Ecology, Springer publications, selected articles.
key words: hydrobiology, limnology, biological oceanography, ecotoxicology, freshwater, marine ecology, environmental, water quality, filter-feeders, aquatic, ecosystems, bivalves, surfactants,
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key words: hydrobiology, limnology, biological oceanography, ecotoxicology, freshwater, marine ecology, environmental, water quality, filter-feeders, aquatic, ecosystems, bivalves, surfactants,
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On the Multifunctional Role of the Biota in the Self-Purification of Aquatic Ecosystems
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...; - Chapter:
Suspension-Feeders as Factors Influencing Water Quality in Aquatic Ecosystems.
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...; - Article
Inhibitory analysis of top-down control: new keys to studying eutrophication, algal blooms, and water self-purification;
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...; - Article
Some aspects of water filtering activity of filter-feeders.
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-...; - Chapter
Some aspects of water filtering activity of filter-feeders.
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... - Article
Inhibition of Mussel Suspension Feeding by Surfactants of Three Classes.
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...; - Article
Studying effects of some surfactants and detergents on filter-feeding bivalves.
Effects of several surfactants and chemical mixtures on marine bivalves were studied. An anionic surfactant, sodium dodecylsulphate (SDS), and a cationic surfactant, tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide (TDTMA)...; - Chapter
Studying effects of some surfactants and detergents on filter-feeding bivalves.
Effects of several surfactants and chemical mixtures on marine bivalves were studied. An anionic surfactant, sodium dodecylsulphate (SDS), and a cationic surfactant, tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide (TDTMA)...; - Article
On the concepts of biochemical ecology and hydrobiology: Ecological chemomediators.
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 ...; - Article
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 ...; - Article
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...; - Article
Polyfunctional role of biodiversity in processes leading to water purification: current conceptualizations and concluding remarks.
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Problems at the Ecosystem Level.
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...; - Chapter
Molecular-Genetic Level.
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...; - Chapter
Problems at the Ontogenetic Level.
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. - Chapter
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...; - Chapter
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...; - Chapter
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...; - Article
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... - Article
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... - Article
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... - Chapter
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...; - Article
Mercury in bottom sediments of the Amur River, its flood-plain lakes and estuary, Eastern Siberia
Mercury (Hg) is an element of a special concern in the Amur River basin, where numerous cinnabar deposits and manifestations have been prospected. Moreover, the territory is under heavy anthropogenic pressure ... - Chapter
Environmental Problems and Challenges for Coastal Zone Management in the Neva Estuary (Eastern Gulf of Finland)
Heavy nutrient and organic matter loading, resulting in enhanced primary productivity, is currently recognised as the most serious environmental problem for the Neva Estuary and adjacent parts of the eastern G... - Chapter
Fate and Effects of the Surfactant Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate
Surface-active agents, or surfactants, are detersive chemicals characterized by having two different moieties, one polar and the other nonpolar, at opposite ends of a single molecule. The polar moiety is refer...****- Article
Ecological relations of agricultural populations of ecdysteroid-containing plants Rhaponticum carthamoides (Willd.) Iljin and Serratula coronata L. with herbivorous insects report 2. Composition variability of phytoecdysteroids in agrocenoses and their role in the vulnerability of plants to phytophagans.
The accumulation and variability of ecdysteroids, which are analogs of the insect molting hormones, were studied during ontogeny of agricultural populations of Rhaponticum carthamoides (Leuzea carthamoides DC.) a...** - Chapter
Response of aquatic communities to anthropogenic stress: a comparative study of Neva Bay and the eastern Gulf of Finland
A comparative study of the long-term data (1982–1996) on the ecosystems’ state in Neva Bay and the eastern Gulf of Finland showed spatial differences and temporal changes in the structure and functioning of th... - Article
Response of aquatic communities to anthropogenic stress: a comparative study of Neva Bay and the eastern Gulf of Finland
A comparative study of the long-term data (1982–1996) on the ecosystems' state in Neva Bay and the eastern Gulf of Finland showed spatial differences and temporal changes in the structure and functioning of th...
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Organizational and Legal Problems of the Protection of Living Nature.
The basic organizational and legal problems involved in the protection of living nature can be divided into two groups: (1) those which can only be solved on the international level, and (2) those which can be... - Article
Influence of laundry detergents on the abundance dynamics and physiological state of the benthic microalga Attheya ussurensis (Bacillariophyta) in laboratory culture.
This study examines the influence of the detergents “Obychnyi poroshok” and “Ariel” (at 0.1, 1, and 10 mg/l) on the growth and physiological state of the benthic marine microalga Attheya ussurensis. Cell number, ... - Article
Integrated outdoor culture of two estuarine macroalgae as biofilters for dissolved nutrients from Sparus auratus waste waters.
An integrated outdoor cultivation of two macroalgal species: Ulva rotundata (Chlorophyta) and Gracilariopsis longissima (Rhodophyta) was designed. The macroalgae were cultured in effluents from an intensive marin...;** - Chapter
Problems of Prognostication.
According to the analysis presented in the previous chapters, the majority of conservation problems may be divided into several groups associated with the main levels of living matter organization. It appears ...;** - Article
Influence of benthic and interstitial processes on nutrient changes along a regulated reach of a large river (Rhône River, France)
Benthic and hyporheic (i.e. the water-saturated interstitial zone beneath river bed-sediments) processes together modify particulate and dissolved nutrient fluxes in streams, but the relative importance of the... - Chapter
The Roles of Suspension-Feeders in Ecosystems: Synthesis and Conclusions.
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Microbial community analysis by FISH for mathematical modelling of selective enrichment of gel-entrapped nitrifiers obtained from domestic wastewater;
Nitrifying activated sludge from natural domestic sewage was entrapped in hydrogel beads, which were subsequently enriched for nitrifiers in a continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR). Fluorescently labelled, 16... - Article
In situ biofiltration: a means to limit the dispersal of effluents from marine finfish cage aquaculture.
Net pen fish farms generally enrich the surrounding waters and the underlying sediments with nutrients and organic matter, and these loadings can cause a variety of environmental problems, such as algal blooms...; - Article
Herbicide bioconcentration in Cladophora glomerata: atrazine removal in a eutrophic agricultural river.
Atrazine is the most commonly used agricultural herbicide in the midwestern cornbelt of the U.S.A. This project investigated atrazine bioconcentration in Cladophora glomerata (L.) Kütz, the dominant algae by biom... - Chapter
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