... Goals and Tasks . ... Ecological functions of soils in natural and anthropogenic systems; . Biodiversity in different types of soils; . ... It was shown that adaptive and regulatory possibilities of biota allowed the viewing of the soil as a self-regulating subsystem of biogeocenoses, possessing an ability not only to perceive external influences, but at definite extent to transform them into the direction, smoothing the expression of unfavorable factors. ...