Ecology innovations. Top articles, publications. Bibliography, selected.
LIST OF THE 44 KEY PUBLICATIONS OF a scientist at Moscow State University, WITH ANNOTATIONS AND SITES, THE full TEXTS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE FREE, links to ResearchGate, Scribd; very useful indeed, 08.05.14:

http://5bio5.blogspot.ru/2014/05/ecology-innovations-top-articles.html

Evidence of merit: CITATION, BOOKMARKED, UPVOTED, DOWNLOADED articles:http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2014/04/evidence-of-merit-articles-on-enviro.html

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.

Ostroumov S. A. 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.
Prior to this paper, no consistent system of the criteria existed...
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.
A new concept of ecosystem function:
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
;
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
;
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 facts and concepts. Discovery of a fundamentally new type of environmental hazards from chemical pollution.
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.
Discovery of a new fact that detergents and surfactants (at a sublethal concentration) provide environmental hazard to the important group of zooplankton organisms, namely rotifers.

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.
Innovative concepts that provide new arguments in biodiveristy conservation, water ecosystem protection, protection of aquatic environment:
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/;

18. The first identification of a new type of negative effect of chemical pollutants; A New Type of Effect of Potentially Hazardous Substances: Uncouplers of Pelagial–Benthal Coupling. - Doklady Biological Sciences 2002. v.383, No.1-6; pp.127-130.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200576296_A_new_type_of_effect_of_potentially_hazardous_substances_uncouplers_of_pelagialbenthal_coupling

[124 views, 33 downloads by Apr 15, 2014]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/45913695/;

19.

NEW PRINCIPLES FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE, ORGANISMS THAT LIVE IN

WATER.

Modernization of the system of principles for conservation of biodiversity;

Formulation of a new relevant principle: conservation and protection of a key aspect of ecosystem’s service in up-grading water quality; an innovative suggestion to establish a special type of protected aquatoria to protect organisms that filter and purify water;

System of Principles forConservation of the Biogeocenotic Function and the Biodiversity ofFilter-Feeders. - Doklady Biological Sciences 2002, v.383, No.1-6; pp.147-150.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259579921_Article_published_System_of_principles_for_conservation_of_the_biogeocenotic_function_and_the_biodiversity_of_filter-feeders

[75 views, 16 downloads by April 15, 2014]
http://www.scribd.com/doc/45911862; http://www.scribd.com/doc/49065586;

20.
Innovative analysis of balance in populations:
Innovative analysis of the factors that create environmental balance as related to plankton, which in turn is relevant to proper management of water resources, and water quality sustainability;

Ostroumov S. A. Imbalance of Factors Providing Control of Unicellular Plankton Populations Exposed to Anthropogenic Impact. - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2001, v.379, No.1-6; pp.341-343.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/10614342_Imbalance_of_factors_providing_control_of_unicellular_plankton_populations_exposed_to_anthropogenic_impact

www.scribd.com/doc/49065596;
[the article was bookmarked by Internet users];

21. New fundamental concept: Synecological Summation of Anthropogenic Effects;
The first data on discovery that chemical pollutants (detergents and surfactants) decreased the filtration rate by the common freshwater mollusks, freshwater mussels Unio tumidus. A new type of complex anthropogenic effects on ecosystem was found which the author proposed to name ‘synecological summation’.

Ostroumov S.A. Responses of Unio tumidus to Mixed Chemical Preparations and the Hazard of Synecological Summation of Anthropogenic Effects. - Doklady Biological Sciences, v.380, No.1-6; pp.492-495;
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259579828_2001.49065621-Responses-of-Unio-tumidus-to-Mixed-Chemical-Preparations-and-the-Hazard-of-Synecological-Summation-of-Anthropogenic-Effects-Dan ;
www.scribd.com/doc/49065621/;

22. A new contribution to the scientific basis of phytoremediation and phytotechnology for water treatment;
AQUATIC PLANT HELP REMOVE SYNTHETIC SURFACTANT FROM WATER.

Lazareva E. V.; Ostroumov S.A. Accelerateddecrease in surfactant concentration in the water of a microcosm in thepresence of plants: Innovations for phytotechnology .- Doklady Biological Sciences, v.425, No.1; pp.180-182.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225149600_Accelerated_decrease_in_surfactant_concentration_in_the_water_of_a_microcosm_in_the_presence_of_plants_Innovations_for_phytotechnology
[88 views, 18 downloads by April 22, 2014; the paper was bookmarked, upvoted by Internet users];
http://www.scribd.com/doc/60795487/;

in Russian : www.scribd.com/doc/61655262/;

23. The first discovery of the negative effect of the synthetic chemical pollutant (surfactant) on filter- feeding of zooplankton, and negative effects of the chemical of water filtering;
NEW FACT: SYNTHETIC SURFACTANT SLOWS DOWN FEEDING RATE OF DAPHNIA

Vorozhun I. M., S. A. Ostroumov. On studying the hazards of pollution of the biosphere: effects of sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) on planktonic filter-feeders. - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2009, Vol. 425, pp. 133–134.

