Table of Contents

1 Global ecodynamics.- 1.1 Trends in civilization development.- 1.2 Global changes: real and possible changes in the future.- 1.3 Anthropogenic processes and their modelling.- 1.4 Ecological safety.- 1.5 Biocomplexity.- 2 Greenhouse effect problems.- 2.1 Interactivity of global climate problems and the carbon cycle.- 2.2 Global climate and the KP.- 2.3 Sources and sinks for carbon dioxide in the biosphere.- 2.4 Anthropogenic sources of carbon.- 2.5 Resources of the biosphere and the greenhouse effect.- 2.6 The greenhouse effect and global carbon cycle.- 2.7 Schemes of the gl6obal carbon cycle.- 3 Land ecosystems and global ecodynamics.- 3.1 Global dynamics of land ecosystems.- 3.2 Forest ecosystems and the greenhouse effect.- 3.3 Primary production and carbon dioxide.- 3.4 The atmosphere-land carbon exchange.- 3.5 Problems of biocoenology in connection with the greenhouse effect.- 3.6 A systems approach in biocoenology.- 3.7 Models in biocenology.- 3.8 Modelling the forest ecosystems.- 3.9 Modelling the energy fluxes in the atmosphere-plant-soil (APS).- 3.10 Modelling the coniferous forest productivity.- 3.11 Succession in the tundra-taiga system.- 3.12 Global model of the carbon cycle.- 4 Global environmental change and the World Ocean.- 4.1 The present-day world ocean.- 4.2 Interactions between the atmosphere and the ocean.- 4.3 The zonal model of the global carbon cycle in the atmosphereocean system.- 4.4 Modelling of the carbon cycle in the World Ocean.- 4.5 Organic carbon and oceanic ecosystems.- 5 High-latitude environment and global ecodynamics.- 5.1 Arctic Basin pollution problems.- 5.2 High-latitude environmental science.- 5.3 Arctic atmosphere composition.- 5.4 Atmospheric ozone.- 5.5 Polar aerosols.- 5.6 Cloudiness dynamics.- 5.7 Modelling the processes of propagation of pollutants at high latitudes.- 6 Biogeochemical cycles of pollutants in the environment.- 6.1 Special features of global biogeochemical cycles.- 6.2 Physical processes of propagation of chemicals in the atmosphere and their modelling.- 6.3 Modelling the atmospheric processes of pollutant propagation.- 6.4 Simulation system to model the physical processes of the transport of pollutants in the atmosphere.- 6.5 Natural-anthropogenic sulphur cycle.- 6.6 Phosphorus cycle.- 6.7 Nitrogen cycle.- 6.8 Biospheric budget of oxygen and ozone.- 6.9 Relationship between the global cycles of water and carbon dioxide.- 6.10 Biogeochemical cycle of methane.- 7 Modelling the global changes of the environment.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 The global model of the NSS.- 7.3 The role of vegetation in climate change.- 7.4 The role of the World Ocean in climate change.- 7.5 Development of the global model.- 7.6 The extraordinary event of the Antarctic Ozone hole in 2002.- 8 Global climate change and geoinformation monitoring.- 8.1 Reality, hypotheses, and fictions.- 8.2 Radiative forcing stipulated by aerosols.- 8.3 Global warming energetics, and geopolitics.- 8.4 Geoinformation monitoring conception.- 8.5 Global simulation experiments.- 9 Problems and functions of the environmental monitoring systems.- 9.1 Systems of environmental monitoring.- 9.2 The search and identification of extreme ecological and technogenic situations.- 9.3 Efficiency of the detection monitoring systems.- 9.4 Making statistical decisions in the systems of environmental monitoring.- 9.5 Managing natural resources.- 9.6 Assessing the environmental parameters.- 9.7 Monitoring hydrophysical and hydrochemical processes.- 9.8 Remote monitoring of the soil-plant formations.- 633.- 681.

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