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31.5.2015. This Moscow University article was cited: "Biological filtering and ecological machinery for self-purification and ..." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13429633_Biological_filtering; S. A. Ostroumov. Biological filtering and ecological machinery for self-purification and bioremediation in aquatic ecosystems: towards a holistic view. Rivista di Biologia. 1998. 91(2): 221-232.

Dreissena paper (Germany) cited Moscow.
In the German article on Dreissena polymorpha, research results at Moscow State University (authored by Dr. Sergei A. Ostroumov, Fulbright Awardee) were cited.
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Water Science & Technology Vol 71 No 9 pp 1354–1360 © IWA Publishing 2015;
doi:10.2166/wst.2015.103

Filtration effects of zebra mussels on pathogens and total bacterial burden in the Odra Lagoon (South Baltic)

G. Daeschlein, C. Fenske, S. Scholz, S. Dahlke, M. Jünger and A. Kramer

Department of Dermatology, University Medicine Greifswald, Ferdinand-Sauerbruchstrasse, 17475 Greifswald, Germany E-mail: georg.daeschlein@uni-greifswald.de
Zoological Institute and Museum, University of Greifswald, Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Str. 11-12, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
Biological Station of Hiddensee, University of Greifswald, Biologenweg 15, 18565 Kloster/Insel Hiddensee, Germany
Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Walther-Rathenau-Strasse 49A, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
*Equal contribution

ABSTRACT
As a result of their mode of filter feeding, zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha Pall.) have been observed to purify natural water bodies and in vitro. Therefore, the possibility of using zebra mussels for water purification was investigated in a slightly brackish water body of a large lagoon. In this study, water samples were taken above, near and at distance from zebra mussel beds (MB) in the Odra Lagoon in North East Germany. Near typical bacterial species likeAeromonas spp. pathogenic bacteria with potential relation to hospital wastewater pollution (Burkholderia cepacia, Staphylococcus aureus, Weeksella spp.) were detected. There were no correlations found between either total bacteria or pathogens and distance to MB and no antimicrobial effect of the mussels could be deduced. For bioremediation in larger water bodies like lagoons, natural zebra MB do not seem to play a major antimicrobial role and the effect of artificial mussel grids especially against hospital pathogens should be investigated.
Keywords: decontamination efficacy; Dreissena polymorpha; filtration; nature restoration; water pollution
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31.5.2015.
This Moscow University article was cited:
 "Biological filtering and ecological machinery for self-purification and ..."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13429633_Biological_filtering;
S. A. Ostroumov.
Biological filtering and ecological machinery for self-purification and bioremediation in aquatic ecosystems: towards a holistic view. Rivista di Biologia. 1998. 91(2): 221-232.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13429633_Biological
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2015/05/dreissena-paper-germany-cited-moscow.html

Abstract:According to one of the approaches to the definition of criteria for the phenomenon of life, the key attribute is the ability of the system for some self-regulating and self-supporting. Part of such holistic functions of aquatic ecosystems as self-regulating and self-supporting is their cleaning the water via a multitude of various mechanisms. The goal of this paper is to present some fundamental elements of the theory of ecosystem self-purification which emphasizes the importance of the four functional biological filters that are instrumental in purification and upgrading the quality of water in aquatic ecosystems. These functional filters are: (1) direct water filtering by aquatic organisms that are filter-feeders; (2) the filter (represented mainly by communities of aquatic plants/periphyton) which prevents input of pollutants and biogenic elements (N, P) from land into water bodies; (3) the filter (represented by benthic organisms) which prevents re-entry of pollutants and biogenic elements from the bottom sediments into the water; (4) the filter (represented by microorganisms attached to particles which are suspended in the water) that provides microbiological treatment of water column. New experimental data by the author reveal the role of man-made effects on the ecological machinery which purifies water. The analysis and discussion lead to the holistic theory of the natural process of bioremediation of aquatic ecosystems.

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