revised: REVISITED: CONCEPT OF ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION. The current concept of ecosystem structure is mainly the structure of the trophic web or the trophic pyramid. A series of innovative papers developed a new concept of ecosystem structure and function. The new concept: ecosystem, especially aquatic ecosystem is an analog of bioreactor of biomachinery. This aquatic bioreactor or biomachinery fulfills several functions. One of these vital functions is water self-purification. The theory of water self-purification was formulated. aquatic, bioreactor, biomachinery,water self-purification,

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REVISITED: CONCEPT OF ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION.
The current concept of ecosystem structure is mainly the structure of the trophic web or the trophic pyramid. A series of innovative papers developed a new concept of ecosystem structure and function. The new concept: ecosystem, especially aquatic ecosystem is an analog of bioreactor of biomachinery. 
http://5bio5.blogspot.ru/2013/03/revisited-concept-of-ecosystem.html

This aquatic  bioreactor or biomachinery fulfills several functions. One of these vital functions is water self-purification. The theory of water self-purification was formulated in the series of papers:
**http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2013/03/revisited-concept-of-ecosystem.html

Blog posts on the publications on the theory of water self-purification formulated by the scientist at Moscow State University, Fulbright Award winner:
 
Innovative theory of ecological mechanisms of self-purification of water in freshwater and marine ecosystems. 
http://alsuyus.blogspot.com/2012/09/biocontrol-of-water-quality.html

Innovative and multifaceted conceptualization of how almost all aquatic organisms function together toward making water clear and clean.
http://alsuyus.blogspot.com/2012/09/on-multifunctional-role-of-biota-in.html

Detailed analysis of the discovery and innovation: a new aspect of the functioning of ecosystem.
A short list of the most important physical, chemical, and biological processes of water self-purification.

New aspects of water quality formation and water quality control in natural freshwater and marine ecosystems; new facts on negative effects of chemical pollutants (e.g., synthetic surfactants and detergents) on aquatic organisms, especially filter-feeders.
http://alsuyus.blogspot.com/2012/10/basics-of-molecular-ecological.html

 Polyfunctional Role of Biodiversity in Processes Leading To Water Purification: Current Conceptualizations and Concluding Remarks, Hydrobiologia, 2002, vol. 469, pp. 203–204.CrossRef

(2004) On the biotic self-purification of aquatic ecosystems: elements of the theory. Doklady Biological Sciences 396: pp. 206-211 CrossRef

2005a. On some issues of maintaining water quality and self-purification. Water Resources, 32(3), 305–313 CrossRef

2005b. On the multifunctional role of the biota in the self-purification of aquatic ecosystems. Russian Journal of Ecology, 36(6): 414–420 CrossRef

2010. Biocontrol of Water Quality: Multifunctional Role of Biota in Water Self-Purification. Russian Journal of General Chemistry, 80(13): 2754–2761. CrossRef

RELEVANT PAPERS:
First publication to report both inhibitory and stimulation effects of a synthetic surfactant on two unique strains of the ocean species of cyanobacteria Synechococcus from the collection of WHOI (U.S.A.). These data demonstrated a new hazard of an imbalance of species composition of marine phytoplankton under the effect of pollution by synthetic chemical pollutants.
http://alsuyus.blogspot.ru/2013/02/inhibitory-and-stimulation-effects-of.html

First publication to report a hazardous effect of a synthetic non-ionic surfactant (exemplified by Triton X-100) on diatom algae, a marine species, Thalassiosira pseudonana

http://alsuyus.blogspot.ru/2013/01/hazardous-effect-of-synthetic-non-ionic.html

New broad picture of the fundamental role of biological filtering in self-purification (and self-bioremediation, self-organization, as well as stability) of aquatic ecosystems.
http://alsuyus.blogspot.ru/2013/01/fundamental-role-of-biological.html

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.
http://alsuyus.blogspot.ru/2013/01/new-ideas-on-criteria-for.html

First paper in which it was clearly proved that the synthetic chemical (exemplified by the surfactant sodium dodecylsulfate, SDS), when it pollutes water, produces dangerous effects on both marine mussels (Mytilus edulis) and phytoplankton

http://alsuyus.blogspot.ru/2012/12/new-facts-on-chemical-of-important.html

New fresh insight into ecological mechanisms of eutrophication and abnormal increase in phytoplankton and how ecosystem runs water self-purification.

New concepts and terminology in ecology, and science of limnology and biological oceanography: ecological tax; ecological repair of water quality. Some aspects of water filtering activity of filter-feeders.

