New insight into ecosystem services. Article titled: On the biotic self-purification of aquatic ecosystems: elements of the theory

A new insight into ecosystem services was provided in the article titled:

On the biotic self-purification of aquatic ecosystems: elements of the theory. Article.

link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FB%3ADOBS.0000033278.12858.12;

DOI 10.1023/B:DOBS.0000033278.12858.12.

One of key benefits from normal function of healthy aquatic ecosystems is  the provisioning of clean  water, in other words, maintaining proper water quality (which is a result of water self-purification in ecosystem).  Until the time of publishing this article, no consistent and multi-faceted theory of water self-purification had existed. This article is the first publication to formulate such a theory that  elucidates and integrates multiple roles of aquatic organisms involved, including not only microorganisms but also macroorganisms, e.g., higher plants and invertebrates. Both plankton and benthic organisms are involved and their roles were discovered and analyzed in this article.
A more detailed description of the content of this paper:
This article presents a  new theory of biotic (biological) maintaining the natural purification potential of aquatic ecosystems. The fundamental elements are formulated for a qualitative theory of the multifunctional (polyfunctional) role of the biota (the biological community of aquatic organisms) in improving water quality and doing water self-purification in aquatic ecosystems. The  theory covers the following:
the sources of energy for the mechanisms of water self-purification;
the main functional blocks of the system of self-purification;
the system of the main processes that are involved;
the analysis of the degree of participation of the main large taxa; the reliability of the mechanisms of water self-purification; regulation of the processes;
the response of the mechanisms of water self-purification towards the external influences (man-made impacts, pollution);
and some conclusions relevant to the practice of environment protection.
In support of the theory, the results are given of the author’s experiments which demonstrated the ability of some pollutants (surfactants, detergents, and some others) to inhibit the water filtration activity of aquatic invertebrate filter-feeders, namely, the bivalve mollusks, including mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis, Mytilus edulis), and oysters (Crassostrea gigas).
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Laboratory of Physico-Chemistry of Biomembranes, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vorob’evy gory, Moscow, 119991 Russia.

Doklady Biological Sciences. 2004; 396:206-211.

Source: PubMed;

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This paper is on the short prestigious, honorable list ‘Top papers, books on aquatic ecology, ecotoxicology’ at the largest global catalog, WorldCatalog

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This fundamental and innovative article was cited and commented favorably by scientists in many countries.

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200567576_On_the_biotic_self-purification_of_aquatic_ecosystems_elements_of_the_theory ;

This paper is on the short prestigious, honorable list ‘Top papers, books on aquatic ecology, ecotoxicology’ at the largest global catalog, WorldCatalog [source: http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-series-of-publications-on-list-of.html].

This article was cited by scientists in Europe, N. America (U.S.A.), and Asia. Diploma (Academy of Water Sciences) – a certificate of high scientific quality – was awarded to the series of publications (on ecology, environmental science) including this article: http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2014/07/award-july-1-2014-to-series-of.html;

The paper was bookmarked by members of ResearchGate.

DOI: 10.1023/B:DOBS.0000033278.12858.12; http://scipeople.ru/users/2943391/; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200567576_ ;

This paper has a double impact as it is in the journal that is being published in 2 languages.

The Russian version of this paper was published:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265294672_ ;

The reference to the Russian version: Doklady Akademii Nauk, V.396, No.1, 2004, p.136–141.

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Inhibition of mussel suspension feeding by surfactants of three classes

Inhibition of mussel suspension feeding by surfactants of three classes.

link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10750-005-1200-7

 

Hydrobiologia, 2006, Volume: 556, Pages: 381-386.

link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10750-005-1200-7;

In 2006, an important series of experiments on ecotoxicology of detergents was published in the journal HYDROBIOLOGIA, (2006, Volume: 556, Pages: 381-386) by an international team of researchers. This was the first paper that reported the experiments that showed that all three main kinds of synthetic surfactants (detergent chemicals) slow down the filtration of water by key marine organisms, filter-feeders, bivalves, namely, the marine mussels of the Atlantic Ocean (Mytilus edulis). http://www.scribd.com/doc/45958156

 

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/215586803_Inhibition_of_mussel_suspension_feeding_by_surfactants_of_three_classes;

Authors:
Sergei A. Ostroumov, John Widdows,
Authors affiliation:
Moscow State University, Plymouth Marine Laboratory,
Tags:
marine mussels, Mytilus edulis, surfactants, detergents, toxicology, protection of environment, water quality, pollution, marine, aquatic, new, water, filtration,

Pellets of some mollusks in the biogeochemical flows of C, N, P, Si, and Al

07.01.2015. Pellets of some mollusks in the biogeochemical flows of C, N, P, Si, and Al. – Doklady Biological Sciences, 2001. Vol. 379, P. 378-381. DOI 10.1023/A:1011620817764;

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Pellets of some mollusks in the biogeochemical flows of C, N, P, Si, and Al. – Doklady Biological Sciences, 2001. Vol. 379, P. 378-381.

ISSN: 0012-4966 (Print) 1608-3105 (Online) Distributed by Springer,  orderdept@springer-sbm.com [co-authors: S.A.Ostroumov, Kolesnikov M.P.].

Translated from the original Russian edition: Доклады академии наук [DAN ] 2001.  Том (Vol.) 379.  No. 3.  Стр. (P.) 426-429.

Pellets of some mollusks in the biogeochemical flows of C, N, P, Si, and Al. – Doklady Biological Sciences, 2001. Vol. 379, P. 378-381.

DOI 10.1023/A:1011620817764;

link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1011620817764;

http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2015/01/pellets-of-some-mollusks-in.html
Full text free:

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Pellets of some mollusks in the biogeochemical flows of C, N, P, Si, and Al. – Doklady Biological Sciences, 2001. Vol. 379, P. 378-381. (Translated from: DAN 2001. Vol. 379.  No. 3. P. 426-429). ISSN 0012-4966. Distributed by Springer,  orderdept@springer-sbm.com [co-authors: S.A.Ostroumov, Kolesnikov M.P.].

 

Until now the role of mollusks as links between ecological and geochemical processes was underestimated. The paper discovered the role of mollusks as key biomachines that drive massive flows of chemical elements including C, N, P, Si, Al in the biosphere, and hazards from pollutants as inhibitors of these flows. New data on coupling of geochemical and ecological (hydrobiological) processes. The role of freshwater mollusks, pond snails (Lymnaea stagnalis) in the flows of chemical elements in the biosphere was studied by detecting the elemental composition and amount of pellets produced by the mollusks.

For the first time, the following was quantitatively studied:

(1) the elemental composition (C, N, P, Si, Al) of the pellets formed by mollusks Lymnaea stagnalis feeding on the green leaves of the higher plants Nuphar lutea and Taraxacum officinale;

 

(2) the amount (wet weight, dry weight) of pellets formed by L. stagnalis feeding on the leaves of N. lutea and T. officinale;

(3) the transfer of matter and chemical elements (C, N, P, Si, Al)  with pellets of freshwater bivalves (unionids Unio sp., etc.) per unit biomass of mollusks and per unit area of the ecosystem of the river;

 

(4) the transfer of matter and chemical elements (C, N, P, Si, Al) with the pellets of L. stagnalis per unit biomass of mollusks and per unit area of the ecosystem of the pond.

