain slopes in the Northwest Caucasus»

Kristina Ivashenko, ph.D,  head Laboratory of Carbon Monitoring of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Federal Research Center “Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences” 

18.30– 19.30

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International Scientific Seminar

Organizer: Department of Landscape Design and Sustainable Ecosystems, Smart Urban Nature research center, Agrarian and Technological Institute of RUDN University

Area: Science, Education, International cooperation

Subarea: Ecology and nature management

Format: Seminar

Type: International

Title: «Ecosystem services of urban lawns»

Date: October 30, 2024

Location: Yandex Telemost

Contact person: Babich Gleb Olegovich, babich-go@pfur.ru

The links to the Seminar: https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/70542668008221  

About the event:

On October 30, 2024 the Research center «Smart technologies for sustainable development of the urban environment in the global change» Agrarian and Technological Institute RUDN University organizes an international scientific seminar «Ecosystem services of urban GI in arid and semi-arid regions». The event will be held on the Yandex Telemost platform and off-line in Agrarian and Technological Institute RUDN. The working language is Russian.

In urban environments, anthropogenic impact significantly influences the components of urban ecosystems, particularly the soil cover. This seminar is aimed at presenting information on the evolution pathways of urban soils under the influence of urbopedogenesis in the southern European part of Russia.

The presentations will cover a wide range of topics, including the morphological transformation processes of both natural and anthropogenically altered soils, as well as the accumulation of organic and inorganic carbon forms within the soil profile. Issues related to the influence of plant formations on the changes in the morphological and chemical properties of the region’s zonal soils— Calcic Chernozems —will also be addressed.

Additionally, the seminar will present information on the specifics of pollutant migration in the “soil-plant” system under the influence of urbopedogenesis, highlighting the importance of urban green infrastructure in mitigating the negative effects of urban ecosystem degradation.

Event program:

17.30 – 18.00

«Soils of the Rostov Agglomeration. Transformation Pathways and Functional Specificities»

Sergey Nikolaevich Gorbov, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor at the Department of Botany, Academy of Biology and Biotechnology, Southern Federal University.

18.00 – 18.30

«Accumulation Characteristics and Profile Distribution of Carbon in the Soils of the Rostov Agglomeration»

Pavel Nikolaevich Skripnikov, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Junior Researcher at the Academy of Biology and Biotechnology, Southern Federal University

18.30 – 19.00

«The Influence of Plant Formation Types on the Bulk Composition of Soils in the Rostov Agglomeration»

Nadezhda Vladimirovna Salnik, Junior Researcher at the Academy of Biology and Biotechnology, Southern Federal University

19.00– 19.30

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