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The paper addresses progress in a modern avenue of science—geochemical ecology as a basis for geochemical normalizing—and analyzes the role of geochemical ecology in the system of ecological subdisciplines and its major concepts (biogeochemical food chains an parameters, biological migration of chemical elements, reactions of living organisms, including homoeostasis, biorhythms, threshold concentrations of chemical elements, etc.). The paper reports newly obtained data on the contribution of geochemical ecology to solving problems of biogeochemical normalizing and zoning and the prophylaxis of biogeochemical endemias and microelementoses, with emphasis placed on the pressing character of problems of geochemical ecology, first and foremost, in the aspect of the anthropogenic evolution of biospheric taxons.
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Ermakov, V.V. Geochemical ecology and biogeochemical criteria for estimating the ecologic state of biospheric taxons. Geochem. Int. 53, 195–212 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702915030064
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