Synthetic surfactants tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide (ТDТМА) 2 mg/l, sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) 1-2 mg/l, and  the laundry detergent (one of common detergents, Tide-Lemon) 75 mg/l inhibited the trophic activity (feeding rate) of the snails (L. stagnalis). Percents of food assimilability of taxons of invertebrates, from Rotatoria (48-80) to Diptera (1-31)].

DOI 10.1023/A:1011620817764;   http://sites.google.com/site/2001dbs379p378pellets/; http://www.scribd.com/doc/45911730;

PMID: 12918380 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE];

 Tags: C, N, P, Si, Al, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, freshwater mollusks, pond snails, Lymnaea stagnalis, pellets, higher plants, Nuphar lutea, feeding rate, tetradecyltrimethylammonium,  dodecyl sulfate, SDS, laundry detergent, trophic activity, aquatic, environmental, toxicology, ecotoxicology, ecology, freshwater, water quality, pollution, hazards, unionids, bivalves, Unio,

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Notes for this article (4 public)  

Innovative pape on how aquatic molluscs function as part of biomachinery and mechanism to transfer chemical elements through aquatic ecosystem. The first paper in which the quantitative measurements were reported on how much of the chemical elements are being transferred through ecosystem in the form of pellets.

 

** First measurements, first publication: New quantitative data on how aquatic mollusks drive fluxes of the chemical elements.

 

** Ostroumov S. A., M. P. Kolesnikov. Pellets of Some Mollusks in the Biogeochemical Flows of C, N, P, Si, and Al. – Doklady Biological Sciences, 2001, v.379, p.378-381. www.scribd.com/doc/49065604; http://www.scribd.com/doc/45911730;

PMID: 12918380; www.scribd.com/doc/49065604; http://www.scribd.com/doc/45911730;

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** Clear Water Fundamentals: theory, practical recommendations, water self-purification. Basics of the molecular-ecological mechanism of water quality formation and water self-purification.  http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/09/fundamentals-theory-water-self.html

 

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Responses of Unio tumidus to Mixed Chemical Preparations and the Hazard of Synecological Summation of Anthropogenic Effects

Responses of Unio tumidus to Mixed Chemical Preparations and the Hazard of Synecological Summation of Anthropogenic Effects.

Responses of #Unio tumidus to Mixed #Chemical Preparations and the #Hazard of Synecological Summation;

DOI 10.1023/A:1012344026176;

http://t.co/M19EfGfoJe #springerlink;

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1012344026176;

http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2015/01/responses-of-unio-tumidus-to-mixed.html

This  article reports new experimental data on ecotoxicology. This is an ecology article in a peer-reviewed scientific journal; new data on environmental hazards from water pollution with synthetic detergents;

Unio tumidus is the Latin name for the common freshwater bivalve mollusk (freshwater mussels). New toxic effects of low concentrations of detergents (which are mixtures of chemicals including surfactants) were discovered in this article. The article presents both new facts and new concepts that are relevant to improvement of water quality and pollution control.

This article is available in university libraries; also, see the link:

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Journal:

Doklady Biological Sciences,

Volume 380, Issue 1-6 , pp. 492-495.

DOI 10.1023/A:1012344026176 ;

Print ISSN 0012-4966;

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More info on environmental toxicology of detergents:

Phytotoxicity of a surfactant-containing product towards macrophytes.

95 top publications. Ecology, environment, environmental science, environmental protection, environmental safety, water, biology, Dr. Sergei A. Ostroumov, Award recipient (Fulbright Award; MOIP Award, and others)

95 publications. Ecology, environment, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, biology, water, environmental safety, water quality, water self-purification, aquatic ecology, ecosystems, water bodies, streams, bioassay, hazards, detergents, surfactants, macrophytes, phytoremediation, Moscow State University, selected

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Publications. Dr. Sergei Ostroumov,  At Google Scholar profile, 2013, November 20. 14 pages:

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KEY WORDS:  environmental sciences, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, life sciences, geosciences, water science, ecology, ecotoxicology, biosphere, water quality, biogeochemistry, biochemical ecology, aquatic ecology, environmental education, nanotoxicology, water self-purification, environmental safety, surfactants, detergents, biology,

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LIST OF 95  SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS:

2013 Studies of the hydrocarbon-oxidizing microorganisms in deep underground waters of the Puchezh-Katunki impact structure.  Kondakova G.V., Verkhovtseva N.V., Ostroumov S.A. 2013. Journal:   Moscow University Biological Sciences Bulletin,  No.   2, P. 31-35; DOI; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof.  Dr. M. P. Kirpichnikov, Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Chair, Department of Moscow University; Dean of Biological Faculty, Moscow University; Ex-Minister of Science, Russian Federation;  Place: Allerton Press (New York, N.Y., United States);

2013. Myriophyllum aquaticum mortmass immobilizes palladium, scandium, titanium, zirconium, uranium, and other chemical elements that entered aquatic medium in soluble or nanoparticulate form. S.A. Ostroumov, Monique E.Johnson, J.F.Tyson, B.Xing. 2013. – Ecological Studies, Hazards, Solutions, 2013. Vol. 18, p. 69-74. http://istina.msu.ru/publications/article/3338363/; Editors: Academician Prof. Dr. G.V.Dobrovolsky (Full Member, Russian Academy of Sciences; Director, Institute of RAS and Moscow University) et al.; Place: Russian Federation;
2013. Using bioassay and cell technologies to assess nanomaterial toxicity in 4 species of macrophytes and 7 cell cultures of mammals (including humans) and birds. Ostroumov S.A.,  Podchernyaeva R. Ya., Suetina I. A.,  Lopatina O. A., Gushina E.A.,  Xing B. 2013.- Ecological Studies, Hazards, Solutions, 2013. Vol. 18, p.74-78. Editors: Academician Prof. Dr. G.V.Dobrovolsky (Full Member, Russian Academy of Sciences; Director, Institute of RAS and Moscow University) et al.; Place: Russian Federation;

2012 Effects of three types of metal oxide nanoparticles (TiO2, CuO, Al2O3) on the seedlings of the higher plant Lens culinaris. Ostroumov S. A., Xing B. 2012.  – ECOLOGICA, (2012), v. 19 (65),  p.10-14. Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. L. Jovanovic, President, Environmental Society of Republic of Serbia; Place: Republic of Serbia.

2012 Using cell technologies to assess the toxicity of nanoparticles of metal oxides. Suetina I. A., Podchernyaeva R. Ya., Gushina E.A. , Lopatina O.A., Poklonov V.A., Ostroumov S.A. 2012 – Pharmaceutical and Medical Biotechnology. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference, March 20-22, 2012. Moscow. Moscow, JSC Expo-Biochem-Technologies, D.I.Mendeleev University of Chemistry and Technology,  p. 135-136. Place: Moscow, Russian Federation.

 

2011 Toxicology of nanomaterials and environment. Ostroumov S.A., Kotelevtsev S.V. 2011.- Ecologica  2011, vol. 18, issue 61, pp. 3-10. Full text: http://ru.scribd.com/doc/58103094/;  Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. L. Jovanovic, President, Environmental Society of Republic of Serbia; Place: Republic of Serbia.

