Abstract
It is shown that the soil diversity-biodiversity system in terrestrial ecosystems operates in spatiotemporal unity, which manifests itself at different hierarchical levels of their structural-functional organization: successional-evolutionary, zonal geographic, landscape, biogeocenotic, soil-type, horizon-layer, geochemical, and the levels of elementary soil processes and soil fertility. Arguments confirming the functional relationship between organisms and soils are considered. Effective biodiversity conservation is possible on the basis of an ecosystems approach involving simultaneous conservation of soil diversity.
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Original Russian Text © F.Kh. Khaziev, 2011, published in Ekologiya, 2011, No. 3, pp. 183–189.
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Khaziev, F.K. Soil and biodiversity. Russ J Ecol 42, 199–204 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413611030088
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