18-page sum of top Springer articles on some issues of environmental science, biological science, selected.
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Recommended innovative articles, available at http://link.springer.com/
New facts, ideas, seeds for eco-technologies for protection of environment, improving water quality, water purification, strengthening environmental safety, sustainability; also, some useful results in selected areas of biology including aquatic ecology, biomembranes and some others:
Recommended innovative articles, available at http://link.springer.com/
New facts, ideas, seeds for eco-technologies for protection of environment, improving water quality, water purification, strengthening environmental safety, sustainability; also, some useful results in selected areas of biology including aquatic ecology, biomembranes and some others:
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Principles of the theory of the ecological mechanism of water self-purification based on multiple functions of the biota in freshwater and marine ecosystems are formulated. In developing this theory, the resul...
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Suspension-feeders are found in both pelagic and benthic systems. They function as an important part of an ecosystem's biomachinery that maintains water quality in aquatic systems. They remove suspended matter...
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The goal of this review is to consider recent experimental data concerning a new parameter of prokaryotic membranes—the electrochemical protons gradient (ΔμH+) predicted by Mitchell (1966)—in the case of photopho...
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Top-down control is an important type of interspecies interactions in food webs. It is especially important for aquatic ecosystems. Phytoplankton grazers contribute to the top-down control of phytoplankton pop...
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http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-004-1875-1
On the basis of the previous publications, our new data and the existing scientific literature, we have formulated some fundamental principles that characterize the pivotal roles of the biodiversity of filter-...
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On the basis of the previous publications, our new data and the existing scientific literature, we have formulated some fundamental principles that characterize the pivotal roles of the biodiversity of filterf...
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http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/B%3AWARE.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 ecosyst...
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The experimental data analysis, concepts, and generalizations in this article provide the fundamental elements of the qualitative theory of biocontrol of water quality in a systematized form. The theory covers...
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Effects of three surfactants on the filtration rates by marine mussels were studied. The xenobiotics tested represented anionic, cationic and non-ionic surfactants (tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide, a repre...
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Effects of several surfactants and chemical mixtures on marine bivalves were studied. An anionic surfactant, sodium dodecylsulphate (SDS), and acationic surfactant, tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide (TDTMA),.....
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Extending the studies of surfactant-containing products, we have investigated the effect of the Liquid Crystal Concentrate detergent on aquatic macrophytes Elodea canadensis within laboratory microcosms. It has b...
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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 f...
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Effects of several surfactants and chemical mixtures on marine bivalves were studied. An anionic surfactant, sodium dodecylsulphate (SDS), and acationic surfactant, tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide (TDTMA),.....
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The effect of synthetic anionic surface active substance (SAS) sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS, 4 mg/l) on the kinetics of water filtration by mussel Mytilus edulis was studied. A suspension of algae Isochrysis galban...
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Earlier, the author published two books and some papers, in which he described conceptual foundations of new scientific disciplines — biochemical ecology and biochemical hydrobiology. These trends in research ...
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Responses of Unio tumidus to Mixed Chemical Preparations and the Hazard of Synecological Summation of Anthropogenic Effects
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The role of biodetritus in accumulation of elements in aquatic ecosystems
Biodetritus that formed over a 7-month period in microcosms with Viviparus viviparus, Unio pictorum, and Ceratophyllum demersum contained a number of elements. This is the first study to determine concentrations ...
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Inhibitory Analysis of Regulatory Interactions in Trophic Webs
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Basics of the molecular-ecological mechanism of water quality formation and water self-purification
The paper formulates some basics of the modern ecological theory of the polyfunctional role of biota in the molecular-ecological mechanism of water quality formation and self-purification of aquatic ecosystems...
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On studying the hazards of pollution of the biosphere: Effects of sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) on planktonic filter-feeders
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The Hazard of a Two-Level Synergism of Synecological Summation of Anthropogenic Effects
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A New Type of Effect of Potentially Hazardous Substances: Uncouplers of Pelagial–Benthal Coupling
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Imbalance of Factors Providing Control of Unicellular Plankton Populations Exposed to Anthropogenic Impact
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Effect of Amphiphilic Chemicals on Filter-Feeding Marine Organisms
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Biodiversity Protection and Quality of Water: The Role of Feedbacks in Ecosystems
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On the Biotic Self-purification of Aquatic Ecosystems: Elements of the Theory
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Decreasing the measurable concentrations of Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb in the water of the experimental systems containing Ceratophyllum demersum: The phytoremediation potential
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Polyfunctional role of biodiversity in processes leading to water purification: current conceptualizations and concluding remarks
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Effect of a Cationic Amphiphilic Compound on Rotifers
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Study of the interactions between Elodea canadensis and CuO nanoparticles
Copper is one of the key heavy metals that pollute environment and constitute a serious threat to the health of humans and ecosystems. Copper may enter the aquatic environment in both soluble and nanoparticle ...
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Laboratory Service at the Fedorovskii All-Russia Institute of Mineral Resources
This paper briefly outlines the history of analytical laboratories at the Fedorovskii All-Russia Institute of Mineral Resources (VIMS). These laboratories have recently been affiliated with the Federal Guidanc...
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Tolerance of an aquatic macrophyte Potamogeton crispus L. to sodium dodecyl sulphate
The effects of the anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl suplphate on the aquatic macrophyte Potamogeton crispus L. are studied. Concentrations of 83–133 mg/l caused fragmentation of the stems of plants. The toleranc...
