Useful paper: Functions of Living Substances in the Biosphere. in: HERALD OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.
Very useful paper. It is worth citing.
There are many innovations in this article, e.g.: A new modernized definition of the term 'pheromones', p.232-233; comments on the new concepts that were proposed by the author (Dr. Sergei A. Ostroumov, Moscow State University), namely ecological chemomediators (p.232), ecological chemoregulators (p.232), ecological chemoeffectors (p.234).
The paper was published in one of the best academic peer-reviewed journals of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with a highly authoritative editorial board. The Editor-in-Chief of the journal is the President of Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to World Catalog, this paper
[Ostroumov S.A. The Functions of Living Substances in the Biosphere. - HERALD OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 2003, 73 (2): 164-169] is available in 192 U.S. libraries; Germany. Available in 2 libraries; Spain; 4 Spanish libraries; France; 1 French library; Thailand; 1 Thai library; Australia; 7 Australian libraries; and in other libraries.
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This paper is recommended to all who are interested in modern innovations in ecology and sciences on the biosphere.
Key words: biogeochemistry, biosphere, ecological, chemoeffectors, ecological chemomediators, ecological chemoregulators, living matter, new, modernized, definition, pheromone, terminology, V.I.Vernadsky, concepts, bioscience