Inhibition of mussel suspension feeding by surfactants of three classes. Marine mussels Mytilus, Atlantic Ocean; ecotoxicology of cationic, anionic, and non-ionogenic detergents

http://alsuyus.blogspot.com/2012/10/inhibition-of-mussel-suspension-feeding.html

First paper to report concentrations of a number of rare earth elements (Ce, Nd, U, Hf, Cs, Au) in biological detritus in an aquatic system.
http://alsuyus.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-role-of-biodetritus-in-accumulation.html

Modern comments on innovative scientific terms (ecological chemomediators, ecological chemoregulators).

New facts on how detergents slow down the filtration of water by aquatic organisms; new inhibitory effects of surfactants TDTMA and SDS on water filtering activity of the marine mollusks oysters Crassostrea gigas.
http://alsuyus.blogspot.ru/2012/11/new-facts-on-hazards-of-synthetic.html

First and unique paper in which an international team of experts, scientists of 3 countries formulated a short list of research priorities in ecology and environmental sciences. 

http://alsuyus.blogspot.ru/2012/11/medium-term-and-long-term-priorities-in.html

Fundamentally new solution to the problem of selecting criteria for identification and assessing environmental hazards of chemical pollutants, toxicants.
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Water quality, aquatic ecology Top papers, with CrossRef, links, webpages, online, Springer, top, peer-reviewed, 

Polyfunctional Role of Biodiversity in Processes Leading To Water Purification: Current Conceptualizations and Concluding Remarks, Hydrobiologia, 2002, vol. 469, pp. 203–204.CrossRef

(2004) On the biotic self-purification of aquatic ecosystems: elements of the theory. Doklady Biological Sciences 396: pp. 206-211 CrossRef

2005a. On some issues of maintaining water quality and self-purification. Water Resources, 32(3), 305–313 CrossRef

2005b. On the multifunctional role of the biota in the self-purification of aquatic ecosystems. Russian Journal of Ecology, 36(6): 414–420 CrossRef

2010. Biocontrol of Water Quality: Multifunctional Role of Biota in Water Self-Purification. Russian Journal of General Chemistry, 80(13): 2754–2761. CrossRef
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2001. Effects of amphiphilic chemicals on marine organisms filter-feeders (Vozdeistvie amfifil’nykh veshchestv na morskikh gidrobiontov-filtratorov). Doklady Biological Sciences (Doklady Akademii Nauk). 378: 283–285.CrossRef



2002. Inhibitory analysis of top-down control: new keys to studying eutrophication, algal blooms, and water self-purification. Hydrobiologia. 469: 117–129.CrossRef



Inhibitory Analysis of Top-Down Control: New Keys To Studying Eutrophication, Algal Blooms, and Water Self-Purification, Hydrobiologia, 2002, vol. 469, pp. 117–129.CrossRef


Some Aspects of Water Filtering Activity of Filter-Feeders,  Hydrobiologia, 2005, vol. 542, pp. 275–286. CrossRef

(2003) Studying effects of some surfactants and detergents on filter-feeding bivalves. Hydrobiologia, 500: pp. 341-344 CrossRef



Solomonova, E.A. and Ostroumov, S.A., Moscow Univ. Biol. Sci. Bull., 2007, vol. 62, no. 4, p. 176.CrossRef

Short list, top useful posts, links, environmental science, ecology, water, explanation of novelty:
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2014/05/short-list-top-useful-posts-links.html

innovation: Ecosystem health and water pollution control: studying water self-purification. Explanation of novelty:
Some recent posts:
May 11-15, posts, environmental science,
ecology, water, with links, web-pages, online, downloads, citation, voted up, bookmarked, self-purification, explanation of use of the results:

Lots of articles that were downloaded recently in U.S., U.K., Germany, Japan, China, and other countries...:

List of 60+ top articles: ecology, biology, environment, water quality improvement; this post is among 5 most viewed online posts during 2010-2014:
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/08/63-steps-to-new-ecology-updated-to-66.html

Why is it vital?  Answering urgent environmental challenges. Explanation of novelty in some relevant innovative publications, 
Tags: water pollution,synthetic surfactants, detergents, Biological Effects of Surfactants,ecology, environmental science,


Who cited. Citation of the publications  (Moscow State Univ.), Fulbright Award winner. In: Germany, Italy, Spain, Finland, United Kingdom, Portugal, U.S.A., Russian Federation, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Greece, Israel, New Zealand, South Korea, Hungary, Poland, Mexico, Turkey, Philippines, Chile, Uruguay,
Key words:  Citation, ecology, environmental, science, protection, toxicity, water, safety, sustainability, water self-purification, ecotoxicology, hazard assessment, bioassay, detergents, surfactants, filter-feeders, bivalves, mollusca, plant seedlings, phytoremediation, conservation, biology, biomembranes, membranes, bioenergetics:

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posts, environmental science,
ecology, water, with links, web-pages, online, downloads, citation, voted up, bookmarked, self-purification, explanation

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