The following study focused on the identification of the current ecological state of soil-landscape complexes and ecological assessment of the plants and animals’ needs for their protection and rational use in the Shirvan Region, Azerbaijan. For the first time, an ecological-energetic assessment of soil-landscape complexes occurred, with a detailed soil bonitet scale compiled, coefficients of their comparative values determined, and maps of soil ecological-energetic assessment assembled with ecological massifs. Agrochemical measures succeeded development for surface and radical improvement of landscape complexes. The environmental assessment maps with scientifically based set of measures aimed at protecting the landscape ecosystems for managing soil fertility and increase their productivity. The main prerequisites for the development of desertification in Azerbaijan with an area of 1.3 million hectares were their high susceptibility to anthropogenic loads (unsystematic grazing, extreme overloads, and plowing of pasture lands) and the natural fragility. Pasture plants also revealed insufficient supply of nutrients: digestible protein, phosphorus, carotene, and the indicated microelements, and the deficiency is around 24%–28%.
Plants, nutrients, landscape complexes, ecological-energetic assessment, microelements, ecological assessment, ecological state
The inaugural conduct of an ecological-energetic assessment of soil-landscape complexes compiled a detailed soil bonitet scale, determined the coefficients of their comparative values, and assembled soil ecological-energetic assessment maps by ecological massifs. For surface and radical improvement of landscape complexes, the study developed agrochemical measures.