 

2011  Toxicology of nanomaterials: assessment of the toxicity of nanoparticles of copper oxides and iron on cell culture. Suetina I. A.,  Podchernyaeva R. Ya., Lopatina O.A., Ostroumov S.A. 2011.  –  The 2nd International School “Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology in Living Systems. Safety and Nanomedicine. ” (September 19-24, 2011). Moscow. P.  185-186. Place: Moscow, Russian Federation.

 

2011 Study of the interactions between Elodea canadensis and CuO nanoparticles. Johnson M.E., Ostroumov S.A., Tyson J.F., Xing B. 2011. Journal:  Russian Journal of General Chemistry, Volume  81, No.   13, P. 2688-2693. DOI 10.1134/S107036321113010X; Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Anatoly I. Rusanov, Full Member (Academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair, Colloid Chemistry Department of St. Petersburg State University;  Publisher: Springer US, Place: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St, U.S.A.

2010. Biocontrol of Water Quality: Multifunctional Role of Biota in Water Self-Purification. Ostroumov S.A. 2010. Journal:  Russian Journal of General Chemistry, Volume  80, No.   13, P.  2754-2761 . DOI; Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Anatoly I. Rusanov, Full Member (Academician); Chair, Colloid Chemistry Department of St. Petersburg State University;  Publisher: Springer US, Place: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St, U.S.A.

2010 The Aquatic Macrophyte Ceratophyllum demersum Immobilizes Au Nanoparticles after Their Addition to Water.  Ostroumov S.A., Kolesov G.M. 2010.  Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Volume  431, P.  124-127; DOI 10.1134/S0012496610020158; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2010 The role of biodetritus in accumulation of elements in aquatic ecosystems. Ostroumov S.A., Kolesov G.M. 2010. Journal:  Contemporary Problems of Ecology, Volume  3, No.   4, P.  369-373;   DOI;  Editor-in-Chief:  Prof.  Dr. I. Koropachinsky, Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Advisor and ex-Director of RAS Central Siberian Botanical Garden;  Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2009. Accelerated decrease in surfactant concentration in the water of a microcosm in the presence of plants: Innovations for phytotechnology. Lazareva E.V., Ostroumov S.A. 2009. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Volume  425, No.   1, P.  180-182;  DOI ; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2009 Decreasing the measurable concentrations of Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb in the water of the experimental systems containing Ceratophyllum demersum: The phytoremediation potential. Ostroumov S.A., Shestakova T.V. 2009. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Volume  428, No.   1, P.  444-447;  DOI ; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2009 On studying the hazards of pollution of the biosphere: Effects of sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) on planktonic filter-feeders. Vorozhun I.M., Ostroumov S.A. 2009. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Volume  425, No.   1, P.  133-134; DOI;  Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2008 Basics of the molecular-ecological mechanism of water quality formation and water self-purification. Ostroumov S.A. 2008. Journal:  Contemporary Problems of Ecology, Maik Nauka/Interperiodica Publishing (Russian Federation), Volume  1, No.   1, P.  147-152; DOI; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof.  Dr. I. Koropachinsky, Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Advisor and ex-Director of RAS Central Siberian Botanical Garden;  Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2008 On the concepts of biochemical ecology and hydrobiology: Ecological chemomediators . Ostroumov S.A. 2008. Journal:  Contemporary Problems of Ecology, Maik Nauka/Interperiodica Publishing (Russian Federation), Volume  1, No.   2, P.  238-244; DOI; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof.  Dr. I. Koropachinsky, Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Advisor and ex-Director of RAS Central Siberian Botanical Garden;  Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

 2007. Tolerance of an aquatic macrophyte Potamogeton crispus L. to sodium dodecyl sulphate. Solomonova E. A., Ostroumov S. A. 2007. MOSCOW UNIVERSITY BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BULLETIN; 62, 4; 176-179.  Editor-in-Chief:  Prof.  Dr. M. P. Kirpichnikov, Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Chair, Department of Moscow University; Dean of Biological Faculty, Moscow University; Ex-Minister of Science, Russian Federation; Publisher and Place: Allerton Press (New York, N.Y., United States);

2006. Inhibition of mussel suspension feeding by surfactants of three classes. Ostroumov S.A., Widdows J. 2006. Journal:  Hydrobiologia, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Netherlands), Volume  556, No.   1, P.  381-386;  Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Koen Martens; Publisher: Springer Netherlands; Place: Van Godewijckstraat 30, 3311 GX Dordrecht, The Netherlands;

2005. On some issues of maintaining water quality and self-purification. Ostroumov S.A. 2005. Journal:  Water Resources, Maik Nauka/Interperiodica Publishing (Russian Federation), Volume  32, No.   3, P.  305-313; DOI;  EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Victor I. Danilov-Daniliyan, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Director, Institute of Water Problems of RAS; ex-Minister of Environment and Natural Resources of the Russian Federation (1991-1996), ex- Chairman of the Russian Federation State Committee for Environmental Protection (1996-2000), Chairman of the Governmental Flood Control Commission in 1992-1994; the Chairman of the Governmental Commission for Baikal Lake in 1993-2000; the Chairman of the Governmental Commission for the Caspian Sea in 1994-2000; Head, An international UNECSO Chair in Water Resources Management and Ecohydrology at the Water Problems Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences;  Head, Department of Water Resources Management,  the State Management Faculty, Moscow State University; Place: Pleiades Publishing, U.S.A.

2005 On the Multifunctional Role of the Biota in the Self-Purification of Aquatic Ecosystems.  Ostroumov S.A. 2005. Journal:  Russian Journal of Ecology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Federation), Volume  36, No.   6, P.  414-420; DOI ; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof.  Dr. V.N. Bolshakov, Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Chair of Department, Ural University; Director, Institute of Ecology of RAS;  Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof.  Dr. V.N. Bolshakov, Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Chair of Department, Ural University; Director, Institute of Ecology of RAS;  Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2005. Some aspects of water filtering activity of filter-feeders. Ostroumov S.A. 2005. Journal:  Hydrobiologia, Volume  542, No.   1, P.  275-286 DOI ; Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Koen Martens; Publisher: Springer Netherlands; Place: Van Godewijckstraat 30, 3311 GX Dordrecht, The Netherlands;

2004. Aquatic ecosystem as a bioreactor: water purification and some other functions. Ostroumov S.A. 2004. Journal:  Rivista di Biologia – Biology Forum, Tilgher-Genova (Italy), Volume  97, No.   1, P.  67-78; The current title of the Journal:   THEORETICAL BIOLOGY FORUM [Founded in Italy in 1919]; Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr.  Silvano Traverso (Genova) ;   Place: Fabrizio Serra editore, Pisa – Roma, Italy  [An Authoritative International Academic Press since 1928 and Italy’s Foremost Publisher of Scholarly Journals];

2004 On the Biotic Self-purification of Aquatic Ecosystems: Elements of the Theory. Ostroumov S.A. 2004. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Maik Nauka/Interperiodica Publishing (Russian Federation), Volume  396, P.  206-211; DOI; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2004 The effect of synthetic surfactants on the hydrobiological mechanisms of water self-purification. 2004. Ostroumov S.A.  Journal:  Water Resources, Volume  31, No.   5, P.  502-510; EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Victor I. Danilov-Daniliyan, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Director, Institute of Water Problems of RAS; ex-Minister of Environment and Natural Resources of the Russian Federation (1991-1996), ex- Chairman of the Russian Federation State Committee for Environmental Protection (1996-2000), Chairman of the Governmental Flood Control Commission in 1992-1994; the Chairman of the Governmental Commission for Baikal Lake in 1993-2000; the Chairman of the Governmental Commission for the Caspian Sea in 1994-2000; Head, An international UNECSO Chair in Water Resources Management and Ecohydrology at the Water Problems Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences;  Head, Department of Water Resources Management,  the State Management Faculty, Moscow State University; Place: Pleiades Publishing, U.S.A.

