Gs. Bazykina et In. Olovyannikova, THE MELIORATIVE ROLE OF FOREST SHELTER BELTS AT DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL STAGES IN THE NORTHERN CASPIAN SEMIDESERT, Eurasian soil science, 29(5), 1996, pp. 615-624
Three functional stages of agricultural afforestation systems were dis
tinguished on the basis of long-term, since 1968, surveys. They differ
by the intensity of the meliorative process and the efficiency of sys
tem activity aimed at the increase of productivity of agricultural cro
ps grown in semidesert regions. Eluvial-saline agrozems that are forme
d as a result of reclamation of solonchakous solonetzes are considered
.