ABSTRACT
Comparative study of the composition of lipids extracted with n-hexane from soils under shelterbelts of different age and composition of plants and adjoining cultivated fields in agrolandscape has been carried out with the application of (1)Рand (13)С NMR spectroscopy. The lipid content correlates with the organic carbon content in soils and is the highest in the soil under the 200-years old shelterbelt. The data received indicate that hexane-extractable lipids from the soil under the 200-years old shelterbelt have undergone the most significant biochemical and chemical transformations (oxidation, hydrolysis, polymerization) with the accumulation of resistant compounds and destruction of esters of o-phthalic acid as anthropogenic contaminants compared to the lipids from the soil under the 14-years old shelterbelt and soils of adjoining arable fields.
Subject(s)
Environmental Monitoring/methods , Lipids/analysis , Plant Development , Soil Pollutants/analysis , Soil/chemistry , Age Factors , Carbon Isotopes , Environmental Monitoring/statistics & numerical data , Hexanes/chemistry , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy/methods , ProtonsABSTRACT
The changes of the total nitrogen, average yearly concentration of ammonia, nitrate ions, urease activity, total amount of amino acids in humic acids (HA) and the structure of humic acids were monitored in relation to the effect of shelterbelt as biogeochemical barrier located on a mineral and mineral-organic soil. The transformation of different forms of nitrogen in the soil under shelterbelt was strongly connected with the humification process and the molecular structure of humic acids.
