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aquatic ecosystems and water quality.Publications after 2002 (selected)


Publications on aquatic ecosystems and water quality, after 2002 (selected):



Question: Why are these publications  important?

Answer: They report key new facts on Water quality, ecosystems.

These facts lead to innovative conclusions which in turn lead to a Big Change in priorities, management of water resources, and biological resources.

Why?
During the period 1998 – 2012 a series of papers on aquatic ecosystems, water quality and hazard assessment were published by the author. The size of the papers was limited. The author got more facts in support of the conclusions of those papers.  A broad range of facts which supported the points and conclusions of those papers was presented in a book that was published by the author, a Fulbright Award winner.

The innovations in the papers and the book were the conclusions on a bigger role (than it was thought before) of aquatic organisms in safety and sustainability of water resources and water supply.
This conclusion leads to not only a fundamental change in the vision of ecology of freshwater and seas but also to a change in management of natural resources, water resources and  bioresources. The conclusions of Dr. S.Ostroumov's papers mean that without healthy aquatic ecosystems and healthy state of aquatic organisms it is impossible to have safe water supply. It makes the protection of biodiversity and healthy state of aquatic organisms not only a humanistic wish but also a rigid prerequisite, imperative requirement for having water of acceptable quality. 
This is a fundamental change in goals and practice of environmental and resource management of to-day and to-morrow.


