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18 KEY INNOVATIONS, DISCOVERIES: ecology, environmental sciences, biology; with bibliography, selected.

updated 5.09.2015.

18 KEY INNOVATIONS, DISCOVERIES: ecology, environmental sciences, biology; with bibliography, selected. Publications, discoveries in some key areas of environmental and life sciences. Improving water quality, sustainability, environment safety.


18  KEY INNOVATIONS, DISCOVERIES, in ecology, environmental sciences, biology. This is a list of some publications authored by a Fulbright Award winner (Moscow University) and coauthors that contain new discoveries in some key areas of environmental and life sciences. Improving water quality, sustainability, environment safety. Comments.


Some files use key words in languages:  English, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, and others. 
These research results (see details, and bibliography in this post) helped in answering important questions that are listed in this online publication:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259501053_43-page_list_17_KEY_DISCOVERIESINNOVATIONS

http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2015/09/18-key-innovations-discoveries-ecology.html


http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2013/01/18-key-innovations-discoveries-in.html

See the  bibliography of the key articles that contain these  results:
40 top publications with links, environmental, science, toxicology, safety, water, water quality, aquatic, ecotoxicology, pollution control, self-purification, sustainability,
Many of these full texts available online, many of them free (at ResearchGate, Scribd):
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2015/07/20-publications-environmental-science.html

31 Top Springer Publications selected bibliography: #life_science #ecology #environmental_science  Articles. http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/11/31-publications-life-science-ecology.html
CONTENT:
Part 1. List of SITES with comments IN SOME WORLD LANGUAGES (English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, other);
Part 2. LIST OF THE DISCOVERIES, INNOVATIONS, FORMULATED IN ONE-LINE SENTENCES;
Part 3. LIST OF THE DISCOVERIES WITH REFERENCES TO THE PUBLICATIONS, sites, and comments;
Part 4. Additional information: USEFUL SITES;

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Part 1. SITES with comments IN SOME WORLD LANGUAGES:
In Chinese (trad.):  http://www.scribd.com/doc/82374003/
In Indonesian:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/82369704/In-Indonesian;
In Spanish: http://www.scribd.com/doc/82469956/In-Spanish;

Part 2. THE LIST OF THE DISCOVERIES, INNOVATIONS, FORMULATED IN ONE LINE:
1. Innovative conceptualization: how ecosystems improve water quality.
2. Fundamentally new facts: hazardous biological and toxic effects of detergents.
3. Inhibitory analysis: A new method to explore top-down control in ecosystems.
4. A contribution to solution for the problem of criteria for environmental hazards.
5. A new contribution to solution of the problem of eutrophication.
6. New measurements on frontiers of biogeochemistry and chemical ecology: a quantitative estimate: the role of pellets of mollusks.
7. New facts, discovery: pollutants inhibit: fluxes (flows, transfers) of chemical elements.
8. Biomachinery. A new fundamental concept. New scientific term, proposed by a researcher at Moscow University.
9. Modernized terminology. A new improved ecosystem definition. What is ‘ecosystem’?
10. New key facts useful to scientific basis of technology. New phytotechnology: water treatment.
11. A new step. How to solve the problem. Stability of the biosphere.
12. A new component of the mechanism of regulation. Self-organization in the biosphere.
13. New serious hazards: low-level (sublethal) chemical pollution.
14. A new environmental hazard of pollution: damage to links between parts of ecosystems.
15. Ecology: A new mechanism of how living organisms change the environment.
16. New fundamental concepts, terminology. Two-level synergism: man-made effects;
17. A new anthropogenic factor (in addition to nutrients): initiation, stimulation of algal blooms.
18. New short list. The most urgent topics: environmental research in 21st century.

http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2013/01/18-key-innovations-discoveries-in.html

Part 3. THE LIST OF THE DISCOVERIES WITH REFERENCES TO THE PUBLICATIONS, sites, and comments: 
1.
Innovative conceptualization of how ecosystems improve water quality (ecosystem-dependent water self-purification):  http://www.scribd.com/doc/60659939/; Key paper, Full text free:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200567576_On_the_biotic_self-purification_of_aquatic ; [Number of reads on Internet: About 1.4K READS, September, 2015];
Other Key publications:
[Aquatic ecosystem as a bioreactor. – RIVISTA DI BIOLOGIA-BIOLOGY FORUM,  Volume: 97,   Issue: 1,   Pages: 67-78,   2004]:  full text free: http://www.scribd.com/doc/52656760/
Application: better water resources management, water sustainability, protection of water quality;
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2.
The concept of the shortlist of the most dangerous environmental pollutants was changed as a result of:
Discovery of fundamentally new facts on hazardous biological and toxic effects of detergents (surfactants, tensides, surface-active agents). These facts were presented and analyzed in the book: 
Key publication: http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9780849325267;
Application: preventing most risky forms of chemical pollution, protection of water quality;
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3.
Inhibitory analysis: A new method to explore top-down control in ecosystems: eutrophication, algal bloom, water self-purification. New facts about the organisms which are filter-feeders (suspension feeders). These facts gave a quantitative estimate of the role of filter-feeders in ecosystem: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61179989/3-Legendary-discoveries-top-Down-Control-Inhibitory-analysis;
Key publications: 

Inhibitory analysis of top-down control: New keys to studying ...

www.researchgate.net/.../200587396_Inhibitory_analysis_of_top-down_co..

