What is the significance of soil for life on earth?
The value of soil in nature can be divided depending on its functions, the main of which are as follows:
• Concentration of energy reserves due to the provision of vital processes of plants and their implementation of photosynthesis (and hence the formation of many minerals).
• Creation of interaction between small and large cycles of substances – biological and geological.
• Regulation of the main processes in the biosphere – regulation of the productivity of living organisms and their density on the planet’s surface.
• Participation in the interconnected process of adjusting atmospheric and hydrospheric compositions.
• Ensuring normal vital processes of terrestrial organisms.
• Environmental role – participation in the functionality of the ecosystem and as an integral part of the biogeocenosis.
• An important role in the complex mechanisms of functioning and regulation of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere and ethnosphere.
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