ISSN 0012-4966.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259579940_On-studying-the-hazards-of-pollution-of-the-biosphere-effects-of-sodium-dodecylsulfate-SDS-on-planktonic-filter-feeders

[81 views, 15 downloads from ResearchGate]
http://www.scribd.com/doc/45914806/;

scribd.com/doc/45914806; DOI: 10.1134/S0012496609020136; http://www.springerlink.com/content/p7754h672w814m30/; Full text: http://www.scribd.com/doc/45914806;

24. It is the first paper in which a discovery of a new type of environmental hazards from chemical pollutants was made: namely, the hazards of a decrease in vital function of healthy aquatic ecosystems which maintain the proper level of cleanness (purity) of water, and improve water quality;
NEW IDEA, FACT: POLLUTANT DESTROYS ECOREMEDIATION IN ECOSYSTEM.

Identification of a new type of ecological hazard of chemicals: inhibition of processes of ecological remediation. - Doklady Biological Sciences. 2002. 385: 377-379. In Eng.; ISSN 0012-4966.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259402820_Paper_published_titled_Identification_of_a_new_type_of_ecological_hazard_of_chemicals_inhibition_of_processes_of_ecological_remediation

[89 views, 20 downloads by April 15, 2014];
bookmarked by Researchgate users;

DOI 10.1023/A:1019929305267; http://scipeople.ru/users/2943391/; Full text: http://www.scribd.com/doc/45911150;

25. It is the first paper in which it was clearly proved that the synthetic chemical, when it pollutes water, produces a dangerous effect on both marine mussels and phytoplankton: it decreases water filtration rate by the mussels, and the normal control of abundance of phytoplankton by the marine mussels, the control which is associated with the filtration of water.

An Amphiphilic Substance Inhibits the Mollusk Capacity to Filter out Phytoplankton Cells from Water; - Biology Bulletin, 2001, v.28, No.1; pp.95-102. [explanation of terminology: Amphiphilic Substance = surfactant, surface-active substance];

www.springerlink.com/index/l665628020163255.pdf; 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 galbana was added to the vessel with the mussels, and their filtration activity was measured by counting the concentration of the algae cells in the experimental vessels. Algae concentration was measured every 30 min for an hour and a half. The inhibiting effect on the mollusk filtration rate (FR) was qualitatively described. After the first 30 min filtration at 4 mg/l initial SDS concentration, the cell density was 322% of the control. The inhibiting effect was observed later as well. Due to FR inhibition in the vessels with the above specified initial SDS concentration, the algae cell density was 6.4 and 14.7 times that of the control after 1 and 1.5 h, respectively. Thus, SAS SDS can decrease the natural capacity of aquatic ecosystems for self-purification and disturb other aspects of ecosystem functioning through inhibiting the filtration activity of mussels. The obtained data are discussed in the context of environment and hydrosphere protection from pollution.
PMID: 11236572; Full text free:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/215639438_An_amphiphilic_substance_inhibits_the_mollusk_capacity_to_fliter_phytoplankton_cells_from_water; [34 views, 9 downloads];

https://www.academia.edu/782718/

also see: www.springerlink.com/index/l665628020163255.pdf;

http://www.scribd.com/doc/63444377/ ;

26.
Prior to this paper, no consistent system of the criteria existed...

It is the first paper in which a new solution to the eternal and painful problem of missing and shortage of proper objective criteria for identification of and assessing environmental hazards of chemical pollutants;

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.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259579814_Criteria-of-Ecological-Hazards-Due-to-Anthropogenic-Effects-on-the-Biota-Searching-for-a-System

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49088234; http://sites.google.com/site/2000dbs371p204criteria/;

27. It is the first paper in which a new aspect and facet of the essence and identity of ecosystem was discovered and analyzed. In this paper, it was shown that ecosystem has attributes of a bioreactor;

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

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

28. A more detailed analysis of the discovery and innovation that was made in the paper above (An aquatic ecosystem: a large-scale diversified bioreactor with a water self-purification function. - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2000. 374: 514-516); a new aspect of the identity of ecosystem was discovered and analyzed: the paper showed that ecosystem has attributes of a bioreactor;

Ostroumov S.A. Aquatic ecosystem as a bioreactor: water purification and some other functions. - Riv Biol. 2004, 97(1):67-78.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200593682_Aquatic_ecosystem_as_a_bioreactor_water_purification_and_some_other_functions.---httpscipeople.comuploadsmaterials43894Rivista.Biologia97p39Aquatic..Bioreactor.RTF

http://www.scribd.com/doc/52656760/ ;

