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One of the most serious environmental threats of modern civilization, namely, soil degradation and, respectively, the loss of soil resources, is discussed in this article. This danger, which is approaching a global scale, has been in the focus of scientists’ and specialists’ attention for a long time. However, in the authors’ opinion, the measures taken on legislative, administrative, and economic protection of soil resources are far from being sufficient.

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  1. Laboratory of Functional Ecology at the RAS Institute for Basic Problems of Biology, Moscow, Russia

    A. S. Kerzhentsev

  2. RAS Institute for Basic Problems of Biology, Moscow, Russia

    Yu. A. Kuz’menchuk

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Original Russian Text © A.S. Kerzhentsev, Yu.A. Kuz’menchuk, 2009, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2009, Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 312–319.

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Kerzhentsev, A.S., Kuz’menchuk, Y.A. We have no other earth. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 79, 167–173 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331609020130

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