Prirodnye ekosistemy Tsentral'nogo Predkavkaz'ya, kak i drugikh regionov mira, v nastoyashchee vremya nakhodyatsya v usloviyakh usilennogo antropogennogo pressa. Poetomu prostranstva, zanyatye antropofitami (gruppa rasteniy, sostoyashchaya iz allokhtonnykh vidov, voshedshikh v mestnuyu floru blagodarya cheloveku i drugim faktoram (kul'turnye, sornye, ruderal'nye i prochie), a takzhe lyubykh avtokhtonnykh vidov, spontanno poselyayushchikhsya na mestoobitaniyakh, sozdannykh ili transformirovannykh chelovekom) i ikh soobshchestvami, budut uvelichivat'sya, ikh rol' v strukture biosfery i vliyanie na biogeokhimicheskie tsikly budet vozrastat'. V monografii rassmatrivaetsya gruppa rasteniy - antropofity, neizbezhnye sputniki cheloveka, istoriya izucheniya, daetsya ikh ekonomicheskaya otsenka v Tsentral'nom Predkavkaz'e. Prednaznachena dlya studentov, prepodavateley, nauchnykh i khozyaystvennykh rabotnikov, aspirantov, uchiteley obshcheobrazovatel'nykh shkol, uchashchikhsya; mozhet byt' polezna shirokomu krugu chitateley.