Abstract

I would like to support the stand taken by M. I. Budyko in his appeal for expansion of studies of problems of global ecology. The need to organize such investigations is recognized by all. And it is really not all that important whether we call this new science "global ecology" or "biogeocenology." But it must in any case be an alloy of the biological, physical, chemical, and mathematical sciences. In all likelihood, the leading role may at various times and in the study of different problems be played by physicists, mathematicians, biologists, or chemists.