PMID: 15648211 [PubMed - indexed];

29. A first and unique paper which an international team of scientists of three countries formulated a short list of research priorities in ecology and environmental sciences for the current century;
useful to set priorities in research, in grant proposals:

Ostroumov S.A., Dodson S.I., Hamilton D., Peterson S.A., Wetzel R.G. Medium-term and long-term priorities in ecological studies. - Riv. Biol. [Rivista di Biologia] 2003, 96(2):327-332.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200594244_Medium-term_and_long-term_priorities_in_ecological_studies._httpscipeople.comuploadsmaterials43893RivistaBio96Priorities2.rtf

PMID: 14595906 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]; http://www.scribd.com/doc/48100827/3Rivista-Bio-96-Priorities-2; http://scipeople.com/uploads/materials/4389/3RivistaBio96Priorities2.rtf ; www.scribd.com/doc/57124875/; http://www.scribd.com/doc/52655707/ ; PMID: 14595906 [PubMed];
bookmarked, downloaded by ResearchGate users;

30.
Prior to this paper, no consistent system of the criteria existed...
A new set of criteria in order to answer the question was formulated in this paper: is a given chemical substance hazardous to environment or not? Ostroumov S.A. Anthropogenic effects on the biota: towards a new system of principles and criteria for analysis of ecological hazards.- Riv. Biol. (Rivista di Biologia) 2003, 96(1):159-169. Review.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/10669691_Anthropogenic_effects_on_the_biota_towards_a_new_system_of_principles_and_criteria_for_analysis_of_ecological_hazards

http://www.scribd.com/doc/52636721/; PMID: 12852181 [PubMed – indexed; http://www.scribd.com/doc/52636721/3-System-of-Criteria;

31. More new data on how an anionic surfactant (detergent) sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) decreases the removal of algal cells from aquatic medium by marine bivalve, mussel Mytilus edulis;

Ostroumov S.A. [An amphiphilic substance inhibits the mollusk capacity to filter phytoplankton cells from water]. - Izv Akad Nauk Ser Biol. 2001. (1):108-116. Russian. PMID: 11236572 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]; http://www.scribd.com/doc/63444377;

32. It is the first paper in which a synthesis of both authors new experimental data and international literature was made, which led to a new broad picture of the role of biological filtering in self-purification and self-bioremediation of aquatic ecosystems;

Ostroumov S.A. Biological filtering and ecological machinery for self-purification and bioremediation in aquatic ecosystems: towards a holistic view. - Riv Biol. 1998; 91(2):221-232. http://www.scribd.com/doc/42830557; http://www.citeulike.org/user/ATP/article/9750710;

PMID: 9857844; PubMed – indexed;

33. It is the first article in which the new experimental data of the author were analyzed to give new fresh insight into ecological mechanisms of eutrophication and abnormal increase in phytoplankton. Also, new insight in how ecosystem runs water self-purification.

A fundamentally new approach and methodology to study top-down control in ecosystems: the first introduction of what the author calls ‘inhibitory analysis’; the paper presented a new insight in understanding that a decrease in activity of filter-feeders are part of the causes and mechanisms of eutrophication and algal blooms. The paper shows how to identify and measure this new factor which stimulates those negative phenomena;

More comment, and about citation of this paper: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61179989;

Ostroumov S.A. Inhibitory analysis of top-down control: new keys to studying eutrophication, algal blooms, and water self-purification. – Hydrobiologia. 2002, vol. 469, p. 117-129; http://www.scribd.com/doc/52598579/; a well-cited article.

34. Innovative and multifaceted conceptualization of how almost all aquatic organisms (biological community) work together toward making water clear and clean; Ostroumov S.A. Polyfunctional role of biodiversity in processes leading to water purification: current conceptualizations and concluding remarks. - Hydrobiologia. 2002. V. 469 (1-3): 203-204. http://www.scribd.com/doc/52627327/2H469p203-Polyfunctional-role-w-Addendum ;

www.scribd.com/doc/52627327/; a well-cited article.