Inhibitory Analysis of Regulatory Interactions in Trophic Webs

www.researchgate.net/.../216167167_Inhibitory_Analysis_of_Regulatory_I...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/216167167
4.
An innovative contribution to solution to the problem of criteria for environmental hazards of chemicals (the new system of criteria to evaluate negative anthropogenic effects  of chemicals on organisms): http://www.scribd.com/doc/60891549/;
Key publications: 

Criteria of ecological hazards due to anthropogenic effects ...

www.researchgate.net/.../215905990_Criteria_of_ecological_hazards_due_...


Anthropogenic effects on the biota: towards a new system of ...

www.researchgate.net/.../200581960_Anthropogenic_effects_on_the_biota...


http://sites.google.com/site/2000dbs371p204criteria/; http://www.scribd.com/doc/49088234;
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/09/ostroumov-sa-anthropogenic-effects-on.html
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5.
Text of the key publication:

in English:

The synecological approach to the problem of eutrophication.

www.researchgate.net/.../10614405_The_synecological_approach_to_the_...

Application: preventing eutrophication.
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New measurements that gave a quantitative estimate of the role of pellets of mollusks in fluxes of chemical elements. [The pellets are small pieces, aggregates of organic matter which are excreted by invertebrate animals. The pellets are excreted  by the animals as a result of  filtering the suspended organic matter and plankton out from water] http://www.scribd.com/doc/61247059/; Text of the key publication: www.scribd.com/doc/49065604; http://www.scribd.com/doc/45911730;  
Application: preventing or minimizing emissions of greenhouse gases, a contribution to the scientific basis for technologies for climate protection.
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7.
New facts, Discovery: Pollutants Inhibit Fluxes of Chemical Elements driven by aquatic organisms in aquatic ecosystems: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61251644/; Text of the key publication: www.scribd.com/doc/49065530/;
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Discovery of biomachinery ( a new scientific term proposed by Dr. S.A. Ostroumov, Moscow University). Example: biomachinery of water self-purification. This biomachinery improves water quality in aquatic (freshwater and marine) ecosystems:
Texts of the key publications: http://www.scribd.com/doc/44105992/;
Application: protection of water quality, better water resources management, water sustainability.
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A new improved and modernized definition of the term ‘ecosystem’:   http://www.scribd.com/doc/62076114/;
Application: improving environmental education.
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10.
Finding new key facts that contribute to a scientific basis for a new phytotechnology of water treatment. Example: the biological  species of  aquatic vegetation, the aquatic plant  ( Ceratophyllum demersum, commonly known as hornwort, rigid hornwort, coontail, or coon's tail,) removes heavy metals from water. For instance,  lead, cadmium and 2 other heavy metals were simultaneously removed from water: http://www.scribd.com/doc/62146380/;
A series of new facts on the role of aquatic vegetation.
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11.
A contribution to solution to the enigma of stability of the biosphere (the enigma of the balance in ecology, the sustainability of the natural environment): http://www.scribd.com/doc/62333244/;
Application: preventing global change; contribution to the scientific basis for climate protection technologies;
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12.
Discovery of a new component of the mechanism of  regulation and self-organization in the biosphere. A contribution to understanding the chemical regulation in the biosphere. New fundamental concepts and terminology: Ecological chemomediators, ecological chemoregulators:
See:  On the Concepts of Biochemical Ecology and Hydrobiology: Ecological Chemomediators. – Contemporary Problems of Ecology, 2008, Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 238–244.  http://scipeople.com/publication/67236/; http://www.scribd.com/doc/41634664;
Application of this discovery: This discovery and associated innovative analysis and conceptualization became a basis for a book: S.A. O., Introduction to Biochemical Ecology (Moscow University Press).

On the book ‘Introduction to Biochemical Ecology’ (Moscow University Press, Moscow, 1986, 176 p.), in Russian.

