Innovative conceptualization of how ecosystems improve water quality (water self-purification)
[Item 1 in the Series of files entitled: Legendary Discoveries];
There are a lot questions that are of key interest in our studies of ecological mechanisms that regulate, modify and form water quality in surface aquatic ecosystems. These questions are listed below.
Besides microorganisms, do the other organisms play a key role in improving water quality?
Which processes are the main ones which contribute to water self-purification?
Which organisms play key roles in improving water quality in aquatic ecosystems?
Which organisms, freshwater or marine are more involved in improving water quality?
How biological, chemical and physical processes are interacting in ecosystem in improving water quality?
Is it possible to organize a multitude of factors and processes of water self-purification into a few groups (categories, blocks)?
Is the self-purification potential of an aquatic ecosystem a certain constant or a labile parameter?
Is the mechanism of water self-purification vulnerable to external impact on the aquatic ecosystem, e.g. to the impact of chemical pollution with synthetic chemicals?
Answer was given in the papers
–see online: http://www.scribd.com/doc/60659939/:
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Ostroumov S.A. Polyfunctional role of biodiversity in processes leading to water purification: current conceptualizations and concluding remarks. -Hydrobiologia, 2002,469: 203-204.
DOI 10.1007/s10750-004-1875-1;Full text free: http://www.scribd.com/doc/52627327/; http://scipeople.com/uploads/materials/4389/;
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S.A.Ostroumov. On the biotic self-purification of aquatic ecosystems: elements of the theory. -Doklady Biological Sciences, Vol. 396,2004, pp. 206 – 211. http://www.scribd.com/doc/48099028/ ;
and some other papers by the same authors cited in those articles.
The series of these papers contributed to a new conceptualization of multifunctional role of organisms, biological community and ecosystem in improving water quality.
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key words:
ecotoxicology, environmental, chemistry, water, sustainability; aquatic, ecosystems, freshwater, marine, resources, environmental safety, biodiversity, protection, conservation, services, hydrosphere, pollution, control, prevention, habitats, decontamination, water quality, self-purification, pollutants, biological, processes, anthropogenic, effects,
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Short and direct annotations on what are the key innovations and the key discoveries in the publications of this author, in various languages including Armenian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Moldovan, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian:
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A note on the books by this author that are available in key world libraries in North America (libraries of the U.S.A., including Harvard University; Canada), Europe (national and university libraries of England, including Oxford, Cambridge; Germany; France; Switzerland; Netherlands; Sweden; Norway; Finland; Denmark; Belgium, Italy; Spain and other countries), Asia (Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore and other countries), Australia, New Zealand, see: http://www.scribd.com/doc/77617474/;
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Updated January 20, 2012.
Where to find this file on PC: D:\2011\Main.Discoveries\NewFormat, without table\ 1.Legendary.Discoveries.Innovative conceptualization of how ecosystems improve water quality.docx
CONTENT:
The questions on improving water quality that were answered in this series of publications
Innovation / Discovery, in short;
Why it is useful;
Who cited the papers presenting various aspects of this innovation ;
Where this innovation / discovery was published;
Other examples of key discoveries in ecology, environmental sciences, biology;
Citation: Scientists of which countries cited those discoveries;
Scientists of which institutions cited those discoveries;
A list of who cited those discoveries;
Other evaluations of works of this author;
About the author of these publications;
Modernization of education ;
Addition
About this author, in Russian: http://famous-scientists.ru/3732/
Interesting posts on innovations in environmental science:
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/05/normal-0-false-false-false-ru-x-none-x_03.html;
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/04/environmental-science-key-bibliography.html;
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/05/websites-on-scientific-activities-of.html;
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/05/blog-post.html;
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/05/discovery-of-inhibitory-analysis-in.html;
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/05/aquatic-macrophyte-ceratophyllum.html;
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/04/well-cited-article-inhibitory-analysis.html;
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/05/innovative-contribution-to-solution-to.html;
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-scientific-terminology-integral.html;
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/05/monetary-estimate-of-good-scientific.html;
Discovery of the key role of organisms that filter water and make it clear
New facts on hazardous biological and toxic effects of surfactants and detergents: paradigm shifted
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