35. New facts on how detergents slow down the filtration of water by aquatic organisms (bivalve mussels, oysters and others);

Ostroumov S.A. Studying effects of some surfactants and detergents on filter-feeding bivalves // Hydrobiologia. 2003. Vol. 500. P.341-344 [including effects of surfactants TDTMA and SDS on oysters Crassostrea gigas]. Extended abstract and some info on citation of this paper: http://www.scribd.com/doc/63898669/;

Full text: http://www.springerlink.com/content/k05884h730t228w4/;

scribd.com/doc/63898669/; www.citeulike.org/user/ATP/article/9737871;

36. New facts on how all three main kinds of detergent chemicals slow down the filtration of water by marine organisms (bivalve mussels of Atlantic Ocean);

Ostroumov S.A., Widdows J. Inhibition of mussel suspension feeding by surfactants of three classes. - Hydrobiologia. 2006. Vol. 556, No.1. P. 381 – 386. http://www.scribd.com/doc/45958156/; scribd.com/doc/59544597/;

37. Unique data and analysis. A first book on environmental hazards of detergents. The book summarizes the author’s 20 year long studies of new environmental hazards from synthetic detergents, and innovative methods for and data on measuring environmental toxicity of chemicals, especially surfactants and detergents; phytotoxicity and toxicity to invertebrates that are filter-feeders, especially bivalve mollusks (molluscs).

Ostroumov S.A. Biological Effects of Surfactants. CRC Press. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, London, New York. 2006. 279 p. http://www.citeulike.org/user/ATP/article/9744280; http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1527248.Biolo_Eff_of_Surf; http://www.scribd.com/doc/46637373/;

The book is available in libraries of Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge Universities, and MIT, as well as Library of Congress. It is also available in other libraries of North America (libraries of the U.S.A., and Canada), Europe (national and university libraries of England, Germany; France; Switzerland; Netherlands; Sweden; Norway; Finland; Denmark; Belgium, Italy; Spain and other countries), Asia (Japan, China, Korea, and other countries), Australia, New Zealand; more detailed data on the availability in the libraries see: http://www.scribd.com/doc/77617474/;

38. New terminology was introduced in the paper: ecological tax; ecological repair of water quality;

Ostroumov S.A. Some aspects of water filtering activity of filter-feeders // Hydrobiologia. 2005. Vol. 542, No. 1. P. 275 – 286. www.scribd.com/doc/44105992/; www.scribd.com/doc/44105992/;

39. A detailed well-structured presentation of the author’s innovative and multifaceted conceptualization of how almost all aquatic organisms work together toward making water clear and clean;

Ostroumov S. A. On the Multifunctional Role of the Biota in the Self-Purification of Aquatic Ecosystems. - Russian Journal of Ecology, 2005. Vol. 36, No. 6, P. 414-420. http://www.scribd.com/doc/45572968; http://www.scribd.com/doc/49131150; www.scribd.com/doc/45572968; http://www.scribd.com/doc/49131150;

40. It is the first opinion paper which a multi-aspect innovative analysis of the ecological role of organisms that filter water was given. It discovered a set of functions and mechanisms which form and improve water quality.

Ostroumov S.A. Suspension-feeders as factors influencing water quality in aquatic ecosystems. In: The Comparative Roles of Suspension-Feeders in Ecosystems, R.F. Dame, S. Olenin (Eds), Springer, Dordrecht, 2004. pp. 147-164.
http://b23.ru/3twe; http://books.google.ru/books/about/The_comparative_roles_of_suspension_feed.html?id=A7k_xTx3VFYC&redir_esc=y;
http://www.springerlink.com/content/q871733861050601/;

41. A detailed well-structured presentation of the author’s innovative and multifaceted conceptualization of how almost all aquatic organisms work together toward making marine and estuarine water clear and clean.

It is the first time, a new concept and the term ‘biomachinery’ is formulated; in these publication, it is the first timethat the new term 'biomachinery' was introduced; It is the first time that the new concept and term ‘biomachinery’ was applied to ecosystem. It is the first time that water self- purification in aquatic ecosystems was considered as an example of functioning of biomachinery. More comment: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61779321/;

Ostroumov S.A. Biomachinery for maintaining water quality and natural water self-purification in marine and estuarine systems: elements of a qualitative theory // International Journal of Oceans and Oceanography. 2006. Volume 1, No.1. p.111-118. [ISSN 0973-2667]. www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/100141.pdf;

42. 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 ecosystems is analyzed. New aspects in the assessment of environmental hazard due to the impact of chemical pollutants, including surfactants and detergents, are established.

Ostroumov S.A. The effect of synthetic surfactants on the hydrobiological mechanisms of water self-purification. - Water Resources. 2004. Volume 31, Number 5, p. 502-510. http://www.scribd.com/doc/41169530/WR502; DOI 10.1023/B:WARE.0000041919.77628.8d. In Russian: http://www.scribd.com/doc/57648905/4VodnResursy-R; DOI 10.1023/B:WARE.0000041919.77628.8d.

43. 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 for maintaining water quality and sustainable development of water resources. Results of experimental studies of the effect exerted by the surfactant Triton X-100 and the OMO synthetic detergent on mollusks Unio tumidus.