2003 Medium-term and long-term priorities in ecological studies. Ostroumov S.A., Dodson S.I., Hamilton D., Peterson S.A., Wetzel R.G. 2003. – Rivista di Biol. 2003, 96(2): 327-332. The current title of the Journal:   THEORETICAL BIOLOGY FORUM; PMID: 14595906 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]; http://www.scribd.com/doc/48100827/3Rivista-Bio-96-Priorities-2; [Founded in Italy in 1919, an Authoritative International Academic Press since 1928 and Italy’s Foremost Publisher of Scholarly Journals]; Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr.  Silvano Traverso (Genova) ;   Place: Fabrizio Serra editore, Pisa – Roma, Italy;

2003 Influence of some amphyphilic substances and mixtures on marine mollusks. Ostroumov S.A. 2003. Journal:  Hydrobiological Journal, V. 39, No.   4, P.  97-101; DOI; Editor-in-Chief: V. D. Romanenko, Full Member (Academician), National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU); Director, Institute of Hydrobiology of NASU; President, Hydroecological Society of Ukraine; Place: Begell House (United States);

2003 Studying effects of some surfactants and detergents on filter-feeding bivalves. Ostroumov S.A. 2003. Journal:  Hydrobiologia, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Netherlands), Volume  500, P.  341-344; DOI; full text: https://www.academia.edu/2922688/; Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Koen Martens; Publisher: Springer Netherlands; Place: Van Godewijckstraat 30, 3311 GX Dordrecht, The Netherlands;

2003 The Functions of Living Substances in the Biosphere.  Ostroumov S.A. 2003. Journal:  Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, M A I K Mauka – Interperiodica (Russian Federation), Volume  73, No.   2, P.  164-169; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2003 Anthropogenic effects on the biota: towards a new system of principles and criteria for analysis of ecological hazards.  Ostroumov S.A. 2003. Rivista di Biologia / Biology Forum. 2003. vol. 96, No.1. P.159-170. Full text:  http://ru.scribd.com/doc/52636721/; The current title of the Journal:   THEORETICAL BIOLOGY FORUM [Founded in Italy in 1919, an Authoritative International Academic Press since 1928 and Italy’s Foremost Publisher of Scholarly Journals]; Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr.  Silvano Traverso (Genova) ;   Place: Fabrizio Serra editore, Pisa – Roma, Italy;

2002 A New Type of Effect of Potentially Hazardous Substances: Uncouplers of Pelagial–Benthal Coupling.  Ostroumov S.A. 2002. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Maik Nauka/Interperiodica Publishing (Russian Federation), Volume  383, P.  127-130; DOI;  Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2002 Biodiversity Protection and Quality of Water: The Role of Feedbacks in Ecosystems. Ostroumov S.A. 2002. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Maik Nauka/Interperiodica Publishing (Russian Federation), Volume  382, P.  18-21; DOI; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2002 Identification of a new type of ecological hazard of chemicals: inhibition of processes of ecological remediation.  Ostroumov S.A. 2002. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Maik Nauka/Interperiodica Publishing (Russian Federation), Volume  385, P.  377-379; DOI; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2002 Inhibitory analysis of top-down control: new keys to studying eutrophication, algal blooms, and water self-purification.  Ostroumov S.A. 2002. Journal:  Hydrobiologia, Volume  469, P.  117-129 ; DOI; full text: https://www.academia.edu/782765/; Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Koen Martens; Publisher: Springer Netherlands; Place: Van Godewijckstraat 30, 3311 GX Dordrecht, The Netherlands;

2002 New Definitions of the Concepts and Terms Ecosystem and Biogeocenosis. Ostroumov S.A. 2002. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Volume  383, P.  141-143; DOI ; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2002 Polyfunctional role of biodiversity in processes leading to water purification: current conceptualizations and concluding remarks. Ostroumov S.A. 2002. Journal:  Hydrobiologia, Volume  469, No.   1-3, P.  203-204;  DOI; Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Koen Martens; Publisher: Springer Netherlands; Place: Van Godewijckstraat 30, 3311 GX Dordrecht, The Netherlands;

2002 System of Principles for Conservation of the Biogeocenotic Function and the Biodiversity of Filter-Feeders.  Ostroumov S.A. 2002. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Volume  383, P.  147-150; DOI ; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2001 An amphiphilic substance inhibits the mollusk capacity to filter out phytoplankton cells from water. Ostroumov S.A. 2001. Journal:  Biology Bulletin, M A I K Mauka – Interperiodica (Russian Federation), Volume  28, No.   1, P.  95-102; DOI; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2001 Effect of Amphiphilic Chemicals on Filter-Feeding Marine Organisms. Ostroumov S.A. 2001. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Maik Nauka/Interperiodica Publishing (Russian Federation), Volume  378, P.  248-250; DOI; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2001 Imbalance of Factors Providing Control of Unicellular Plankton Populations Exposed to Anthropogenic Impact. Ostroumov S.A. 2001. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Maik Nauka/Interperiodica Publishing (Russian Federation), Volume  379, P.  341-343; DOI ; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2001 Inhibitory Analysis of Regulatory Interactions in Trophic Webs.  Ostroumov S.A. 2001. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Volume  377, P.  139-141; DOI ; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2001 Pellets of some mollusks in the Biogeochemical Flows of C, N, P, Si, and Al. Ostroumov S.A., Kolesnikov M.P. 2001. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Volume  379, P.  378-381; DOI; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2001 Responses of Unio tumidus to Mixed Chemical Preparations and the Hazard of Synecological Summation of Anthropogenic Effects. Ostroumov S.A. 2001. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Volume  380, P.  492-495; DOI ; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2001 The Hazard of a Two-Level Synergism of Synecological Summation of Anthropogenic Effects. Ostroumov S.A. 2001. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Volume  380, P.  499-501; DOI ; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2001 The Synecological Approach to the Problem of Eutrophication. Ostroumov S.A. 2001. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Volume  381, P.  559-562; DOI ; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2000 An aquatic ecosystem: a large-scale diversified bioreactor with a water self-purification function. Ostroumov S.A. 2000. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Volume  374, P.  514-516; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2000 Biocatalysis of Matter Transfer in a Microcosm Is Inhibited by a Contaminant: Effects of a Surfactant on Limnea stagnalis.  Ostroumov S.A., Kolesnikov M.P. 2000. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences , Volume  373, P.  397-399 ; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2000 Criteria of ecological hazards due to anthropogenic effects on the biota: searching for a system. Ostroumov S.A. 2000. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Volume  371, P.  204-206 ; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

2000. The Concept of Aquatic Biota as a Labile and Vulnerable Component of the Water Self-Purification System .  Ostroumov S.A. 2000. Journal:  Doklady Biological Sciences, Volume  372, P.  286-289; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