This book became a basis of a new lecture course. The title of the course was the same as the title of the book: Biochemical Ecology. This course contributed to modernization of university education in Russia, and in 8 universities in Poland, as well as in universities of some other countries: http://www.scribd.com/doc/53784108/
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13.
Discovery of new serious hazards from low-level (sublethal) chemical pollution.
Discovery of pollutants that inhibited the of activity organisms which are filter-feeders. As a result, a discovery of pollutants which decrease the efficiency of self-purification of water.
See  relevant information in some of the publications that were mentioned above here: Item 8: New Discovery: BIOMACHINERY. Example: biomachinery of improving water quality (self-purification) in aquatic (freshwater and marine) ecosystems: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61779321/; Item 1: Innovative conceptualization of how ecosystems improve water quality (water self-purification)  http://www.scribd.com/doc/60659939/; Item 2:  New facts on hazardous biological and toxic effects of surfactants and detergents: http://www.scribd.com/doc/60757545/ ;
Application: improving environmental law, environmental regulation; protection of water quality; pollution control;
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14.
Discovery of a new environmental hazard from environmental pollution. Discovery of a man-made chemical can break an important link between components of ecosystems.
See the publication: 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.  http://www.scribd.com/doc/45913695/A-new-Type-of-Effect-2DBS-fulltext;
http://sites.google.com/site/ostroumovsergei/publications-1/new-type-of-action-of-potentially-hazardous-chemicals-uncouplers-of-pelagial-benthal-coupling-novyi-tip-deistviya-potentzialno-opasnykh-veshchestv-razobshchiteli-pelagialno-bentalnogo-sopryazheniya–dan-2002-v-383-no-1-p138-141;
http://sites.google.com/site/ostroumovsergei/publications-1/a-new-type-of-effect-of-potentially-hazardous-substances-uncouplers-of-pelagialbenthal-coupling—doklady-biological-sciences-2002-vol-383-1-6;
scipeople.ru/group/341/topic/1395/;
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12053562; www.springerlink.com/index/28v23jbfadl1y100.pdf;
Application: pollution control; water sustainability; natural resources management;
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15.
Discovery of a new mechanism of how living organisms change the environment, how they adjust or condition some important chemical  parameters of the environment. Discovery of a new organism-dependent mechanism of a decrease in environmental toxicity of chemicals and chemical elements.
Dr. S. A. O. 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/;
[In Russian: Остроумов С.А. Некоторые вопросы  химико-биотических взаимодействий и новое в учении о биосфере / серия: Ecological Studies, Hazards, Solutions. Volume 17. М.: МАКС Пресс, 2011. – 20 с. ISBN 978-5-317-03710-9. A new typology of the main types of matter in the biosphere was proposed in this publication, and in a series of additional publications].
Application: improvement of environmental monitoring.
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16.
New fundamental concepts and terminology: two-level synergism of man-made effects; synecological summation of man-made effects:
“synecological summation” or “synergistic summation” of anthropogenic effects on organisms of two adjacent trophic levels: innovations in the publications: Dr. S.A.O. The hazard of a two-level synergism of synecological summation of anthropogenic effects. – Doklady Biological Sciences.  2001; 380: 499-501.
http://sites.google.com/site/2001dbs380p499synerg/;

DOI: 10.1023/A:1012348127085

Danbio52.2001v380p847.E.2 level.synergism. Publication: Doklady Biological Sciences, 2001, vol. 380,
(Russian journal: Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2001, vol. 380, p.847); two-level synergism; Dr. S.A.O.;  http://www.scribd.com/doc/49065634/Danbio52-2001v380p847-E-2level-synergism;
Application: more efficient pollution control;
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17.
Finding of a new anthropogenic factor that may initiate algal blooms (also red tides, brown tides, blooms of cyanobacteria  or blue-green algae):
Publications: 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/; 
The Synecological Approach to the Problem of Eutrophication. – Doklady Biological Sciences, Vol. 381, 2001, pp. 559–562; http://www.scribd.com/doc/49065550/;
Citation of the paper: Inhibitory analysis of top-down control: new keys to studying eutrophication, algal blooms, and water self-purification. Examples of citation in the U.S.A., Germany, Italy, Netherlands, China, Argentina, Philippines, and other countries:
Application: a contribution to the scientific basis for better control of eutrophication, for preventing toxic algae blooms, preventing blooms of cyanobacteria, preventing red tides, brown tides.
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18.
List of the most urgent topics, research priorities for ecology and environmental science for the 21st century. Executive summary that was developed by an international team of ecologists. A basis for grant proposals, for evaluation of new results, for writing new reviews. Full text free [Rivista di Biologia]: 
Application: writing grant proposals; long-term planning, funding and management of scientific research;
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Part 4. Additional information: useful sites:
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A book that contains some data relevant to many of those 17 innovations listed above: 
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Comments on this book in various languages:
in Azerbaijani, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Afrikaans, Basque:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/81915726/
in Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Dutch, Galician, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Danish, Hebrew, Iceland, Spanish:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/81920220/
in Italian, Kannada, Catalan, Chinese, Korean, Latvian:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/82043196/
in Irish, Lithuanian, Malay, Macedonian, Maltese, German: http://www.scribd.com/doc/82113824
in Norwegian:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/82260701/  
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Annotated English bibliography: In the form of a list; Environmental Science, Ecology. Dr. S.O., with comments, with sites of the full texts: http://www.scribd.com/doc/79546542;
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Publications indexed: Web of Science. Area: Environmental sciences, life sciences. Authored, co-authored: Dr. S.A. Ostroumov: http://www.scribd.com/doc/82458780/Indexed-Web-of-Science;
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Key links (2015), on research results of this author: 
All about the author:
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41 articles on environmental sciences, and citation of these articles
citation in the U.S.A., Russia, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Japan, China, Argentina, Philippines, and other countries; selected examples
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/12/41-articles-on-environmental-sciences.html
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Key words: Chinese, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, short list, fundamental discoveries, new facts, new conceptualization, environmental, science, ecology, biology, environmental safety, water quality, sustainability, pollution control, application, resource management, education,


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