Ostroumov S. A. On some issues of maintaining water quality and self-purification.- Water Resources, 2005. Volume 32, Number 3, p. 305-313. ISSN 0097-8078 (Print) 1608-344X (Online). http://www.scribd.com/doc/57511892/0305; DOI 10.1007/s11268-005-0039-7.

44. One of the published reviews of the book called it ‘Russian Silent Spring’. One of the first books that created the fundamentals of conservation biology. This work examines the problems arising from the deterioration of the environment and covers the issues of conservation and biodiversity protection at the molecular-genetic, the ontogenetic, the species-population and the ecosystem levels. The book offers suggestions concerning changes in practice in agriculture, industry, recreation etc. – in all sectors of society life and functioning.

Yablokov A.V., S.A.Ostroumov. Conservation of Living Nature and Resources: Problems, Trends, and Prospects. Berlin, New York et al. Springer. 1991. 272 p. Index of Authors: p. 249-251. Subject Index: p. 253-271. ISBN 3-540-52096-1; ISBN 0-387-52096-1. On the book:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200637729_ ;
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200637729_book_Conservation_of_Living_Nature_and_Resources_Problems_Trends_Prospects
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2014/03/book-entitled-conservation-of-living.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/59415099/;

MORE ABOUT THE PUBLICATIONS AND DISCOVERIES BY THE SAME AUTHOR:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/80074854/All-About-Scientific-Results-and-Activities-of-Dr-Sergei-a-Ostroumov;

http://b23.ru/k3th;

DISCOVERIES:

**EXAMPLES OF The key discoveries and innovations that were made by Dr. Sergei A. Ostroumov, and the scientific questions that were answered in his publications: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61828106/;

**Discoveries (the data are presented as a table): scribd.com/doc/59437439

** list of sites in various languages; list of one-line titles of INNOVATIONS, DISCOVERIES, in ecology, environmental sciences, biology. http://www.scribd.com/doc/83168032/

PUBLICATIONS:

**Annotated English bibliography: In the form of a list; Environmental Science, Ecology. Dr. S.Ostroumov. with comments: http://www.scribd.com/doc/79546542;

** Key annotated bibliography on the most important issues of ecology, environment (the innovations authored by Dr. S. Ostroumov) with short comments on what is new, in the form of a simple table, which is easy to read and understand and use: http://www.scribd.com/doc/74026302;

THE SHORTLIST OF SOME MOST CITED PUBLICATIONS

by Dr. S.A. Ostroumov in English, available online (including the websites with the full texts)

relevant to filter-feeders and other organisms involved in water filtration, water self-purification, improving water quality, and other fundamental and applied issues of ecology, environment and biospheric sciences

including his publications in the leading journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences entitled Reports of Academy of Sciences (Doklady Akademii nauk = Doklady Biological Sciences), and some other English publications in 2000-2009:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergei_Ostroumov/blog/409_most_cited_publications_by_Dr_SA_Ostroumov_in_English_available_online

1. book: Ostroumov S. A. Biological Effects of Surfactants. CRC Press. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, London, New York. 2006. 279 p. ISBN 0-8493-2526-9 [new facts and concepts on assessment of hazards from chemicals, new look on the factors important to water quality, to sustainability; new priorities in environmental safety]; the table of contents see at: http://www.chipsbooks.com/biosurfc.htm;

2. Ostroumov S. A. 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. http://sites.google.com/site/2000dbs372p286biotalabil/;

3. Ostroumov S. A., Kolesnikov M. P. Biocatalysis of Matter Transfer in a Microcosm Is Inhibited by a Contaminant: Effects of a Surfactant on Limnea stagnalis. - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2000, 373: 397–399. Translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2000, Vol. 373, No. 2, pp. 278–280. http://sites.google.com/site/2000dbs373p397biocatallstag/

4. 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. http://sites.google.com/site/2000dbs374p514bioreactor/

5. Ostroumov S.A. 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. http://sites.google.com/site/2000dbs371p204criteria/

6. Ostroumov S. A. An amphiphilic substance inhibits the mollusk capacity to filter out phytoplankton cells from water. - Biology Bulletin, 2001, Volume 28, Number 1, p. 95-102. ISSN 1062-3590 (Print) 1608-3059 (Online); DOI 10.1023/A:1026671024000; http://www.springerlink.com/content/l665628020163255/;

