Agrolandscape science and geochemistry of landscapes. A textbook for universities

The manual discusses the theoretical and practical issues of agroslandshaftsatia and the geochemistry of landscapes. The basic models of the organization of the geographical shell, natural components and elements of natural geosystems of different types, factors of their differentiation and integration, structural organization, and the stability of landscapes are considered. The functional-dynamic properties of landscapes are considered, since the processes of their functioning, dynamic and evolutionary changes, energy transformation, and geophysical processes are important for the development of landscapes. Studying the natural-territorial complexes consisting of components, it is necessary to know the essence of the interaction and the relationship between them, which consists in the exchange of matter and energy and the continuous transformation of their forms when moving from one natural bodies to others. Recently, areas related to the study of anthropogenic transformation, the patterns of the organization and dynamics of different types of natural-anthropogenic, including cultural landscapes have been increasingly developing. In this regard, much attention is paid to the anthropogenesis of the landscape shell and agroslandshafts. Part of the training manual is devoted to the geochemistry of landscapes, which studies the patterns of migration of chemical elements in the geographical shell of the Earth. The geochemical landscapes, their classifications, as well as the features of elementary (facies) and local landscapes are considered here.
The training manual gives the principles and techniques for using the method of relief plasticism in relation to the study of landscapes and agroslandscapes. Having studied them, bachelors and masters will be able to develop visual, accurate and objective landscape-geochemical maps that can present the typology of elementary geochemical landscapes.
The publication is intended for bachelors and masters of students in the direction of "agronomy", as well as for teachers, scientific employees, graduate students, undergraduates of agricultural universities and research institutions, as well as employees of the agro-industrial complex. It can be used in relevant design enterprises and environmental organizations