Abstract
The Don River Delta acts as a protective environmental barrier to the washout of pollutants from adjacent drainage areas. The priority pollutant is mercury, which comes as an industrial, agricultural and domestic wastewater`s part. The mercury concentrations levels in soils were determined by expeditionary and laboratory studies: the indicators ranged from 0,025 to 0,082 μg/g d.m. in the sandy-psammophyte meadow (section №1), in the sandy steppe (section №2) – from 0,012 to 0,022 μg/g d.m., in the true meadow (section №3) – from 0,027 to 0,4 μg/g d.m. and on the landscape with near-water vegetation (section №4) – from 0,035 to 0,565 μg/g d.m. The mercury accumulation in soils according to concentration coefficients is noted in the series «the Near-water landscape(13,5) > the True meadow landscape(5,9) > the Sandy-psammophyte meadow landscape(2,5) > the Sandy steppe landscape(1)». It was found that the soil moisture increased from the section №1 to the section №4 (on average from 18,06 to 35,4%), and the highest total biomass was recorded on the sandy-psammophyte landscape (46,55 t/ha) and the landscape with near-water vegetation (41,85 t/ha).
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