1998. Biological Filtering and Ecological Machinery for Self-Purification and Bioremediation in Aquatic Ecosystems: Towards a Holistic View.  Ostroumov S.A. 1998. Journal:  Rivista di Biologia – Biology Forum, Tilgher-Genova (Italy), Volume  91, No.   2, P.  221-232 ; The current title of the Journal:   THEORETICAL BIOLOGY FORUM [Founded in Italy in 1919, an Authoritative International Academic Press since 1928 and Italy’s Foremost Publisher of Scholarly Journals]; Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr.  Silvano Traverso (Genova) ;   Place: Fabrizio Serra editore, Pisa – Roma, Italy;

1998. Impairment of filtration by bivalves Mytilus edulis induced by two classes of synthetic surfactants.  Ostroumov, S. A.; Donkin, P.; Staff, F. (1998),  Journal: Doklady Akademii Nauk, 362(4):574-576. ; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Dr. Yurii Osipov, President and Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair of Department, Moscow University; English version (translation) was published by:  Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

1994. Effect of Nonionogenic Surfactant on Cyanobacteria.  Waterbury J., Ostroumov S.A. 1994. Journal:  Microbiology, (Russian Federation), Volume  63, No.   2, P.  140-142 ; EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Mikhail V. Ivanov, Full Member (Academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, RAS; Place: Pleiades Publishing, USA;

1993 Reaction of Fagopyrum esculentum Moench to Pollution of Aqueous Medium with Polymeric Surfactants.  Ostroumov S.A., Semykina N.A. 1993. Journal:  Russian Journal of Ecology,  Volume  24, No.   6, P.  386-390; Editor-in-Chief:  Prof.  Dr. V.N. Bolshakov, Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Chair of Department, Ural University; Director, Institute of Ecology of RAS;  Place: Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.

1992. Bioassay of surfactants based on the disruption of seedling attachment to the substrate and rhizoderm root hair formation. Ostroumov S.A. Maksimov V.N. 1992. Biology Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (  Biol. Bul.l Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R.). May 1992. v. 18 (4) p. 383-386.   Current title of the journal: Biology Bulletin; [key words: Fagopyrum esculentum, Brassica alba, Triticum aestivum, indicator plants, root hairs, seedlings, surface active agents, bioassays, pollution, surfactant]. Abstract: New data on phytotoxicity of surfactants to plant seedlings of the species Fagopyrum esculentum, Brassica alba, Triticum aestivum. New method of bioassay. Available in National Agricultural Library, USA.  Availability NAL/USDA,           United States of America; Availability number 9180902; Contact: http://www.nal.usda.gov/services/request.shtml; access@nal.usda.gov;  Location: Stacks Call Number: QH301.A43; http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2013/04/bibliography-of-dr-sa-ostroumov.html; http://www.scribd.com/doc/81677620; Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Bella R. Striganova, Member, Russian Academy of Sciences; Publisher:     Springer US, Place: U.S.A.

1991 Vasternak K.,  Ostroumov S.A. Effect of aquatic pollution by the detergent Bio-S on euglenas. – Hydrobiological Journal (Gidrobiologicheskiy Zhurnal [HYDROBIOL. J.]). 1991. Vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 92-94. Descriptors: Article Subject Terms: detergents, growth, surfactants, toxicity, toxicity, testing, toxicity tests, water pollution; Article Taxonomic Terms: Euglena gracilis. Editor-in-Chief: V. D. Romanenko, Full Member (Academician), National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU); Director, Institute of Hydrobiology of NASU; President, Hydroecological Society of Ukraine; Place: Begell House (United States);

1990. Effect of environmental pollution with a cationic surface-active substance on algae and Fagopyrum esculentum sprouts. Ostroumov S.A., Tret’yakova A.N. 1990. Journal:  The Soviet journal of ecology, [the current title of the journal: Russian Journal of Ecology ] Volume  21, No.   2, P.  79-81 ; [key words: cyanobacteria Nostoc muscorum, green algae  Bracteacoccus minor, Fagopyrum esculentum:, effects, of the cationic surfactant, TDTMA, Pesticides, Aquatic Biology and Ecology, Pollution and Degradation, Algae, Fagopyrum esculentum, buckwheat,  Pollution, Surfactants, Test Procedure, environmental pollution,  surface active agents, Fagopyrum, Polygonaceae, Polygonales, dicotyledons, angiosperm, Spermatophyta,  plants, eukaryotes, aquatic plants, aquatic organisms].  Editor-in-Chief:  Prof.  Dr. V.N. Bolshakov, Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Chair of Department, Ural University; Director, Institute of Ecology of RAS;  Place: Consultants Bureau (United States); Springer US: Springer New York, LLC. 233 Spring St., U.S.A.;

1990. Assessment of biotechnological destruction of anionic surface-active substances using biotests. Ostroumov S.A.,  Samoilenko L.S.       1990. Moscow University Biological Sciences Bulletin. Vol.45. No.3. P.72-76. [phytotests: Fagopyrum esculentum, Lepidium sativum, and others  ] Editor-in-Chief:  Prof.  Dr. M. P. Kirpichnikov, Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Chair, Department of Moscow University; Dean of Biological Faculty, Moscow University; Ex-Minister of Science, Russian Federation;  Place: Allerton Press (New York, N.Y., United States);   (Publisher: Allerton Press, Inc.; ISSN 0096-3925). Available in the U.S.A. in the Library of USDA (Catalog Agricola) as: Assessment of biotechnological destruction of anionic surface-active substances using biotesting. Author(s): Ostroumov, S.A. Samoilenko, L.S. Found In: Moscow University biological sciences bulletin. Moscow Univ Biol Sci Bull 1990. v. 45 (3) p. 72-76. Location: Current Licensed Electronic Resource Call Number: QH301.M6; http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Ostroumov%20S.&SL=None&Search_Code=NAME_&CNT=10&PID=yotPUaT-gCNhc1sbtPrlJbXonjQ5Z&BROWSE=1&HC=8&SID=2;

1990. Problems of assessment of biological activity of xenobiotics. Ostroumov S.A. 1990. — Moscow University Biological Sciences Bulletin, v. 45 (2): p.  26-32; 1990. [This paper provided a review and summary of many innovations made by the author in using plant seedlings as a phytotest to bioassay chemicals and samples of polluted water ] Editor-in-Chief:  Prof.  Dr. M. P. Kirpichnikov, Full Member (Academician), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Chair, Department of Moscow University; Dean of Biological Faculty, Moscow University; Ex-Minister of Science, Russian Federation;  Place: Allerton Press (New York, N.Y., United States);  (ISSN 0096-3925); Translated from: Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta.  Biologiia, v. 45 (2), 1990, p. 27-34. (QH301.M58). On the list of Bibliographies in the Quick Bibliography series of the National Agricultural Library (NAL, U.S.A.): http://www.nal.usda.gov/wqic/Bibliographies/qb9405.html; Available in the USA, in National Agricultural Library USDA (Catalog: Agricola) as Title: Problems of assessment of biological activity of xenobiotics. Found in: Moscow University Biological Sciences Bulletin. Moscow Univ Biol Sci Bull 1990. v. 45 (2) p. 26-32. Location: Current Licensed Electronic Resource Call Number: QH301.M6 ; Location: Stacks Call Number: QH301.M6 Status: Available; http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=5&ti=1,5&Search_Arg=Ostroumov%20s.&CNT=25&Search_Code=GKEY&PID=c4H72jCE_nIH9IazSZi4orRvxGhkX&SEQ=20120215023037&SID=1;

1988 Omul si Natura. De la probleme la solutii (Man and nature. From problems to solutions. Iablokov A.V. (Yablokov A.V.),  Ostroumov S.A., 1988. In: Ocrotirea Naturii. Traditii, Actualitate, Perspective. Editura “Dacia” (Publishing House Dacia ), Cluj-Napoca. 1988. P. 65-80. In Romanian language. [translated from the Russian serial edition: “Celovek i priroda. Ot problem k reseniiu”, in: «Celovek i priroda»,  nr. 7, 1982, pp. 8-63; the translated pages: p.45-63]. Editor: Prof. Dr. Bogdan Stugren. Place: Romania.