7. Ostroumov S. A. Inhibitory Analysis of Regulatory Interactions in Trophic Webs. -Doklady Biological Sciences, 2001, Vol. 377, pp. 139–141. Translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2000, Vol. 375, No. 6, pp. 847–849. [In the paper, the author developed a new approach to analyze the fundamental ecological issue, the interactions between organisms in ecosystems. He suggested using the methodology of inhibitory analysis to study interactions in trophic chains. Important situation is the top–down control of plankton by benthic filter-feeders. This control, as author’s experiments have shown, might be removed by chemical inhibitors (the latter may enter the ecosystem as pollutants)]. http://sites.google.com/site/2001dbs377p139inhibitory/; http://blog.researchgate.net/masterblog/299_Inhibitory_Analysis_A_new_method_for_analyzing_interactions_between_organisms_in_ecosystems;

8. Ostroumov SA. The synecological approach to the problem of eutrophication. - Dokl Biol Sci. (Doklady Biological Sciences). 2001; 381:559-562. http://scipeople.com/uploads/materials/4389/Danbio6_2001v381n5.E.eutrophication.pdf

9. Ostroumov SA. The hazard of a two-level synergism of synecological summation of anthropogenic effects. - Dokl Biol Sci. (Doklady Biological Sciences). 2001; 380:499-501.
[New facts and concepts. Discovery of a fundamentally new type of environmental hazards from chemical pollution]
http://sites.google.com/site/2001dbs380p499synerg/

10. Ostroumov SA. Responses of Unio tumidus to mixed chemical preparations and the hazard of synecological summation of anthropogenic effects. - Dokl Biol Sci (Doklady Biological Sciences). 2001; 380: 492-495. http://sites.google.com/site/2001dbs380p492unio/

11. Ostroumov SA, Kolesnikov MP. Pellets of some mollusks in the biogeochemical flows of C, N, P, Si, and Al. - Dokl Biol Sci (Doklady Biological Sciences). 2001; 379:378-381. http://sites.google.com/site/2001dbs379p378pellets/

12. Ostroumov SA. Imbalance of factors providing control of unicellular plankton populations exposed to anthropogenic impact. - Dokl Biol Sci (Doklady Biological Sciences). 2001; 379:341-343. http://sites.google.com/site/1dbs379p341imbalance/; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergei_Ostroumov/blog/321_Discovery_of_the_system_where_chemical_pollution_could_impair_the_regulation_and_balance_in_the_abundance_of_phytoplankton_threat_to_ecological_stability_

13. Ostroumov SA. Effect of amphiphilic chemicals on filter-feeding marine organisms. - Dokl Biol Sci (Doklady Biological Sciences). 2001; 378:248-250. For the first time, oysters were used as the test-organisms in bioassay of synthetic surfactants and detergents. The new data revealed a novel type of hazard to mariculture. New negative effects of surfactants and chemical mixtures on water filtering activity of Crassostrea gigas were discovered. http://sites.google.com/site/2001dbs378p248effammaroyst/

14. Ostroumov SA. Biodiversity protection and quality of water: the role of feedbacks in ecosystems. - Dokl Biol Sci (Doklady Biological Sciences). 2002; 382:18-21; [Innovative concepts that provide new arguments in biodiveristy conservation, water ecosystem protection, protection of aquatic environment ] http://sites.google.com/site/2dbs382p18biodivers/; http://www.citeulike.org/pdf/user/ATP/article/6113559/ostroumov_02_biodiversity.pdf;

15. Ostroumov S.A. New definitions of the concepts and terms ecosystem and biogeocenosis. - Doklady Biological Sciences 2002 (March), Volume 383, Numbers 1- 6, p. 141-143. Bibliogr. 15 refs. [ISSN 0012-4966 (Print) 1608-3105 (Online)]. https://www.researchgate.net/file.FileLoader.html?key=997c8c86899d5a6e24531054ad1bcd1e;

16. Ostroumov SA. A new type of effect of potentially hazardous substances: uncouplers of pelagial-benthal coupling. - Dokl Biol Sci (Doklady Biological Sciences). 2002; 383:127-130. https://www.researchgate.net/file.FileLoader.html?key=d988acb599e121964c48114374a87e8d; www.springerlink.com/index/28V23JBFADL1Y100.pdf; In the paper new facts are reported that shows man-made hazards to 3 aspects of functioning of the biosphere and ecosystems: (1) formation of water quality; (2) biogeochemical flows of C, N, P and other constituents of biomass; (3) formation of deposits of organic matter as bottom sediments. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergei_Ostroumov/blog/358_Three_new_key_hazards_to_the_functioning_of_the_biosphere;

17. Ostroumov S. A. Identification of a New Type of Ecological Hazard of Chemicals: Inhibition of Processes of Ecological Remediation. - Doklady Biological Sciences, Vol. 385, 2002 (November), pp. 377–379. [Translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk, Vol. 385, No. 4, 2002, pp. 571–573]. https://www.researchgate.net/file.FileLoader.html?key=8408a7cfaa984764b812ce79c77007f2;

