Study of developmental homeostasis in natural populations. Health of environment concept: Methodology and practice of estimation

Abstract

Increasing anthropogenic impact on the natural environment determines the urgency and significance of provision of the all-round estimation and monitoring of its consequences. The methodology of the health of environment estimation based on characteristics of the condition of different species of living beings by the developmental homeostasis is proposed as an operational approach for this problem solution. The elaborated methodology approbation during the execution of a number of the projects on the estimation of the environmental quality under different types of the anthropogenic impact allows one to characterize the possibilities of used approaches for estimation of the environment’s auspiciousness for living beings and humans. This also opens up the possibility to estimate the range of possible changes of the developmental homeostasis in real natural conditions.