Water quality, role of organisms. Selected publications
Why the publications are interesting and what is new:
discovery made: a key to aquatic ecosystem health:
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/07/discovered-key-feature-of-aquatic.html
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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/52656760/4Rivista-Biologia97p39Aquatic-Bioreactor-w-Add
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/52656760/4Rivista-Biologia97p39Aquatic-Bioreactor-w-Add
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Ostroumov S.A., Dodson S.I., Hamilton D., Peterson S.A., Wetzel R.G. Medium-term and long-term priorities in ecological studies. – Riv. Biol. 2003, 96(2):327-332. PMID: 14595906 [PubMed] [Priorities in ecology and environmental sciences]: http://www.scribd.com/doc/57124875/; http://www.scribd.com/doc/52655707/ ;
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Ostroumov S.A. Anthropogenic effects on the biota: towards a new system of principles and criteria for analysis of ecological hazards.- Riv. Biol. (Rivista di Biologia) 2003, 96(1): 159-169. Review. PMID: 12852181 [PubMed – indexed; http://www.scribd.com/doc/52636721/3-System-of-Criteria; New criteria in order to answer the question: is a given chemical substance hazardous to environment or not?
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Ostroumov S.A. [An amphiphilic substance inhibits the mollusk capacity to filter phytoplankton cells from water]. - Izv Akad Nauk Ser Biol. 2001. (1):108-116. Russian. PMID: 11236572 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Ostroumov S.A. Biological filtering and ecological machinery for self-purification and bioremediation in aquatic ecosystems: towards a holistic view. - Riv Biol. 1998; 91(2):221-232. PMID: 9857844; PubMed – indexed;
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Ostroumov S.A. Inhibitory analysis of top-down control: new keys to studying eutrophication, algal blooms, and water self-purification. – Hydrobiologia. 2002, vol. 469, p. 117-129; http://www.scribd.com/doc/52598579/;
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Ostroumov S.A. Polyfunctional role of biodiversity in processes leading to water purification: current conceptualizations and concluding remarks. Hydrobiologia. 2002. V. 469 (1-3): 203-204. http://www.scribd.com/doc/52627327/2H469p203-Polyfunctional-role-w-Addendum;
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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.
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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.
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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.