RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

No. 4, 2004

Forest Soil Science in the 21st Century

L. O. Karpachevskii and V. V. Nikonov

Original Articles

The Role of Biological Cycle in Formation of Soils under Nut-Fruit Forests in the Western Tien-Shan

A. S. Vladychenskii and T. Yu. Ul'yanova

On Some Theoretical Aspects of Studying Forest Litters

L. G. Bogatyrev, V. V. Demin, G. V. Matyshak, and V. A. Sapozhnikova

Reserves of Biological Carbon and Nitrogen in Soils of Russian Forest Fund

0. V. Chestnykh, D. G. Zamolodchikov, and A. I. Utkin

Organic Carbon in Water of Podzols under Green Moss Spruce Forests in the Kola Peninsula

T. T. Gorbacheva and N. V. Lukina

The Influence of Slash on Properties of Soddy-Podzolic Soils

A. Yu. Radyukina

Resistance of Forest Soils to Air Pollution

G. N. Koptsik

The Influence of Edaphic and Anthropogenic Factors on Burrow Network of Small Mammals in Recreation Forests of Moscow Region

A. V. Bykov and A. B. Lysikov

Short Communications

Anisotropy of Soils in a Cedar Parcel of the Ussurian Taiga

E. M. Shevchenko, L. S. Il'ina, and L. O. Karpachevskii

Field Method of Measuring the Nitrogen-Fixing Activity in Alnus incana Nodules

S. M. Razgulin

Obituary

In Memory of Feliks Zinov'evich Glebov (1925-2002)

Lev Konstantinovich Kaibiyainen (1937-2004) Vyacheslav Vasil'evich Nikonov (1944-2004)