Publications by authors named "I V Korkina"
A bizarre layer cake: Why soil animals recolonizing polluted areas shape atypical humus forms.
Sci Total Environ
December 2023
Article Synopsis
- The study examines how soil recovery processes in polluted areas yield non-typical humus forms, particularly focusing on the toxic effects of deeper organic layers in southern taiga forests.
- Researchers measured various soil parameters, including metal concentrations and pH, to assess the impact of zoogenic activity on soil health, discovering that metal toxicity increases with depth in forest litter.
- Findings indicate that healthier, more active organic layers (high zoogenicity) have lower metal concentrations and acidity, highlighting the potential for these layers to aid in soil recovery from industrial pollution.
People sometimes misinterpret the sentences that they read. One possible reason suggested in the literature is a race between slow bottom-up algorithmic processing and "fast and frugal" top-down heuristic processing that serves to support fast-paced communication but sometimes results in incorrect representations. Heuristic processing can be both semantic, relying on world knowledge and semantic relations between words, and structural, relying on structural economy.
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