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Ostroumov S. A. Biocontrol of Water Quality: Multifunctional Role of Biota in Water Self-Purification. – Russian Journal of General Chemistry, 2010, Vol. 80, No. 13, pp. 2754–2761. ---http://www.scribd.com/doc/49131150; http://www.scribd.com/doc/73175163/; DOI: 10.1134/S1070363210130086; Innovative conceptualization of ecosystem’s biomachinery (a new scientific term that was proposed by the author; it means ecological mechanisms that include biological communities and biodiversity) which improves water quality. The innovative experimental data analysis, concepts, and generalizations in this article provide the fundamental elements of the new qualitative theory of biocontrol of water quality in a systematized form. The theory covers water self-purification in freshwater and marine ecosystems. The theory is supported by the results of the author’s experimental studies of the effects exerted by some chemical pollutants including synthetic surfactants, detergents, and other xenobiotics on aquatic organisms. The new fundamental conceptualization provides a basis for remediation of polluted aquatic ecosystems including purification of water bodies and streams, and briefly present the qualitative theory of the self-purification mechanism of aquatic ecosystems, phytoremediation and other types of technologies.
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Ostroumov S.A.  Aquatic ecosystem as a bioreactor: water purification and some other functions.  - Riv Biol. 2004, 97(1):67-78. PMID: 15648211 [PubMed - indexed];  
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52656760
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52656760/4Rivista-Biologia97p39Aquatic-Bioreactor-w-Add
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Vorozhun I. M., S. A. Ostroumov. On studying the hazards of pollution of the biosphere: effects of sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) on planktonic filter-feeders. - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2009, Vol. 425, pp. 133–134. Tables. Bibliogr. 15 refs. http://www.scribd.com/doc/45914806;  ISSN 0012-4966. DOI: 10.1134/S0012496609020136;  http://www.springerlink.com/content/p7754h672w814m30/; Full text: http://www.scribd.com/doc/45914806;  http://www.citeulike.org/user/ATP/article/6113581;
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Ostroumov S.A. Studying effects of some surfactants and detergents on filter-feeding bivalves  // Hydrobiologia. 2003. Vol. 500. P.341-344  [including effects of surfactants TDTMA and SDS on Crassostrea gigas]. www.springerlink.com/index/k05884h730t228w4.pdf; www.citeulike.org/user/ATP/article/9737871;
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Ostroumov S.A., Widdows J. Inhibition of mussel suspension feeding by surfactants of three classes. - Hydrobiologia. 2006. Vol. 556, No.1. P. 381 – 386. http://www.scribd.com/doc/45958156/; scribd.com/doc/59544597/;
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Ostroumov S.A.  Biological Effects of Surfactants. CRC Press. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, London, New York. 2006. 279 p. Sites: Abstract: http://www.scribd.com/doc/73758855/;
Citation: http://www.scribd.com/doc/58216082/;
http://www.scribd.com/doc/64066178/Biological-effects-of-Surfactants-cover-abstract-contents-reviews; [Book cover, abstract, contents, list of reviews].
http://www.scribd.com/doc/81807963/Book-Biological-Effects-of-Surf-Act-Ants; Book Biological effects of surfactants, by Dr. S.A.Ostroumov, ...;
http://www.scribd.com/doc/82403759/Citation-of-Book Citation of the book 'Biological Effects of Surfactants' Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, ...;
http://www.scribd.com/doc/78451356/; Australia. Book 'Biological Effects of Surfactants' was bought by 7 Australian libraries;
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Ostroumov S.A. Some aspects of water filtering activity of filter-feeders // Hydrobiologia. 2005. Vol. 542, No. 1. P. 275 – 286.  text: www.scribd.com/doc/44105992/  new terms: ecological tax; ecological repair of water quality;
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Ostroumov S. A. On the Multifunctional Role of the Biota in the Self-Purification of Aquatic  Ecosystems . - Russian Journal of Ecology, 2005. Vol. 36, No. 6, P. 414-420. http://www.scribd.com/doc/45572968; http://www.scribd.com/doc/49131150;
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Ostroumov S.A. Suspension-feeders as factors influencing water quality in aquatic ecosystems.   In: The Comparative Roles of Suspension-Feeders in Ecosystems, R.F. Dame,  S. Olenin (Eds),  Springer, Dordrecht,  2004.  pp.  147-164.  Chapter 9 in this book. http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/book/978-1-4020-3028-4
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Ostroumov S.A. Biomachinery for maintaining water quality and natural water self-purification in  marine and estuarine systems: elements of a qualitative theory //  International Journal of Oceans and Oceanography.  2006.  Volume 1, No.1. p.111-118. [ISSN 0973-2667]. www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/100141.pdf;
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Ostroumov S.A. The effect of synthetic surfactants on the hydrobiological mechanisms of water self-purification. - Water Resources. 2004.  Volume 31, Number 5, p. 502-510. http://www.scribd.com/doc/41169530/WR502;  DOI 10.1023/B:WARE.0000041919.77628.8d.  [Long-term studies of the biological effect of surfactants, including the effect surfactants exert on filter feeders, are reviewed. The role  of filter feeders in the functioning of freshwater and marine ecosystems is analyzed. New aspects in the assessment of environmental hazard due to the impact of chemical pollutants, including surfactants and detergents, are established]. In Russian: http://www.scribd.com/doc/57648905/4VodnResursy-R;
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Ostroumov S. A.  On some issues of maintaining water quality and self-purification.- Water Resources, 2005. Volume 32, Number 3, p. 305-313. http://www.scribd.com/doc/57511892/0305 [Generalizations presented in this paper represent, in systematized form, the basic elements of the qualitative theory of water self-purification in freshwater and marine ecosystems. Recommendations are given for maintaining water quality and sustainable development of water resources. Results of experimental studies of the effect exerted by the surfactant Triton X-100 and the OMO synthetic detergent on mollusks Unio tumidus]. ISSN 0097-8078 (Print) 1608-344X (Online).  DOI 10.1007/s11268-005-0039-7.
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About the author (Dr. S.A.O., Fulbright Award winner):

http://www.scribd.com/doc/99555491
Citation of this author:
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/07/world-wide-and-international-citing-of.html
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Key words:
water quality, pollution, aquatic ecosystems, food chain,  bivalves, filter-feeders, suspension feeders, water self-purification, ecosystem health, freshwater,  marine mussels, oysters, environmental safety, water sustainability,