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Enviro.sci.  17 PUBLICATIONS WITH ANNOTATIONS AND SITES, THE TEXTS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE FREE: links to full texts at ResearchGate

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LIST OF THE KEY PUBLICATIONS  WITH ANNOTATIONS AND Web-SITES, THE TEXTS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE FREE:

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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.

               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: 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227303635_Biocontrol_of_water_quality_Multifunctional_role_of_biota_in_water_self-purification ;

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49131150/;               http://www.scribd.com/doc/73175163/; 
DOI: 10.1134/S1070363210130086;

2.                          Review of ecotoxicology of nanomaterials.               Ostroumov S.A., Kotelevtsev S.V. Toxicology of nanomaterials and environment. - Ecologica.  2011, vol. 18, issue 61, pp. 3-10;

               www.scribd.com/doc/58103094/; http://scipeople.ru/publication/102825/;

3.                          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;

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.

PUBLISHED IN: 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://5bio5.blogspot.ru/2014/04/biological-filters-are-important-part.html

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261554265_Biological_filters_are_an_important_part_of_the_biosphere?ev=prf_pub

              

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;

              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/. 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259579814_Criteria-of-Ecological-Hazards-Due-to-Anthropogenic-Effects-on-the-Biota-Searching-for-a-System
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http://sites.google.com/site/2000dbs371p204criteria/;               www.scribd.com/doc/49088234; Explanation of Why this paper is useful: http://www.scribd.com/doc/60891549/;

6.                          According to experts in aquatic ecology, this paper gave a revolutionary new insight into the core functions and identity of ecosystem as a bioreactor to maintain water quality;               Ostroumov S. A. An aquatic ecosystem: a large-scale diversified bioreactor with a water self-purification function. - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2000. Vol. 374, P. 514-516. 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/215907363_An_aquatic_ecosystem_a_large-scale_diversified_bioreactor_with_a_water_self-purification_function._-_Doklady_Biological_Sciences_2000._Vol._374_P._514-516

 www.scribd.com/doc/49065542; http://www.scribd.com/doc/49069997;

              

7.                          This paper discovered the multi-faceted role of the entire broad range of aquatic organisms as a unique (both changeable and fragile)  part of the mechanism of ecosystem service to improve water quality;

               The Concept of Aquatic Biota as a Labile and Vulnerable Component of the Water Self-Purification System. - Doklady Biological Sciences, Vol. 372, 2000, pp. 286–289.  
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12375514_The_concept_of_aquatic_biota_as_a_labile_and_vulnerable_component_of_the_water_self-purification_system
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http://www.scribd.com/doc/49069991;

http://sites.google.com/site/2000dbs372p286biotalabil/;

Russian version: Doklady Akademii Nauk, Vol. 372, No. 2, 2000, pp. 279–282.

It is the first paper in which it was clearly shown that aquatic biota (the sum of organisms) is the core part of the ecological mechanism of water self-purification in healthy aquatic ecosystems. The important attributes of this core part of the mechanism are: 1) lability; 2) vulnerability to anthropogenic impact.

Another draft of the comment:

The author formulated a new fundamental concept of the complex of organisms of aquatic ecosystem. According to the concept, the biota is a central, labile and vulnerable (to pollutants) part of the ecological mechanism of water self-purification and upgrade of water quality.

Key words: Geoscience, water quality, assessment, biological activity of surfactants, chemical pollution, self-purification, water, aquatic organisms, contaminants, aquatic ecosystems;

               

Fragment of the text: Self-purification of water is a complex process including physical, chemical, and biological components [1–3]. The vulnerability of different components of the water self-purification system to anthropogenic factors is as yet insufficiently understood.The goal of this work was to review the literature and our own unpublished experimental findings concerning potential vulnerability of the biotic component of the water self-purification system to chemical pollutants.

A new role of biota as a core, labile, vulnerable part of ecosystem and upgrade of water quality;

             

                                    

              

8.                         It is the first study in which it was shown that the vital function of aquatic organisms (catalysis of matter transfer, and biogeochemical flows of chemical elements through the water column in the normal ecosystem) is decreased by the chemical pollutant as represented by a synthetic surfactant.  
The new author’s experiments discovered that the biota-driven fluxes of the matter and chemical elements in a model ecosystem were decreased by a chemical pollutant exemplified by a synthetic surfactant. 
S. A. Ostroumov and M. P. Kolesnikov. Biocatalysis of Matter Transfer in a Microcosm Is Inhibited by a Contaminant: Effects of a Surfactant on Limnea stagnalis. [Lymnaea stagnalis] - Doklady Biological Sciences, Vol. 373, 2000, pp. 397–399. Translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk, Vol. 373, No. 2, 2000, pp. 278–280. 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12309563_Biocatalysis_of_matter_transfer_in_a_microcosm_is_inhibited_by_a_contaminant_effects_of_a_surfactant_on_Limnea_stagnalis
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www.scribd.com/doc/49069985;     
Explanation: Limnea stagnalis. [Lymnaea stagnalis] is a very common species of snail in ponds in many parts of the world. 
Lymnaea stagnalis, better known as the great pond snail, is a species of large air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae.
It is a very common species of a mollusk (snail)  that lives in freshwater bodies in many countries; it is a very common snail in ponds in many regions of the world.   

