new methodology in ecology: Inhibitory Analysis; https://5bio5.blogspot.com/2018/08/n.html

new methodology in ecology: Inhibitory Analysis;

https://5bio5.blogspot.com/2018/08/n.html

New scientific methodology proposed. 

 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/216167167_Inhibitory_Analysis_of_Regulatory_Interactions_in_Trophic_Webs ; 

Author: Ostroumov S.A. 
Title: Inhibitory Analysis of Regulatory Interactions in Trophic Webs. 
Published in:
                     Doklady Biological Sciences, 2001, v.377, No.1-6; pp.139-141. 
DOI 10.1023/A:1019218026198;
Full text free: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/216167167 ; scribd.com/doc/49065567. 

Abstract: 
 In the paper, the author proposed a new approach and methodology to analyze the key ecological issue, namely, the interactions between organisms in ecosystems. The new methodology proposed is inhibitory analysis. The author applied this approach to analyze trophic chains: the top–down control of plankton by benthic filter-feeders. This control, as the author’s experiments have shown, might be removed by chemical inhibitors (the latter may enter the ecosystem as pollutants). As an example, the author gives the results of his experiments on how ecotoxicants exemplified by synthetic surfactants [tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide (TDTMA)] and synthetic detergents inhibited the control of plankton (Monochrystis lutheri) by marine mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis). The method was successfully applied to innovatively analyze the factors that are among causes of eutrophication. Among new facts discovered and presented in this article: the cationic surfactant TDTMA (1 mg/L ) inhibited the filtration rate of juveniles of marine bivalves (marine mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis), and the removal of cells of the algae (Monochrysis lutheri) from water (50 min, 26˚C). 
DOI 10.1023/A:1019218026198;
 http://sites.google.com/site/2001dbs377p139inhibitory/;