Effect of soil temperature field heterogeneity on soil and vegetation spatial heterogeneity along tundra-steppe catenas in the Mongun-Taiga Mountain

The article discusses the possibility of revealing reverse interrelationship between temperature field heterogeneity and spatial heterogeneity of soil and plant cover of the tundra-steppe catenas in the Mongun-Taiga Mountains. As a result of the studies, the quantitative characteristics, the temperature field inhomogeneities obtained as a result of a joint analysis of the time series of temperature monitoring and satellite data were used for the first time to identify the structural units of the soil cover of the highlands of the Altai-Sayan region. The novelty of the approach is that the cartographic models of temperature fields created on the basis of quantitative temperatures, adequate informati, allowing to establish interchangeable conditions with other characteristics of objects of the natural environment and to approach the solution of isolation problems and the typology of soil-ecological boundaries.