ECOLOGICAL PROTECTION OF RECLAIMED SOILS AND AGRO-LANDSCAPES

On the basis of Russian and foreign research and our own data, we prop ose recognition of three interrelated groups of conservation measures on reclaimed lands: landscape, engineering-reclamation, and soil measu res. The conservation measures in each group are examined. It is shown that the measures in the soil group are effective if the aftereffect of each actual improvement method is studied for the particular soil-c limatic conditions. Ecological protection of soils is considered from two points of view: the landscape as an environment for soil formation and the soil as an environment for the biota and agricultural crops.