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To analyze conservation problems at the ecosystem level it is necessary to investigate inter alia problems of changes in their structure, disturbances of interspecies interactions, breakage of information flow...
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Many problems of conservation occur at the molecular-genetic level of life systems. The elementary units at this level are genes represented by segments of DNA (or RNA in some viruses); the elementary events a...
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Next to the molecular and genetic level of the organization of living matter is the ontogenetic one. At this ontogenetic level individual organisms are considered as the units of life.
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Apart from microbiological standards available for bathing waters (Council Directive 2006/7/EC) and shellfish waters (Council Directive 2006.../113/EC), there are no general microbiological standards applicable t...
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Problems at the Species-Population Level
A population is a basic elementary unit at the species-population level. In the sense of evolution genetics, as population is designated a minimum self-propagating group of single-species individual animals wh...
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Ways of Preserving Living Nature
However dangerous or even tragic anthropogenic phenomena might be for living nature, Man is able to restore the population of species which are on the brink of extinction. The examples are many, exceeding by f...
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Dunaliella salina (Chlorophyta) as a Test-Object for Assessment of Detergent Pollution of a Marine Environment
The dynamics of the number of the microalga Dunaliella salina, depending on the age of the matrix culture, the number of cells, and the time of toxicant administration in the culture medium and on oxygen producti...
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The role of mercury in the processes of vital activity of the human and mammalian organisms
Mercury belongs to one of the most common heavy metals that have high biological activity in relation to human and animal cells. However, the physiological role of mercury in the metabolism of eukaryotic cells...
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Scientific Foundations and Theory of Living Nature Protection Within the System of Biological Science
The study of various problems of the protection of living nature by various disciplines, such as genetics, ecology and biogeography has resulted in the emergence of the theory of living nature protection, whic...
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Environmental capacity of petroleum hydrocarbon pollutants in Jiaozhou Bay, China: Modeling and calculation
An environmental capacity model for the petroleum hydrocarbon pollutions (PHs) in Jiaozhou Bay is constructed based on field surveys, mesocosm, and parallel laboratory experiments. Simulated results of PHs sea...
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Current changes in fish population in large rivers of Russia in the European Northeast
The current changes in fish population in waterbodies of Russia in the European Northeast reflect a real appearance of new fish species in communities as well as an active expansion of fish species which were ...
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On the Fourth International Conference “Water Ecosystems and Organisms-4”
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Application of growth-promoting rhizosphere bacterium for remediation of Pb-contaminated gray forest soil
The effect of growth-promoting rhizobacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens 21 on barley yield and grain quality was examined at growing plants in artificially Pb-contaminated gray forest soil. Application of bacterium...
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Need for Ecologization of Society’s Activities
In the 20th century, industrial production, commodity consumption and other development indices are going up the exponential curve. Neither the Earth’s biosphere, nor economy, nor man as a biological species w...
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Halophiles: A Terrestrial Analog for Life in Brines on Mars
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Contribution of biological processes to self-purification of water with respect to petroleum hydrocarbon associated with No. 0 diesel in Changjiang Estuary and Jiaozhou Bay, China
Mesocosms in 25-m3 ethylene vinyl acetate or 4-m3 polyethylene bags were performed at two sites in China: Changjiang Estuary in spring–summer 1998, and Jiaozhou Bay in autumn 1999 and spring–summer 2000. The expe...
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Water Quality of Effluent-dominated Ecosystems: Ecotoxicological, Hydrological, and Management Considerations
In arid and semi-arid regions of the southwestern United States and other parts of the world, flows of historically ephemeral streams are now perennially dominated by municipal and/or industrial effluent disch...
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A New Long-Term On Site Clean-Up Approach Applied to Non-Point Sources of Pollution
A new long-term approach to the cleaning-up of streams directly on site is proposed. This approach is based on the natural capacity of rivers to purify themselves through the discovered froth formation process...
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Use of Natural Purification of Water Cycle and Water Management as a solution towards Ecodesign
One of the major problems now affecting the world is Water Pollution. Natural forms of pollution have been always presented in water systems, Except for exceptional cases, the natural purification processes is...
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Effects of sodium dodecyl sulfate on the growth dynamics and physiological state of the microalga Dunaliella salina (Chlorophyta)
This study deals with the effects of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) (0.1, 1, and 10 mg/l) on the growth dynamics and physiological state of the microalga Dunaliella salina Teod. (Chlorophyta). The effects of SDS in...
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The Dangerous Extent of Human Impact on the Biosphere
The degree of anthropogenic transformation of the face of the Earth and of the biosphere has been the subject of numerous works; among them are Ramade 1978, WCS 1980, Ten years after Stockholm 1982, Global 200...
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A hypothesis of the evolution of biological energy transducers
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Bacteriorhodopsin-mediated photoelectric responses in lipid/water systems
Bacteriorhodopsin-mediated photopotential generation has been studied in two kinds of lipid/water systems: (1) decane solution of asolectin was used as the lipid phase; (2) a mixture of bacteriorhodopsin sheet...
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CLIMATE CHANGE, AGRICULTURE AND WETLANDS IN EASTERN EUROPE: VULNERABILITY, ADAPTATION AND POLICY
Naturally-occurring wetlands perform such functions as flood control, pollution filtration, nutrient recycling, sediment accretion, groundwater recharge and water supply, erosion control, and plant and wildlif...
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