Anthropogenic soils
Course: Soil Science, Land Management and Territorial Planning
Structural unit: heohrafichnyi fakultet
            Title
        
        
            Anthropogenic soils
        
    
            Code
        
        
            ВК 3.2.2
        
    
            Module type 
        
        
            Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
        
    
            Educational cycle
        
        
            First
        
    
            Year of study when the component is delivered
        
        
            2024/2025
        
    
            Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
        
        
            5 Semester
        
    
            Number of ECTS credits allocated
        
        
            3
        
    
            Learning outcomes
        
        
            LO 06. Determine the main characteristics, processes, history and composition of the Earth as a planetary system and its geospheres, including pedosphere. 
LO 08. Justify the choice and use field and laboratory methods for the analysis of natural and anthropogenic systems and objects. 
LO 10. Analyze the composition and structure of the pedosphere on different spatial and time. 
LO 13. Be able to bring the results of activities to the professional audience and the general public, make presentations and messages.
        
    
            Form of study
        
        
            Full-time form
        
    
            Prerequisites and co-requisites
        
        
            1.The foundations of classical and genetic soil science, geography, biogeography, genesis and soil morphology.
2. To use soil maps, the results of monitoring research, statistics of agencies of different subordination. 
3. Holding elementary skills of morphogenetic description of soil sediments and profiles of basic types of soil, the method of choosing the location of soil incision, selection and preparation of soil samples for analytical research
        
    
            Course content
        
        
            The discipline covers a wide range of issues related to the soil industry: factors and processes of soil formation with human participation. The spread of anthropogenic-variable soils. Types and intensity of anthropogenic effects. Features of natural and anthropogenic soil formation. Classification in the FAO (Legend to the Soil Map of the World, FAO/UNESCO) and European countries. Classification in the WRB (World Reference Base for Soil Resources, 1998) and the Soil Taxonomy. Classifiers and diagnostic horizons in classification systems. Soils of low -intensity use. Changes in the hydrothermal regime of anthropogenic-variable soils of the steppe when creating polis protection forest strips. Transformation of properties of southern black soil and dark chestnut soils with moderate anthropogenic load. Humidization of soil climate of artificial forest -steppe and steppe forestry.
Agrogenic and agrogenic accumulative soils. General features, elements of systematics and distribution. Soil formation factors on arable land. Humid soils, with balanced moisture, subbid and arid areas. Agrogenic accumulative (constructed) soils. Properties and characteristics of old spread soils. Characteristic features of rice soils, hailuta soils and Plaggen. Changes in soil microclimate under agrophytocenoses. Features of post-agrogenic evolution of different types of soil.
Technogenic soils and soils of urban areas. Soil -like bodies. Technogenic soils in the areas of mineral production. Artificial soil -like formations and soils of reclaimed territories.   
Urban soils and features of their functioning. Properties of urban soils, their systematics and diagnosis. Characteristics of natural soils with surface mechanical transformations. Concepts of definition of the term "urban soils"; General features of urbans. Diagnostic horizon of urban soils - "Urbik" and its characteristics.
        
    
            Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
        
        
            Позняк С.П., Телегуз О. Г. Антропогенні ґрунти /Навчальний посібник/ –
Львів: ЛНУ імені Івана Франка, 2021. – 200 с. 
        
    
            Planned learning activities and teaching methods
        
        
            Lecture, practical session, independent work
        
    
            Assessment methods and criteria
        
        
            Oral examination, modular test papers, assessment of practical works, credit. The recommended minimum for admission is 36 points. For students who scored a total of less than 36 points (recommended minimum), writing essays on missed or insufficiently mastered topics is a mandatory condition for admission to the credit.
The final evaluation in the form of an exam is conducted in a written format. The maximum number of points on the credit is 40, the minimum number of points added to semester points is 24 (60% of the maximum number of points assigned to the credit).
        
    
            Language of instruction
        
        
            Ukrainian
        
    Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
                     Oksana 
                    Mykolaivna
                    Pidkova
                
                
                    Department of Earth Science and Geomorphology 
heohrafichnyi fakultet
            heohrafichnyi fakultet
Departments
The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline
                        Department of Earth Science and Geomorphology
                    
                    
                        heohrafichnyi fakultet