Short List of publications, environmental science. Selected.
(to be continued) http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/12/short-list-of-publications.html
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Key words:
Landmark publications, new step, innovations, discoveries, new conceptualization, new terminology, environmental science, ecology,
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1. 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.
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; Abstract: http://www.chemeurope.com/en/publications/211554/biocontrol-of-water-quality-multifunctional-role-of-biota-in-water-self-purification.html;
Abstract: http://www.scribd.com/doc/75101299/
Full text: http://www.scribd.com/doc/49131150/; http://www.scribd.com/doc/73175163/;
DOI: 10.1134/S1070363210130086;
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2. A review of ecotoxicology of nanomaterials including nanoparticles containing metals and other nanoparticles was presented in the paper:
Ostroumov S.A., Kotelevtsev S.V. Toxicology of nanomaterials and environment. - Ecologica. 2011, vol. 18, issue 61, pp. 3-10. http://www.scribd.com/doc/104801060; [www.scribd.com/doc/58103094/]; http://scipeople.ru/publication/102825/
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3. In this publication, a new concept was formulated: a new conceptualization which is based on his suggestion to identify a new type of matter in the biosphere. The author called it «ex-living matter» (ELM). The author discusses his experiments (together with his co-authors) which provide the factual foundation to this conceptualization;
Ostroumov S.A. Some issues of chemico-biotic interactions and the new in the teaching on the biosphere / series: Ecological Studies, Hazards, Solutions. Volume 17. Moscow, MAX Press, 2011. – 20 p. ISBN 978-5-317-03710-9;
http://scipeople.ru/publication/102875/; http://www.scribd.com/doc/57818520/
4. A review of the author’s studies of aquatic organisms, mainly marine and freshwater invertebrates that are filter-feeders - biological filters - as an important part of the biosphere and hydrosphere. The studies were conducted in laboratories of four countries.
Ostroumov S.A. Biological filters are an important part of the biosphere // Science in Russia. 2009. № 2. P. 30-36. [The journal ‘Science in Russia’ is published by the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences, both in English and in Russian; Nauka Publishers, Moscow; ISSN 0869-7078. www.ras.ru, ©Russian Academy of Sciences Presidium.]
http://www.scribd.com/doc/104805990
https://sites.google.com/site/ostroumovsa/ostroumov-sa-biological-filters-are-an-important-part-of-the-biosphere--science-in-russia-2009--2-p-30-36
5. This paper formulated a fundamentally new solution to the problem of selecting criteria for identification and assessing environmental hazards of chemical pollutants, toxicants; the paper explains why the currently accepted set of criteria is non-efficient and leads to mistakes; Ostroumov S. A. Criteria of ecological hazards due to anthropogenic effects on the biota: searching for a system. - Dokl Biol Sci (Doklady Biological Sciences). 2000; 371: 204-206.
Doklady Biological Sciences: ISSN PRINT: 0012-4966. ISSN ONLINE: 1608-3105. http://sites.google.com/site/2000dbs371p204criteria/; www.scribd.com/doc/49088234;
Blog post:
Blog post on a closely related paper in Rivista di Biologia:
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-new-concept-of-system-of-approaches.html
A closely related paper: A new set of criteria in order to answer the question was formulated in this paper: is a given chemical substance hazardous to environment or not? Reference:
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.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52636721/ PMID: 12852181 [PubMed – indexed]; http://www.scribd.com/doc/52636721/3-System-of-Criteria;
key words: innovation, new solution, criteria, assessment, environmental, ecological, hazards, danger, chemical, pollutants, toxicants,
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