Heavy metal content in the forest-steppe zone of the Southern Urals

Soil as the basis of the ecotope largely determines the macro-and microelement composition of the plants growing on it. The predominant soils in the steppe zone of the Southern Urals are chernozems, among which leached, ordinary and southern subtypes are widespread. Migration of elements in the “soil - plant” system is determined by the type of soil, properties, nature of parent rocks, as well as the specificity of the plant species and other factors. Studying the influence of geochemical features of soils on the ecological state and purity of raw materials of medicinal plants is an urgent problem. Local monitoring was carried out to study the content of chemical elements (zinc, copper, cobalt, nickel, lead, cadmium, iron) in the soils of the arable layer of the fields of OOO “Zaozerny” in the forest-steppe zone of the Southern Urals.