BIODIVERSITY IN RUSSIA

Biological diversity is the totality of all biological species and biotic communities formed and emerging in different habitats (terrestrial, soil, marine, freshwater). This is the basis for maintaining the life-sustaining functions of the biosphere and human existence. National and global problems of biodiversity conservation cannot be realized without fundamental research in this area. Russia with its vast territory, which preserves the main diversity of ecosystems and species in Northern Eurasia, needs to conduct special studies aimed at the inventory and assessment of its biodiversity, the development of its monitoring system, as well as principles and methods of conservingits natural biosystems.