18. Ostroumov SA. System of principles for conservation of the biogeocenotic function and the biodiversity of filter-feeders. - Dokl Biol Sci (Doklady Biological Sciences). 2002; 383:147-150. https://www.researchgate.net/file.FileLoader.html?key=888352078b275ef40a430eb5b4d7714c; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergei_Ostroumov/blog/359_How_to_establish_a_new_type_of_reserves_to_protect_aquatic_biodiversity_and_ecosystem_services;

19. Ostroumov S. A. Inhibitory analysis of top-down control: new keys to studying eutrophication, algal blooms, and water self-purification // Hydrobiologia. 2002. vol. 469. P.117-129. A new approach to prevent pollution, eutrophication, and algal blooms was identified and analyzed in this paper. The approach is based on efficient use of the natural mechanisms of self-regulation of ecosystem DOI 10.1023/A:1015559123646; http://www.moipros.ru/files/author_4_article_9.doc; www.springerlink.com/index/R9PTJEQ5FK8VLA6M.pdf; http://scipeople.com/uploads/materials/4389/2Hydrobiologia469p117w%20Addendum.DOC;

20. Ostroumov S.A. Polyfunctional role of biodiversity in processes leading to water purification: current conceptualizations and concluding remarks. - Hydrobiologia, 2002 (February), 469: 203-204. DOI 10.1007/s10750-004-1875-1; http://scipeople.com/uploads/materials/4389/2H469p203.Polyfunctional.role.w.Addendum.rtf

21. Ostroumov S. A., Walz N., Rusche R. Effect of a cationic amphiphilic compound on rotifers. - Doklady Biological Sciences. 2003 (May). Vol. 390. 252-255 [ISSN 0012-4966 (Print) 1608-3105 (Online)]. https://www.researchgate.net/file.FileLoader.html?key=def6575c794b111fcc31275e853c2b15;

22. Ostroumov S.A. Anthropogenic effects on the biota: towards a new system of principles and criteria for analysis of ecological hazards. - Rivista di Biologia/Biology Forum. 2003. 96: 159-170. Review. PMID: 12852181 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] http://sites.google.com/site/ostroumovsergei/publications-1/rivista2003criteria; http://scipeople.com/uploads/materials/4389/3RB96p159Anth..Criteria.doc; www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12852181;

23. Ostroumov S.A., Dodson S., Hamilton D., Peterson S., Wetzel R.G. Medium-term and long-term priorities in ecological studies // Rivista di Biologia / Biology Forum. 2003 (May). 96: 327-332. Abstracts in Eng. and Italian (p. 332). Bibliogr. 20 ref. http://scipeople.com/uploads/materials/4389/3RivistaBio96Priorities2.rtf; www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14595906 ; PMID: 14595906 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Research priorities in ecology and environmental sciences for the future are formulated. The priorities for both fundamental and applied ecology are proposed. The list of priorities includes 50 items. The priorities are relevant to terrestrial, aquatic, and general ecology. The list of priorities is helpful when grant proposals are being prepared, evaluated, and selected for funding.

24. Ostroumov S. A. On the biotic self-purification of aquatic ecosystems: elements of the theory. - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2004, Vol. 396, Numbers 1-6, p. 206-211. https://www.researchgate.net/file.FileLoader.html?key=60f338228d6f3c5114d223ab81e15d3b; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergei_Ostroumov/blog/348_Useful_theory_of_natural_mechanisms_of_improving_water_quality;

25. Aquatic ecosystem as a bioreactor: water purification and some other functions. Rivista di Biologia / Biology Forum, 2004, 97: 39-50. Abstracts in Eng. and Italian. [A fundamental concept is proposed of aquatic ecosystem as a bioreactor that carries out the function of water purification in natural water bodies and streams. The ecosystem as a bioreactor has the following characteristic attributes: (1) it is a large-scale (large-volume) bioreactor; (2) it is a diversified (in terms of the number of taxa and the scope of functional activities) bioreactor; (3) it possesses a broad range of biocatalytic (chemical-transforming and degrading) capabilities. New experimental data on xenobiotics - induced inhibition of the water filtration performed by the molluscs Unio tumidus, U. pictorum, M. galloprovincialis and inhibition of feeding by Limnaea stagnalis emphasized the potential ecological hazard from sublethal concentrations of pollutants (including those exemplified by synthetic surfactants and detergents). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15648211; PMID: 15648211 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]; http://scipeople.com/uploads/materials/4389/4Rivista.Biologia97p39Aquatic..Bioreactor.RTF; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergei_Ostroumov/blog/407_New_concept_of_ecosystem; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergei_Ostroumov/blog/410_New_Concept_of_Ecosystem;

