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Criteria of ecological hazards due to anthropogenic effects on the biota: searching for a system.

Criteria of ecological hazards due to anthropogenic effects on the biota: searching for a system.
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paper was published:
Doklady Biological Sciences   (Dokl. Biol. Sci.), 2000. Mar-Apr; 371: 204-206.
Ostroumov S.A. Moscow State University.
PMID: 10833660 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]; Full text online free:
http://sites.google.com/site/2000dbs371p204criteria/; 
http://ru.scribd.com/doc/49065476/; http://ru.scribd.com/doc/49069767/;
http://ru.scribd.com/doc/49088234/
Why this paper is useful: http://www.scribd.com/doc/60891549/;
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Abstract (in addition to PubMed):
Abstract in short: 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;  

Abstract in more detail: 
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. The currently accepted system of criteria for evaluating ecological hazards from man-made chemicals (which is used in W.Europe, N.America and in some other countries) is outdated and vulnerable to criticism. The author proposed a new concept of the system of the criteria for evaluating the ecological hazard from man-made impact. The author suggested to assess man-made impacts (including effects of pollutants and xenobiotics) on the biota according to the following four levels of disturbance in biological and ecological systems: (1) the level of individual and populational responses; (2) the level of aggregated responses; (3) the level of stability and integrity of the ecosystem; (4) the level of contributions of the ecosystem into biospheric processes. An example is given of how to apply the proposed system of criteria to the analysis of concrete experimental data. To exemplify the efficiency of the proposed system of criteria, it is shown how to use it to analyze the new original data on effects of a non-ionic surfactant on water filtering by bivalves. It is concluded that the proposed system of criteria will be helpful in better assessing environmental hazards from anthropogenic effects on the biota including effects of man-made chemicals polluting ecosystems. The examples of the tables in this paper: A new system of principles for analysis of man-made impact: the level-block approach to analysis of ecological hazards (Tab.1); the synthetic surfactant Triton X-100 (0.5 mg/L) inhibits water filtering by the bivalve mollusk, mussels Mytilus edulis (Tab. 2). "The proposed level–block approach to analysis of ecological hazards of anthropogenic alterations in ecosystems allows the multiplicity of anthropogenic effects on the biota to be systematized. This approach may be used to develop criteria for estimation and classification of ecological hazards due to anthropogenic effects" (p.206)]. ISSN 0012-4966. Distributed by Springer, orderdept@springer-sbm.com; Full text free: http://ru.scribd.com/doc/49069767/; http://ru.scribd.com/doc/49065476/; http://ru.scribd.com/doc/49088234/;
http://sites.google.com/site/2000dbs371p204criteria/; PMID: 10833660 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10833660; http://scipeople.ru/users/2943391/;

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