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

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31 Top Springer Publications selected bibliography: #life_science #ecology #environmental_science  Articles. http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/11/31-publications-life-science-ecology.html

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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 English: http://www.scribd.com/doc/78730274;

In Chinese (simp.): http://www.scribd.com/doc/82323589/

In Chinese (trad.):  http://www.scribd.com/doc/82374003/

In French: http://www.scribd.com/doc/82323068/In-French

In Indonesian:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/82369704/In-Indonesian;

In Italian: http://www.scribd.com/doc/82370780/;

In Japanese: http://www.scribd.com/doc/82404969/In-Japanese;

In Malay:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/82409403/In-Malay;

In Portuguese: http://www.scribd.com/doc/82463074/

In Spanish: http://www.scribd.com/doc/82469956/In-Spanish;

Part 2. THE LIST OF THE DISCOVERIES, INNOVATIONS, FORMULATED IN ONE-LINE SENTENCES:

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: the problem of criteria for environmental hazards.

5. A new contribution to solution: the problem of eutrophication.

6. New measurements on frontiers – biogeochemistry, 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. Authored by Dr. S.A. O.

9. Modernized Terminology. A new improved definition. What is ‘ecosystem’?

10. New key facts. 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. How living organisms change the environment.

16. New fundamental concepts, terminology. Two-level synergism: man-made effects;

17. A new anthropogenic factor: initiation, stimulation of algal blooms.

18. New short list. The most urgent topics: environmental research in 21^st century.

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Part 3. THE LIST OF THE DISCOVERIES WITH REFERENCES TO THE PUBLICATIONS, sites, and comments: 

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Innovative conceptualization of how ecosystems improve water quality (ecosystemic water self-purification):  http://www.scribd.com/doc/60659939/; Key paper, Full text free:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49131150 Number of reads in Internet: About 2.4K READS

www.econf.rae.ru/article/6960

Other Key publications:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/52627327/2H469p203-Polyfunctional-role-w-Addendum; http://www.scribd.com/doc/48099028/; http://www.academia.edu/1900592/;

Citation of this publication: http://5bio5.blogspot.ru/2012/12/citation-of-ostroumov-sa-2002.html

[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/

http://www.academia.edu/1429842

Application: better water resources management, water sustainability, protection of water quality;

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2.

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: http://www.scribd.com/doc/60757545/,

Key publication: http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9780849325267;

http://www.scribd.com/doc/64066178/

Also some papers: http://www.scribd.com/doc/63900190/;

Application: preventing most risky forms of chemical pollution, protection of water quality;

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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 publication: http://www.moip.msu.ru/?p=154;

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An innovative contribution to solution to the problem of criteria for environmental hazards of chemicals (the criteria to evaluate negative anthropogenic effects  of chemicals on organisms): http://www.scribd.com/doc/60891549/;

Key publications: http://sites.google.com/site/2000dbs371p204criteria/; http://www.scribd.com/doc/49088234;

And: http://www.scribd.com/doc/52636721/;

Rivista di Biologia: http://www.scribd.com/ar55/d/52636721-3-System-of-Criteria;

http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/09/ostroumov-sa-anthropogenic-effects-on.html

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A new contribution to solution to the problem of eutrophication: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61241602/

Text of the key publication: http://www.scribd.com/doc/49065550/;

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;  http://b23.ru/ndgz;

Application: preventing or minimizing emissions of greenhouse gases, a contribution to the scientific basis for technologies for climate protection.

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New facts, Discovery: Pollutants Inhibit Fluxes of Chemical Elements: 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:

http://sergostroumov.scienceblog.com/2012/05/04/80/

http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/08/innovative-theory-of-ecosystems.html

http://www.scribd.com/doc/61779321/;

Texts of the key publications: http://www.scribd.com/doc/44105992/;

www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/100141.pdf;

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/;

Key publication: http://www.scribd.com/doc/49065580; The new definition that was proposed in this publication is in accord with the modern knowledge.

Citation of: New definitions of the concepts and terms ecosystem and biogeocenosis:

http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/12/citation-of-new-definitions-of-concepts.html

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 ( Ceratophyllum demersum) 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/;

Key publication: http://www.getcited.org/pub/103493773;

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;

http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergei_Ostroumov/blog/5465_ConceptsEcologicalChemomediators;

http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/08/concepts-of-biochemical-ecology-and.html

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.

http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2013/01/on-book-introduction-to-biochemical.html

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/;

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://b23.ru/n1dk  = 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/; http://b23.ru/nwmb;

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:

http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/12/citation-of-inhibitory-analysis-of-top.html

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 21^st 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]: http://www.scribd.com/doc/52655707/

http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/08/priorities-in-ecological-studies-topics.html

http://moscowstate.academia.edu/SergeiOstroumov/Papers/806215/

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: http://b23.ru/ksmk

http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-first-english-language-monograph-on.html

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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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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,