Av. Karnaukhov et Vn. Karnaukhov, The role of biodiversity in the conservation of the Earth climate and human civilization. The problems of geobiophysics, BIOFIZIKA, 43(6), 1998, pp. 1106-1121
Factors affecting the concentration of CO2 in atmosphere were analyzed, and
the conditions providing the Earth termal balance stability were considere
d. It was shown that the antropogenic decrease of biodiversity in climate-f
orming biosystems, such as swamps and tropical seas, may lead to the greenh
ouse disaster, resulting in the raise of the temperature on the Earth's sur
face up to 300 degrees C and elimination of Life an Earth. By the example o
f the ecologycal disaster caused by the introduction of the European mollus
c Dreissena into fresh waters of the North America, which was predicted by
us, it; was shown that the main reason! for the decrease in biodiversity, w
hich can accelerate the greenhouse disaster, is the violation of one of the
Darvin principles of species formation, the principle of geographical isol
ation of species. It is shown in terms of a new model of periodical glaciat
ion of the Northern Hemisphere that the elevation of Earth surface temperat
ure caused by an increase in CO2 concentration in the atmosphere can substa
ntially accelerate the onset of a new glacation period in the Northern Hemi
sphere, which may decrease the greenhouse disaster rate. The necessity of t
he formation of a new interdisciplinar scientific branch, geobiophysics, is
consdidered.