1979 Electrochemical proton gradient across the membranes of photophosphorylating bacteria Ostroumov S.A., Jasaitis A.A., Samuilov V.D.  Biomembranes , 1979, v.10, p. 209-233. Editor: Prof. Dr. L. Manson, Place: U.S.A.;

1978. Membrane potential and surface charge densities as `possible generalized regulators of membrane protein activities. Ostroumov S.A., Vorobiev L.N. 1978. Journal Theor. Biol. V. 75, P.289-297. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022519378903351; Co-Chief Editors: Dr. Denise Kirschner (University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA), Prof. Yoh Iwasa (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan), Lewis Wolpert [University College London (UCL), London, UK]. Publisher and Place: Elsevier, Netherlands.

1977. Participation of chloroplasts and mitochondria in virus reproduction and the evolution of the eukaryotic cell. Ostroumov S.A. 1977, J. Theor. Biol. vol. 67, p. 287-297. Co-Chief Editors: Dr. Denise Kirschner (University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA), Prof. Yoh Iwasa (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan), Lewis Wolpert [University College London (UCL), London, UK]. Publisher and Place: Elsevier, Netherlands.

1976. Reconstitution of biological molecular generators of electric current: Bacteriorhodopsin. Drachev L.A., Frolov V.N., Kaulen A.D., Liberman E.A., Ostroumov S.A., Plakunova V.G., Semenov A.Y., Skulachev V.P. 1976. J. Biol. Chem. 1976, vol. 251, p.7059-7065.  Editors-in-Chief Dr. Martha Fedor (Scripps Research Institute, USA) and Prof. Dr. Herbert Tabor (National Institutes of Health,  Bethesda, MD, USA). Publisher and  Place: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, United States.

1975. A study on the membrane potential and pH gradient in chromatophores and intact cells of photosynthetic bacteria. Barsky E.L., Bonch-Osmolovskaya E.A., Ostroumov S.A., Samuilov V.D., Skulachev V. P. 1975. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1975, 387: 388-395. doi:10.1016/0005-2728(75)90118-8.  Editor in Chief Prof. Dr. U. Brandt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany; Place: Elsevier, Netherlands.

1974. Direct measurement of electric current generation by cytochrome oxidase, H+-ATPase and bacteriorhodopsin. Drachev L. A., A. A. Jasaitis, A. D. Kaulen, A. A. Kondrashin, E. A. Liberman, I. B. Nemecek, S. A. Ostroumov, A. Yu. Semenov, V. P. Skulachev. 1974.  –Nature. 1974, 249 (5455): 321 – 324 [doi:10.1038/249321a0].  Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Philip Henry Montgomery Campbell. Place: London, United Kingdom.

1974. Electrogenesis by bacteriorhodopsin incorporated in a planar phospholipid membrane. Drachev L.A., Kaulen A.D., Ostroumov S.A., Skulachev V.P. 1974.  FEBS Letters. 1974, 39 (1): 43-45.  Managing Editor: Prof. Dr. Felix Wieland, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; Chair of Biochemistry Institute I; 1997 Chair of Biochemie-Zentrum Heidelberg (BZH);  Publisher:  Elsevier on behalf of FEBS (Federation of European Biochemical Societies).  Former Editors: S. P. Datta, Honorary Chairman, London, UK; G. Semenza, Honorary Chairman, Zurich, Switzerland; Place: Netherlands.

1973. Transhydrogenase-induced responses of carotenoids, bacteriochlorophyll and penetrating anions in Rhodospirillum rubrum chromatophores. Ostroumov S.A., Samuilov V.D., Skulachev V.P. 1973.  FEBS Letters. 1973, 31(1):27-30.  PMID:    4145457     [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE] doi:10.1016/0014-5793(73)80066-3. Managing Editor: Prof. Dr. Felix Wieland, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; Chair of Biochemistry Institute I; 1997 Chair of Biochemie-Zentrum Heidelberg (BZH);  Publisher:  Elsevier on behalf of FEBS (Federation of European Biochemical Societies).  Former Editors: S. P. Datta, Honorary Chairman, London, UK; G. Semenza, Honorary Chairman, Zurich, Switzerland; Place: Netherlands.

[book] Biological Effects of Surfactants. CRC Press. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, London, New York. 2006. 279 p., tab.  Bibliogr. on pages 203-243 and 250-253. Subject Index: p.255-279. ISBN 0-8493-2526-9. (Diploma of the Academy of Aquatic Sciences, awarded in 2006). The book summarizes the 20-year research done by the author and over 90 author’s research publications in many Russian and international editions as well as hundreds of publications of other scientists. The book contains new detailed information on the results of the author’s studies of the biological effects of synthetic surfactants and detergents on autotrophic and heterotrophic, prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. The chemicals included anionic, non-ionic and cationic surfactants, as well as several types of detergents. The freshwater and marine organisms studied included bacteria and cyanobacteria, algae, flagellates, seedlings of higher plants, and invertebrates (mollusks, annelids). Opinion of Dr. Steven C. McCutcheon about the book, from his Preface: “I am pleased to have this opportunity to comment on the scientific leadership of Sergei A. Ostroumov. The book is highly recommended to those who are involved in studying ecology and solving environmental problems”. – Steven C. McCutcheon, Ph.D., University of Georgia and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; President of the American Society of Ecological Engineering. [ Published reviews of this book (favorable): Toderas I.K. (Academician-Secretary of the Department of the Biological, Chemical, and Ecological Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova), Ermakov V.V. (Professor, head of the laboratory, Institute of Geochemistry, RAS). Novelty about ecological hazards of the chemicals that pollute aquatic environment. A review of the book: Ostroumov S.A. Biological Effects of Surfactants. (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, London, New York. 2006. 279 p.). – Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. Life Sciences (Buletinul Academiei de Stiinte a Moldovei. Stiintele Vietii). 2007, № 2,  с.169-172. Bibliogr. 10 refs. [“The book is a new significant step toward better knowledge and understanding the effects of chemical pollution on the biosphere” (p. 172)];  Prof. Petrosyan V.S. [Certified expert of the U.N. on toxicology] Review of the book: Biological Effects of Surfactants. CRC Press. Taylor & Francis. – Ecological Studies, Hazards, Solutions, 2007. vol. 12, p.117-119 (in English); Review of the book: Ostroumov S.A. Biological Effects of Surfactants. CRC Press. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, London, New York. 2006. 279 p. – Bulletin Samarskaya Luka. – 2007. – V. 16, № 4(22). – P. 864-867.  Bibliogr. 10 refs. http://www.ssc.smr.ru/media/journals/samluka/2007/16_4_22.pdf; Review of the book: Biological Effects of Surfactants. CRC Press. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, London, New York. 2006. 279 p. //  Problems of Biogeochemistry and Geochemical Ecology. 2007.  № 2 (4). p.108;  Review of the book: S.A.Ostroumov. Biological Effects of Surfactants (2006). – Ecologica, 2008. т.15, No. 51, p. 71-72. (YU ISSN 0354-3285; Belgrade; in English);  Ermakov V.V. Review of the book: : Ostroumov S.A. Biological Effects of Surfactants. CRC Press. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, London, New York. 2006. 279 p. – Toxicological Review [Toksikologicheskij Vestnik], 2009, No. 2, p. 40]  [monograph] Place: USA, UK.