               

9.                          The paper discovered new mechanisms triggering eutrophication and as a result, a  new solution to the problem of eutrophication;       Ostroumov S. A. The Synecological Approach to the Problem of Eutrophication. - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2001,  v.381, No.1-6; pp.559-562.  
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/10614405_The_synecological_approach_to_the_problem_of_eutrophication
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49065550/;         

10.                        First measurements, first publication: New quantitative data on how aquatic mollusks drive fluxes of the chemical elements.     
 The first measurements of the concentrations of the chemical elements (carbon, nitrogen,  P, Si, and Al) in the pellets (biodetritus) generated by mollusks. The first quantitative assessment of the contribution of the pellets of aquatic mollusks to the biogeochemical flows of the chemical elements C, N, P, Si, and Al.  
AQUATIC MOLLUSKS TRANSFER CHEM. ELEMENTS THROUGH ECOSYSTEM.
Ostroumov S. A., M. P. Kolesnikov. Pellets of Some Mollusks in the Biogeochemical Flows of C, N, P, Si, and Al. - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2001, v.379, p.378-381. 
Full text free:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259579605_Pellets-of-some-mollusks-in-the-biogeochemical-flows-of-C-N-P-Si-and-Al
www.scribd.com/doc/49065604; http://www.scribd.com/doc/45911730;             
PMID: 12918380;  scribd.com/doc/49065604; http://www.scribd.com/doc/45911730;  

11.                        Modernization and refreshing of the most fundamental concepts, notions, and terminology of ecology;               Ostroumov S.A. New Definitions of the Concepts and Terms Ecosystem and Biogeocenosis. - Doklady Biological Sciences. 2002, v.383, No.1-6; pp.141-143.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259579894_49065580-New-definitions-of-the-concepts-and-terms-ecosystem-and-biogeocenosis-S-A-Ostroumov-Dokl-Biol-Sci-2002-v-383-p-141-143-http-www-scribd-com-doc
;

              www.scribd.com/doc/49065580;

12.                        New conceptualization of how all biodiversity of the aquatic organisms functions together toward up-grading water quality;  
NEW THEORY OF AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION: KEY TO WATER SAFETY.
Ostroumov S.A. On the Biotic Self-purification of Aquatic Ecosystems: Elements of the Theory. - Doklady Biological Sciences. v.396, No.1-6; pp.206-211. 
online free:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200567576_On_the_biotic_self-purification_of_aquatic_ecosystems_elements_of_the_theory
http://www.scribd.com/doc/48099028/;         

13.                        New approach and innovative methodology to experimentally analyze interactions of organisms;               
NEW METHOD IN ECOLOGY: INHIBITORY ANALYSIS.
Inhibitory Analysis of Regulatory Interactions in Trophic Webs. - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2001, v.377, No.1-6; pp.139-141. 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/216167167_Inhibitory_Analysis_of_Regulatory_Interactions_in_Trophic_Webs
;
www.scribd.com/doc/49065567;               

14.                        Discovery of a new type of negative effects of chemical pollutants on aquatic organisms and ecosystems. The first data on the new negative effects of organic pollutants  - detergents and surfactants – on functioning of marine bivalve mollusks. The first data on how the detergents and surfactants slow down (inhibit) water filtration by those bivalve mollusks,  mussels and oysters, which are of huge importance to aquaculture.               
NEW FACTS DISCOVERED NEW ASPECT OF HAZARDS OF SEAWATER POLLUTION BY DETERGENTS: TOXICITY TO MOLLUSCA.
Effect of Amphiphilic Chemicals on Filter-Feeding Marine Organisms. - Doklady Biological Sciences; 2001, v.378, No.1-6; pp.248-250. 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259402603_Paper_published_titled_Effect_of_Amphiphilic_Chemicals_on_Filter-Feeding_Marine_Organisms._Doklady_Biol.Sci._378_248-250 ;

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49065593; http://www.scribd.com/doc/59417067/;
www.scribd.com/doc/49065604; http://www.scribd.com/doc/45911730;              

              

15.                        New fundamental concepts and  new scientific terms, to develop terminology in environmental science, in ecology: Two-Level Synergism, Synecological Summation of Anthropogenic Effects;               
Ostroumov  S. A. The Hazard of a Two-Level Synergism of Synecological Summation of Anthropogenic Effects.  - Doklady Biological Sciences 2001, v.380, No.1-6; pp.499-501. 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/10614388_The_hazard_of_a_two-level_synergism_of_synecological_summation_of_anthropogenic_effects;

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49065634/;         

 http://www.scribd.com/doc/49065634/Danbio52-2001v380p847-E-2level-synergism;

New fundamental concepts were formulated in this article:

1) a two-level synergism;

2) synecological summation of man-made effects.

In the original Russian edition (Doklady Akademii Nauk), the article starts on page 847.          

              

16.                        It is the first time that some negative effect of chemical pollutant (synthetic surfactant) on feeding activity of rotifers was discovered;             
NEW FACT: SURFACTANT SLOWS DOWN FEEDING, FILTRATION RATE OF KEY PLANKTON ORGANISMS, ROTIFERS. DANGER TO WATER QUALITY.
Ostroumov S.A., N. Walz; R. Rusche. Effect of a Cationic Amphiphilic Compound on Rotifers - Doklady Biological Sciences, v.390, No.1-6; pp.252-255; [explanation of the terminology: Amphiphilic Compound = surfactant ]
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259579858_Effect-of-a-Cationic-Amphiphilic-Compound-on-Rotifers

http://www.scribd.com/doc/52634169/          

17.                        It is the first discovery of the new aspect of fundamental cause-effect link between the conservation of biodiversity and protection of water quality.  This paper is the first that stresses that this is a two-way link;

              Biodiversity Protection and Quality of Water: The Role of Feedbacks in Ecosystems. - Doklady Biological Sciences, v.382, No.1-6; pp.18-21; 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11371556_Biodiversity_protection_and_quality_of_water_the_role_of_feedbacks_in_ecosystems

http://www.scribd.com/doc/42558469/;         

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