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  <Entry_Title>Land Resources of Russia -- Maps of Soil Characteristics</Entry_Title>
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    <Dataset_Title>Land Resources of Russia -- Maps of Soil Characteristics</Dataset_Title>
    <Dataset_Release_Date>2002-01-01</Dataset_Release_Date>
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    <First_Name>Vladimir</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Stolbovoi</Last_Name>
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      <Address>International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis</Address>
      <Country>Austria</Country>
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    <First_Name>Boris</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Sheremet</Last_Name>
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      <Address>Dokuchaev Soil Institute</Address>
      <Country>Russia</Country>
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    <Term>Frozen Ground</Term>
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    <Category>EARTH SCIENCE</Category>
    <Topic>Land Surface</Topic>
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  <Keyword>Soil Temperature</Keyword>
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    <Stop_Date>2002-12-31</Stop_Date>
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    <Northernmost_Latitude>77.7</Northernmost_Latitude>
    <Westernmost_Longitude>-169.5</Westernmost_Longitude>
    <Easternmost_Longitude>27.3</Easternmost_Longitude>
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      <Fax>1 303  492-2468 </Fax>
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        <Address>National Snow and Ice Data Center</Address>
        <Address>CIRES, 449 UCB</Address>
        <Address>University of Colorado</Address>
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    <Distribution_Media>FTP</Distribution_Media>
    <Distribution_Format>ESRI Shapefiles</Distribution_Format>
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    <Caption>Browse image of Russian national soil classifications.</Caption>
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Dokuchaev, V.V. 1951. Selected Works, Vols. I and II, Moscow-Leningrad.

FAO-UNESCO. 1998. Soil Map of the World, Revised Legend. World Resources Report No. 60. FAO, Rome, ISBN 92-5-102622-X.

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Fridland V.M. (Ed.) 1988. Soil Map of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic at Scale 1:2.5 Million. All Union Academy of Agricultural Science, Moscow. Government Administration for Geodesy and Cartography (GUGK), 16 sheets.

Fridland V.M. 1982. Main Principles and Elements of Basic Soil Classification and Program for Development. All Union Academy of Agricultural Science, Moscow, 149 pp. [In Russian]

Fridland, V.M. 1972. The structure of Soil Cover. Mysl, Moscow.

Grishina, L.A., 1986. Humus formation and humus status of soils. Publ. Moscow State University, 244 (in Russian). Guidelines for Soil Profile Description. 1990. 3rd Ed. (Revised). FAO, Rome, 70 pp.

Kogut, B. and A. Frid. 1993. Comparative Evaluation of Methods of Determining Humus Concentration in Soils. Pochvovedenie 9:119Ð123. [In Russian]  

Kudeyarov, V.N., F.I. Hakimov, N.F. Deyeva, A.A. IlÕina, T.V. Kuznetzova, and A.V. Timchenko, 1996. Evaluation of respiration of Russian soils. Eurasian Soil Science, 28 (3).

Madsen, H.B. and R.J.A. Jones. 1993. Guidelines for Completing Soil Attribute Tables I and II: Users Guide, Soil Database of Europe. Unpublished manuscript, SESCPe, INRA, France.

Makarov, B.N., 1993. Soil respiration and its role in carbon nutrition of the plants. Agrokhimia, 8, 94Ð104 (in Russian).

Rode, A.A. 1975. Explanatory Dictionary of Soil Science. Nauka, Moscow.

Rode, A.A. 1978. The Problems of the Soil Water Regime. Gydrometizdat, Leningrad, 212 pp. [In Russian]

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Stolboboi V. 2000. Soils of Russia: Correlated with the Revised Legend of the FAO Soil Map of the World and World Reference Base for Soil Resources. Research Report, RR-00-13. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria,112 pp.

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Stolbovoi V., L. Montanarella, V.Medvedev, N. Smeyan, L.Shishov, V.Ungureanu, G.Dobrovolski, M.Jamagne, D.King, V.Rozhkov, I.Savin, 2001. Integration of Data on the Soils of Russia, Byelorus, Moldova and Ukraine into the Soil Geographic Database of the European Community. Eurasian Soil Science, Vol. 34, No. 7, pp.687-703. Stolbovoi V., and B.V. Sheremet. 1995. A New Soil Map of Russia, Compiled in FAO System. Pochvovedenie 2:149Ð158. [In Russian]

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Van Engelen, V.W.P., and T.T. Wen. 1993. Global and National Soil and Terrain Digital Databases (SOTER). Procedures Manual (Revised Version). ISRIC, Wageningen, Netherlands, 115 pp.

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  <Summary>This data set consists of maps of various soil characteristics for all of Russia. The maps are available as ESRI Shapefiles and they are accompanied by databases of soil profiles and related characteristics. The soil classification Shapefile was generalized from the standard 1:2,500,000 soil map of Russia (Fridland, 1988). Several different soil classifications are presented as well as detailed soil characteristics. Additionally, investigators compiled two databases (.dbf files) of detailed soil characteristics from 234 measured soil profiles. These data were extracted from a larger collection entitled Land Resources of Russia. Data and documentation © 2002 copyright International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Russian Academy of Sciences.</Summary>
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