 

[book] Introduction to Biochemical Ecology. 1986. Moscow. Moscow University Press. 176 p. Figures, tables. Bibliogr.: pp. 168-174.

[book] Introduction to Problems of Bio-chemical Ecology: Biotechnology, Agriculture, Environment. Telitchenko M.M., Ostroumov S.A.  1990. Nauka Press, Moscow. 288 p., fig., tab. Bibliogr.: pp. 256-282. ISBN 5-02-004062-2.

[translation of the book] Conservation Biology: An Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective (Ed. M. Soule, B. Wilcox) 1980, 395 p., fig., tab.; ISBN 0-87893-800-1. (Translated from English into Russian by Dr. S.A.Ostroumov). Russian edition: Moscow, Mir Press, 1983, 430 p., fig., tab.

[book] Nature Conservation: Problems and Prospects. Moscow, Lesprom Press, 1983. 272 p., fig., tab.  Bibliogr.: pp. 263-267. [In collaboration: Yablokov A.V., S.A.O.].

[book] Levels of Living Nature Conservation. 1985. Nauka Press. Moscow. 176 p., fig, tab. [In collaboration: Yablokov A.V., S.A.O.]. Editor: Academician N.G. Khrushchev, Member, Russian Academy of Sciences, Director, Institute of Developmental Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences.

[book] Conservation of Living Nature and Resources: Problems, Trends, Prospects. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Budapest. Springer. 1991. XII. 272 p., tab.  Bibliogr.: p. 227-248. Index of Authors: p. 249-251. Subject Index: p. 253-271. ISBN 3-540-52096-1; 0-387-52096-1. [In collaboration: Yablokov A.V., S.A.O.].

[book] Conservacion de la Naturaleza Viva. 1989. Vneshtorgizdat Press. Editorial Científico-Técnica. 238 p., fig., tab. Bibliogr.: p. 234-235. [ill.; 22 cm]. (in Spanish). [In collaboration: Yablokov A.V., S.A.O.].

[book] Opazvane na Zhivata Priroda (= Conservation of Living Nature). Zemizdat Press. Sofia. 1989. 192 p., fig., tab. [ill.; 21 cm]. (in Bulgarian). [In collaboration: Yablokov A., S.O.].

[book] Ostroumov, Sergei. Uvod v Biokhimichnata Ekologia (=Introduction to Biochemical Ecology). Nauka i Izkusstvo (Science and Art) Press. Sofia. 1990. 155 p., fig., tab.  Bibliogr.: pp.146-152 (in Bulgarian).

[book] Ochrana živé přírody: problémy a perspektivy (Conservation of Living Nature: Problems and Prospects). Praha. Academia. 1991. 345 p. 35 figures, 35 tables, 29 photographs. Bibliography on pages 229-307. Preface by Dr. Jaromir Pospisil (p. 5-8); ISBN 80-200-0021-6. Translated by Rudolf Orct.  In Czech; the book was recommended as a textbook for universities. [In collaboration: Jablokov A.V., S.A.O.].

[book] Conservation of the Animal World: Problems and Prospects. Moscow: Znanie Press,  1979, 64 p., fig., tab. Bibliogr. 19 refs. [Okhrana zhivotnogo mira–problemy i perspektivy. Moskva : Znanie, 1979. 64 p.: ill.; 21 cm.] [In collaboration: Yablokov A.V., S.A.O.].

[book] Ostroumow S. A. Wprowadzenie do ekologii biochemicznej. [=Introduction to Biochemical Ecology] Warszawa: Wydaw. Naukowe PWN [= PWN Press], 1992. 205 pages [translated from Russian by J. Kurylowicz = tł. z jęz. ros. Jerzy Kuryłowicz] ISBN-13: 9788301104542. ISBN-10: 8301104546. Format: 20,5/14,5 cm. Gewicht: 250 g. [in Polish language; the book is recommended and used at several Polish universities, including: The Technical University of Lodz (Politechnika Łódzka); The Jan Kochanowski University of Humanities and Sciences in Kielce; University of Wrocław; University in Bialymstok (Uniwersytet w Bialymstoku); University in Opole (Wydział Przyrodniczo – Techniczny Uniwersytetu Opolskiego); Akademia im. Jana Długosza, Instytut Chemii i Ochrony Środowiska, Częstochowa; Uniwersytet Kardynala Stefana Wyszynskiego, Warsaw; and other universities].

[book] Biological Effects of Surfactants in Connection with the Anthropogenic Impact on the Biosphere. MAX Press, Moscow. 2000. 116 p. Bibliogr.: p.75-83 and 103-113. ISBN 5-317-00040-8. Overview in Eng. 84-113 p., tab.  (Diploma of the Academy of Aquatic Sciences, awarded in 2006).

[book] Alexeev A.P., Ananiev V.I., Artyukhin E.N., …Dubinina V.G., …Nemova N.N., … Ostroumov S.A. et al.  Conservation, Reproduction and Sustainable Use of Biological Resources of the Hydrosphere. Moscow. 2001. 128 p.

[book] Biological Effects of Surfactants on Organisms. MAX Press, Moscow. 2001. 334 p., fig, tab. Bibliogr.: pp. 264-304 (716 refs.) ISBN 5-317-00323-7. From the Foreword written by Dr. S. McCutcheon (U.S. E.P.A.): “Sergei Ostroumov is pioneering the application of ecological and biological principles to redefine assimilative capacity, especially beyond the effects of bacteria… I look forward to developing … the emerging field of phytoremediation … based on general concepts that I see Dr. Ostroumov developing …”. [Published reviews of the book (favorable): Prof. Yakovlev S.V.  (Full Member, Russian Academy of Sciences) Review  // Vestnik of Russian Academy of Sciences,  2002. v.72, No.11, p. 1038-1047; Prof. Vasiliev О.F. (Full Member, Russian Academy of Sciences; Ex-Deputy Director, Institute of System Analysis, Austria)  Review  // Vestnik of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, 2002, v.2, No.3, p. 65; Prof. Braginsky L.P., Sirenko L.A.  Review// Hydrobiological Journal. 2003, v. 39, No. 3, p. 115-118.Prof. Rozenberg G.S. (Corresponding Member, Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Ecology of the Volga Basin, Russian Academy of Sciences)  Review  // Uspekhi Sovremennoi Biologii (Advances of Modern Biology). 2003.  No. 6. p. 618-619].