26. Ostroumov S. A. Some aspects of water filtering activity of filter-feeders // Hydrobiologia, 2005. Vol. 542, No. 1. P. 275 – 286. http://scipeople.com/uploads/materials/4389/5Hydr542p275water.filt.doc

27. Ostroumov S. A., Widdows J. Inhibition of mussel suspension feeding by surfactants of three classes. // Hydrobiologia. 2006. Vol. 556, No. 1. Pages: 381 – 386. 3 Tables. Bibliogr. 37 refs. [For the first time the negative effects of the three surfactants on the filtration rates by marine mussels were presented in one paper. The xenobiotics tested represented anionic, cationic and non-ionic surfactants (tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide, TDTMA, a representative of a class of cationic surfactants; sodium dodecyl sulphate, SDS, a representative of anionic alkyl sulfates; and Triton X-100, a representative of non-ionic hydroxyethylated alkyl phenols). Negative effects of SDS, TDTMA, and Triton X-100 on the filtration activity of marine mussels M. edulis and M. edulis / M. galloprovincialis were discovered. All three surfactants inhibited the clearance rates. This is the first publication of the negative effects of a cationic surfactant on Atlantic mussels Mytilus. The significance of the results for the ecology of marine ecosystems is discussed]. DOI 10.1007/s10750-005-1200-7; http://sites.google.com/site/ostroumovsergei/publications-1/hydrobiologia2006ostwidd; http://sites.google.com/site/3surfactantsfiltrationmytilus/; http://scipeople.ru/uploads/materials/4389/_Hydrobiologia2006%20vol%20556%20No.1%20pages381-386.pdf; http://www.springerlink.com/content/7166067538534421/

28. Ostroumov S. A. Basics of the molecular-ecological mechanism of water quality formation and water self-purification. - Contemporary Problems of Ecology, 2008 (Feb), Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 147-152. [ISSN 1995-4255(Print) 1995-4263 (Online); DOI 10.1134/S1995425508010177; https://www.researchgate.net/file.FileLoader.html?key=e533be77c87735c6dcc5cfdb9db96cec; http://scipeople.com/uploads/materials/4389/CPEC2008BasicsMolEcol.Mech.WaterQuali(0147.pdf;

29. Ostroumov S. A. Biotic self-purification of aquatic ecosystems: from the theory to ecotechnologies. - Ecologica, 2007. vol. 15 (50), p.15-23. (ISSN 0354-3285). Some basic elements of a new theory for the biological mechanism for water self-purification are presented. Hydrobionts (aquatic organisms) are actively involved in various processes leading to water purification. Not only microorganisms (bacteria, cyanobacteria and fungi), but also algae, plants, invertebrates, and other groups of organisms are involved, which is discussed and analyzed in the paper. Results of the author's experiments that study the effects of various pollutants on aquatic organisms (freshwater and marine bivalves) are given. The theory is an innovative basis for developing ecological technologies to clean water and to upgrade its quality by using organisms and ecosystems [http://scindeks.nb.rs/article.aspx?artid=0354-32850750015O].

30. Ostroumov S.A., Shestakova T.V. Decreasing the measurable concentrations of Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb in the water of the experimental systems containing Ceratophyllum demersum: The phytoremediation potential // Doklady Biological Sciences 2009, Vol. 428, No. 1, p. 444-447. http://sites.google.com/site/9dbs444/; https://www.researchgate.net/file.FileLoader.html?key=8fd8998627b86102db72c9b237c25054;
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259579700_Paper_published_titled_Decreasing_the_Measurable_Concentrations_of_Cu_Zn_Cd_and_Pb_in_the_Water_of_the_Experimental_Systems_Containing_Ceratophyllum_demersum_The_Phytoremediation_Potential?ev=srch_pub&_sg=xi6Ap%2FFB32KEZAVmSoJ1A7Ix8%2FEalsU6TS2j72jCzekfFFBvMQOuX7oUf8EsxLS6_ZDrMYS8ev2y6kNzbmZ3qcvgHaUfGJAp30lwvwQc61bm5APz26zbRtMP11Jh8pSm5

31. Ostroumov S.A. Towards the general theory of ecosystem-depended control of water quality. - Ecologica, 2009, vol. 16, No. 54, p. 25-32. (Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991 Russia). Abstract: A new set of ecological generalizations formulated in this paper represent, in a systematized form, the basic elements of the qualitative theory of biotic control of water quality and water self-puriﬁcation in freshwater and marine ecosystems. The theory contributes to a better understanding of the issues of stability and regulation in the biosphere. The theory is supported by the results of the author’s experimental studies of the effects exerted by surfactants, detergents and other pollutants on aquatic organisms. http://sites.google.com/site/9enecologica16p25theory/

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