Implementation period: 2024 – 2025
Coordinator: Dr. Hristina Poposka, senior research associate (hristinapoposka@hotmail.com)
Department of Pedology and Agrochemistry
Since 2024, the Institute of Agriculture - Skopje has been implementing the Project Halomorphic soils at
Ovche Pole region, financed from own funds.
Most of the official data on these soils in our country are out of date (made in the period 1960-1970) and they require new research with the application of new modern methods, as well as their constant monitoring in the future.
The class of halomorphic soils (‘slatina’ soilс) includes those soils, in which genesis and evolution, the easily soluble salts, had or have a very significant role.
As a test region was taken Ovche Pole region as one of the most arid regions in the country, with the highest accumulation of salts in Paleogene sediments, river and underground waters and in the soils and on sloping terrains, intensive secondary salinization as a result of anthropogenic activities, as well as the best studied halomorphic soils in the country, which enables comparative studies with previously published results, etc.
In halomorphic soils under natural vegetation, specific plant communities occur that are characteristic only for saline soils, which makes these soils a natural habitat of special importance for biodiversity. The description of the vegetative cover of halomorphic soils in the researched area will represent a solid base for the future protection of halomorphic soils and the specific biodiversity in the ecosystem of which they are an integral part.
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