Soil ecology. The doctrine of the environmental functions of soils. Textbook

The textbook sets out the basics of soil ecology - an integral interdisciplinary direction that combines the doctrine of soil formation factors and environmental soil functions, as well as the rational use and protection of soil cover as an indispensable component of the planet. Biogeocenotic and global soil ecofunctions are comprehensively characterized - hydrosphere, atmospheric, lithospheric, general binding, ethnosphere, natural and anthropogenic factors of the formation and dynamics of soils are considered, the state of soil resources and the principles of their use of biological and soil variety are covered. The legal aspects of the protection of soils and biospheres as the conditions for the further development of earthly civilization are discussed.
For soil scientists, ecologists, geographers, geologists - students, graduate students, university teachers, as well as rural, forestry workers, etc