Ecological Functions of Landscapes
- Authors: Kiryushin V.I.1
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Affiliations:
- Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute
- Issue: Vol 51, No 1 (2018)
- Pages: 14-21
- Section: Genesis and Geography of Soils
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1064-2293/article/view/224361
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S106422931801009X
- ID: 224361
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Abstract
Ecological functions of landscapes are considered a system of processes ensuring the development, preservation, and evolution of ecosystems and the biosphere as a whole. The concept of biogeocenosis can be considered a model that integrates biotic and environmental functions. The most general biogeocenotic functions specify the biodiversity, biotic links, self-organization, and evolution of ecosystems. Close interaction between biocenosis and the biotope (ecotope) is ensured by the continuous exchange of matter, energy, and information. Ecotope determines the biocenosis. The group of ecotopic functions includes atmospheric (gas exchange, heat exchange, hydroatmospheric, climate-forming), lithospheric (geodynamic, geophysical, and geochemical), hydrologic and hydrogeologic functions of landscape and ecotopic functions of soils. Bioecological functions emerge as a result of the biotope and ecotope interaction; these are the bioproductive, destructive, organoaccumulative, biochemical (gas, concentration, redox, biochemical, biopedological), pedogenetic, and energy functions
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About the authors
V. I. Kiryushin
Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute
Author for correspondence.
Email: vkiryushin@rambler.ru
Russian Federation, per. Pyzhevskii 7, Moscow, 119017