This groundbreaking book presents an innovative predictive concept in geographical ecology that reveals local mechanisms of global environmental changes. Through an empirically established display of background bioclimatic trends using catenary biogeocoenotic systems, the work explores regional structures of localized natural zonality. The landscape-ecological forecast methodology employs ecological niches of studied objects, with spatial coordinates transformed into time coordinates according to the fundamental properties of environmental ergodicity, creating a powerful framework for predicting geo-ecosystem restructuring.

The research offers significant advancements in ecological modeling through its application of discrete mathematics for processing extensive empirical data from field and laboratory landscape studies. By incorporating specific examples and empirical simulation techniques, this work provides environmental scientists with formalized tools for analysis and prediction that can be applied to real-world ecological challenges. The methodology presented transforms geographical ecology into a more precise and quantifiable discipline capable of addressing complex environmental dynamics.

This monograph is primarily intended for specialists in environmental conservation, ecological modeling and forecasting, and ecological planning in forestry and agriculture. Additionally, as it draws from the Russian school of landscape science - an approach not widely familiar to many Western European and American researchers - this book offers valuable theoretical and methodological insights for both landscape scientists and ecologists across various specializations. Researchers seeking innovative approaches to understanding environmental change will find this work particularly valuable for its unique perspective and practical applications.

Erland G. Kolomyts was a scientist at the Institute of Geography of Siberia and the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, from 1960 to 1972; a scientist at the Pacific Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, from 1972 to 1977; the Head of the Laboratory of Geo-ecology at the High Mountain Geophysical Institute, Nalychik, from 1977 to 1986; the Head of the (sub-)faculty of Physical Geography at Nizhny Novgorod Pedagogical University, from 1986 to 1990; and the Head of the Laboratory of Landscape Ecology at the Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Togliatti, in 1990. Since December 2022, he has been working as a leading researcher at the Institute of Fundamental Problems of Biology of the Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His honors and awards include Doctor of Geographical Sciences (1976), Professor (1986), Meritorious Science Worker of the Russian Federation (2003), and the Grigoryev Prize Laureate from the Russian Academy of Sciences (2015), Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England (2016), Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England (2018).