Lisovyy M.
Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology,
Microbiology and Biosafety National University of Life and Environmental Sciences
of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Fedorchuk S.
Candidate of agricultural science, assistant professor of soil science and
agriculture at Zhytomyr Agroecological University, Zhytomyr, Ukraine
Klymenko T.
Candidate of agricultural science, associate professor of the Department of Soil
Science and Agriculture of Zhytomyr Agroecological University, Zhytomyr, Ukraine
Trembitska O.
Candidate of agricultural science, senior lecturer of the Department of Soil
Science and Agriculture of Zhytomyr Agroecological University, Zhytomyr, Ukraine
METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY
AND DETERMINATION OF THE SPECIES CONDITION
OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL
LANDSCAPES OF THE FOREST-STEPPE UKRAINE
Introduction. The urgency of the problem of biodiversity conservation is beyond
doubt. According to leading ecologists, the main reason for the impoverishment of
biodiversity is the man-made destruction of the environment and the intensive
consumption of natural resources. Reduced biodiversity of the planet is considered one
of the main factors of the global ecological crisis [9, 15].
Among ecologists today there is no single point of view regarding the ecological
function of biodiversity. But it is believed that it provides ecological sustainability of
ecosystems - support for the constant cycle of matter, energy and information, which
determines the existence of renewable natural resources of the biosphere. Biodiversity
at each of the trophic levels is a prerequisite for the stable functioning of ecosystems
under changing environmental conditions. Growth of biodiversity is seen as the main
pathway for the evolution of ecosystems.
The real status of the biodiversity of the planet is still unknown, but the scientific
community recognizes that insects account for 53 to 75% of biota species, and their
total biomass exceeds the biomass of all other animals. In agriculture, agrobiodiversity
performs not only ecological, but also economic function. Estimates of the economic
significance of the diversity of insects show that the annual economic effect of their
life only in the United States is about 57 billion USD. The global economic significance
of insect pollinating agricultural crops is 112-200 billion USD annually [10, 14].
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