Symposium Introduction

However, the stability of the atmosphere has certain limits, and violation of regulatory capacity is fraught with serious consequences. Speaking as an important agent of binding and redistribution on the surface Earth's cosmic energy, living matter, thereby performs the function cosmic significance.

However, at present on Earth is a new force on the power impacts are not inferior to the total effect of living organisms - mankind with its social laws of development and a powerful technique that allows to influence the secular course of biosphere processes. Modern humanity uses not only the vast energy resources of the biosphere, but also nebiosfernye sources energy (eg nuclear), accelerating the geochemical transformation of nature.

Some processes, caused by technical human activity directed contrary to the natural course of the biosphere (dispersal metals, ores, carbon and other nutrients, inhibition of mineralization and humification, the release of preserved carbon and its oxidation, violation of large-scale processes in the atmosphere, affecting climate and etc.).

Vernadsky believed it possible to even speak about the role of autotrophic rights meaning thereby increasing the scope of artificial synthesis of organic substances, often have no counterparts in nature. Modern human activities are largely unexpected damage inflicted environment, which ultimately threatens the further development of the humanity. These changes at this stage are not yet irreversible.

Therefore, one of the goals of modern ecology - is the study of regulatory processes in the biosphere, the establishment of a scientific basis for its rational use. Basic laws of the functioning of the biosphere is already looming, but much remains to be done through joint efforts of ecologists of all countries world.