EXPANDING THE CONCEPTUAL APPARATUS OF ECOLOGY: NEW CONCEPTS - BIOCHEMICAL ECOLOGY, ECOLOGICAL CHEMOMEDIATORS, ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMOREGULATORS.
New contributions to fundamental concepts. 1.EXPANDING THE CONCEPTUAL APPARATUS OF ECOLOGY: NEW CONCEPTS - BIOCHEMICAL ECOLOGY, ECOLOGICAL CHEMOMEDIATORS, ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMOREGULATORS.
The basic concepts and principles of the new discipline of biochemical ecology were formulated in the book "Introduction to Biochemical Ecology" (1986) [1].
As we see it, this line of research is focused on the role of chemicals in interorganismal interactions, in communication and regulation of supraorganismal systems. Another part of the biochemical ecology is associated with the study of the fate and transformations of the chemicals (including xenobiotics) which are external to the body of organisms when they interact with the organisms. For the biochemical ecology the various types of chemicals are of interest: both the natural compounds, and the substances that were synthesized by man.
We proposed and justified the new concepts and terms "ecological chemomediators", and "ecological chemoregulators" (in the same book, then in the articles listed below [2-5]).
Literature
1. S.A. Ostroumov. The book "Introduction to Biochemical Ecology" (1986, Moscow: Moscow State University Press); http://scipeople.ru/publication/67928/; http://scipeople.ru/publication/69892/;
2. S.A. Ostroumov. A new science in the environmental and biosphere science: Biochemical ecology / / Ecology Environmental and Life. 2004. No. 4 (22), p. 5-12;
3. S.A. Ostroumov. Biochemical Ecology and Hydrobiology: a contribution to the sustainable use of biological resources and economic development / / Results of the work of the section "Noosphere knowledge and technologies", Moscow, RAEN (Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, RANS), pp. 224-230;
4. S.A. Ostroumov. On the concepts of Biochemical Ecology and Hydrobiology: environmental chemomediators / / Siberian Journal of Ecology. - 2006. - 13, No. 1. - p. 73-82;
5. S.A. Ostroumov. New scientific discipline in the environmental and biosphere science: biochemical ecology and biochemical hydrobiology / Environmental Chemistry [Ekologicheskaja Khimija] 2009, 18 (2): p.102-110.
See also the brief coverage of this issue on page 40 in the publication:
Ostroumov S.A. Chemical and biotic (Chemico-biotic) interactions and the new in the teaching of the biosphere by V.I. Vernadsky. Moscow, 2009, MAKS-Press. – 52 p. Editor: Academician G.V. Dobrovolsky. (Series: Science. Education. Innovations. Issue 10). ISBN 978-5-317-03005-6.
- See paragraph XVII. "The creation of new scientific disciplines: biochemical ecology and biochemical hydrobiology" in Table 6 of that publication.
The place of these new concepts in the general ecology and in its development was outlined in the monograph:
Rosenberg G.S., Mozgovoi D.P., Gelashvili D.B. Ecology: the Elements of the Theoretical Structures of Modern Ecology. Samara: Samara Scientific Center of RAS. 1999. 396 p.
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