V knige daetsya otsenka ekologicheskogo sostoyaniya gorodskoy sredy na primere Sankt-Peterburga metodami ekobioindikatsii (biogeokhimicheskoy i ekspressnoy indikatsii). Privodyatsya obshchie teoreticheskie polozheniya ekologo-bioindikatsionnykh issledovaniy. Rassmotreny etapy ekobioindikatsionnykh issledovaniy urbogeosistem: ekspressnaya otsenka funktsional'nogo sostoyaniya zelenykh nasazhdeniy goroda, issledovanie biogeokhimicheskoy struktury rasteniy fonovykh i gorodskikh geosistem, opredelenie soderzhaniy khimicheskikh elementov v biosubstratakh, otsenka zagryazneniya pochvennogo pokrova, ekologicheskoe zonirovanie issledovannoy territorii. Obosnovany kriterii integral'noy otsenki intensivnosti transformatsii urbogeosistem i osushchestvleno ekologicheskoe zonirovanie territorii na ikh osnove. Kniga rasschitana na biogeokhimikov, geoekologov, ekologov, a takzhe na chitateley, interesuyushchikhsya ekologiey goroda.