Role of filter-feeders in water self-purification. Filter-feedes including bivalve mollusks and others contribute to removing particles from water column. Filter-feeders contribute to improving water quality.
References to publications that underlined this important function of filter-feeders and discovered new facts on these organisms (exemplified by bivalve mollusks):
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2015/12/role-of-filter-feeders-in-water-self.html
Full texts are available free online, on ResearchGate:
References to publications that underlined this important function of filter-feeders and discovered new facts on these organisms (exemplified by bivalve mollusks):
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2015/12/role-of-filter-feeders-in-water-self.html
Full texts are available free online, on ResearchGate:
Ostroumov S.A. Biocontrol of Water Quality: Multifunctional Role of Biota in Water Self-Purification // Russian Journal of General Chemistry, 2010, том 80, № 13, с. 2754-2761 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227303635
Ostroumov S.A. Basics of the molecular-ecological mechanism of water quality formation and water self-purification // Contemporary Problems of Ecology, 2008, том 1, № 1, с. 147-152
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200583098
Ostroumov S.A. On the Multifunctional Role of the Biota in the Self-Purification of Aquatic Ecosystems // Russian Journal of Ecology, 2005, том 36, № 6, с. 414-420.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227317445
Ostroumov S.A. Some aspects of water filtering activity of filter-feeders //Hydrobiologia, 2005, том 542, № 1, с. 275-286; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226902807
Ostroumov S.A. Aquatic ecosystem as a bioreactor: water purification and some other functions // Rivista di Biologia - Biology Forum, 2004, том 97, № 1, с. 67-78
Ostroumov S.A. On the Biotic Self-purification of Aquatic Ecosystems: Elements of the Theory //Doklady Biological Sciences, 2004 том 396, с. 206-211
Ostroumov S.A. Polyfunctional role of biodiversity in processes leading to water purification: current conceptualizations and concluding remarks // Hydrobiologia, 2002 том 469, № 1-3, с. 203-204
Ostroumov S.A. An aquatic ecosystem: a large-scale diversified bioreactor with a water self-purification function // Doklady Biological Sciences, 2000, том 374, с. 514-516
Ostroumov S.A. Biological Filtering and Ecological Machinery for Self-Purification and Bioremediation in Aquatic Ecosystems: Towards a Holistic View. // Rivista di Biologia - Biology Forum, 1998 том 91, № 2, с. 221-232