[book] Biotic Mechanism of Self-purification of Freshwater and Marine Water. (Ecological Studies, Hazards, Solutions, vol. 9) Мoscow: МAX Press. 2004. IV. 96 p., tab. Bibliogr. 59-85. Abstract in English. Section in English: p.53-58; about the author in English (p.90). ISBN 5-317-01120-5. [Diploma of the Academy of Aquatic Sciences, awarded in 2006; another Diploma to the book was awarded at the 7th International Conference ‘Aquatic Ecosystems, Organisms, Innovations’ (2005)]. [Published reviews of this book (favorable):  Prof. Malakhov V.V. (Member, Russian Academy of Sciences; Chair, Dept of Zoology of Moscow University) Review of the book (Ostroumov, S.A., 2004. Biotic mechanism of self-purification of freshwater and marine water. MAX Press, Moscow) // ESHS. 2004. Vol.10. P. 138; Prof. Rozenberg G.S. (Member, Russian Academy of Sciences; Director of the Institute of Ecology of Volga, RAS) Review of the book (Biotic mechanism of self-purification of freshwater and marine water, 2004) // Advances of Modern Biology. 2005. No.3. P. 317-318].

[book] Pollution, Self-purification and Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems. Мoscow: МAX Press.  2005.  100 p., tab.  Bibliogr.: 63-89. The book includes: Glossary. Extended English abstract (p. 57-62), a note about the author in English (p.97). ISBN 5-317-01213-9. (Diploma of the Academy of Aquatic Sciences, awarded in 2006).

[teaching aid] Ecology and Hydrobiology. Curricula of  Lecture Courses. Moscow. MAX Press. 2005. VI + 36 p. The collection of curricula of  8 lecture courses including: (1) Ecology; (2) Mechanisms of Interorganismal Interactions in Ecosystems; (3) General Biochemical Ecology; (4) Introduction to Biochemical Ecology of Drinking Water and Human Nutrition; (5) Quantitative and Theoretical Hydrobiology; (6) Water Self-Purification and Water Quality; (7) Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development; (8) Environmental Problems and Sustainability: New Course Curriculum (in English). The course on ecology is a classical course, the other courses are completely innovative. Of interest to professors and students in various fields of ecology, life science, environmental science, limnology, medicine, sciences on the biosphere, protection, and sustainable use of biological, aquatic biological and water resources. (Diploma of the Academy of Aquatic Sciences, awarded in 2006).

[teaching aid]: From Ecology to Health: in Search of  Recommendations on the Basis of Biochemical Human Ecology. Мoscow: MAX Press,   2006.  32 p. 11 Tables. Bibliogr. 34 refs.

[book] Hydrobiological Self-purification of Water: from Studies of Biological Mechanisms to Search of Ecotechnologies.  Мoscow:   Publishers «Oil and Gas» of the I.M.Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas,    2007. –   53 p.

[Book]: The biological control of the environment: bioindication and biotesting / Ed. O.P. Melekhova, E.I. Egorova. Moscow: Publishing Center «Academy» 2007, 288 pp. ISBN 978-5-7695-3560-4. [Co-authors: O.P. Melekhova, E.I. Egorova, T.I. Evseev, V.M. Glaser,  S.A.Geras’kin, Yu.K. Doronin, A.A. Kitashova, A.V. Kitashov, Y.P. Kozlov, I.A. Kondratyeva, G.V. Kossova, S.V. Kotelevtsev, D.N. Matorin, S.A.Ostroumov, S.I. Pogosyan, A.V. Smurov, G. N. Solovykh, A.L. Stepanov, N.A. Tushmalova, L.V. Tsatsenko]. Allowed by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation as a teaching aid for students enrolled in the educational direction “Biology” and biological disciplines.

[Collective monograph] Issues of Ecology and Hydrobiology / Editors I.K.Toderas, S.A.Ostroumov, E.I.Zubcova. Moscow, MAX Press. 2008. – 80 p. ISBN 978-5-317-02224-2. [=Проблемы экологии и гидробиологии / ред. И.К. Тодераш,  С.А. Остроумов, Е.И. Зубкова. Москва, МАКС пресс. 2008. – 80  с.] The collective monograph contains publications of the international team of authors on issues of ecology, biogeochemistry, water quality, and environmental monitoring. The main part of the book is formed by the innovative materials on the role of aquatic organisms in water self-purification and biogenic migration of elements. The book was published under the aegis of Moscow State University and the Moscow Society of Researchers of Nature (MOIP), the oldest public society in Russia.

[Book]: Aquatic organisms in water self-purification and biogenic migration of elements. Moscow. MAX Press. 2008. 200 p.  ISBN 978-5-317-02625-7. [Published review of this book (favorable):  Review: Ermakov V.V. (Prof., Head of Lab. of Biogeochem., Russ. Acad. Sci.) About the book S.A. Ostroumov «Aquatic organisms in self-purification of water and the biogenic migration of elements» // Water: Chemistry and Ecology. 2009. № 8. p.25-29. Bibliogr. 26 refs. ]

[Book]: The biological control of the environment: bioindication and biotesting / Ed. O.P. Melekhova, E.I. Sarapultseva. Moscow: Publishing Center «Academy» 2008, 288 pp. 2nd edition. ISBN 978-5-7695-5594-7. [Co-authors: O.P. Melekhova, E.I. Sarapultseva, T.I. Evseev, V.M. Glaser,  S.A.Geras’kin, Yu.K. Doronin, A.A. Kitashova, A.V. Kitashov, Y.P. Kozlov, I.A. Kondratyeva, G.V. Kossova, S.V. Kotelevtsev, D.N. Matorin, S.A.Ostroumov, S.I. Pogosyan, A.V. Smurov, G. N. Solovykh, A.L. Stepanov, N.A. Tushmalova, L.V. Tsatsenko]. Allowed by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation as a teaching aid for students enrolled in the educational direction “Biology” and biological disciplines.

Gusev M.V., Oleskin A.V., Kartasheva E.R., Kirovskaya T.A., Ostroumov S.A., Botvinko I.V., Lukyanov A.S., Kaganova Z.V., Yudin B.G., Shulga E.N., Sedov A.E. Terminological Dictionary (Thesaurus). Humanities-Oriented Biology. [=Terminologicheskij Slovar’ (Tezaurus). Gumanitarnaya Biologiya]. Moscow University Press. Moscow. 2009. p. 206-221. ISBN 978-5-211-05360-1.

Oleskin A.V., Kartasheva E.R., Botvinko I.V., Ostroumov S.A., Lukyanov A. S, Shulga E.N. Humanitarian biology and ecology: a teaching manual for secondary schools, high schools, colleges, universities / Ed. Prof. A.V.Oleskin. – Moscow: Moscow University Press, 2011. – 96 p.: Illustrated.  ISBN 978-5-211-06183-5; (Recommended by a section of Commission for Biological Education, CBE, of  the International Union of Biological Sciences, UNESCO);

Ermakov V.V., Karpova E.A., Korzh V.D., Ostroumov S.A. Innovative aspects of the biogeochemistry – Moscow: V.I.Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry, 2012 – 340 p. ISBN 978-5-905049-04-0. Editors: Prof. Dr. Fedonkin M. Full Member, Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Director, Institute of RAS; Dr. Ostroumov S.A. Place: Moscow, Russian Federation.

 

 

 

Amazing grace: nature’s machine to treat water, to purify water

Amazing grace: nature’s machine to treat water, to purify water

The series of publications authored by Dr. S.A. Ostroumov (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow University) discovered the ecosystem’s machinery that functions as a hi-tech mechanism to make water clear and pure, safe for human consumption. This was a secret of water quality and sustainability. This secret was discovered.  In the table given at some of the sites mentioned below, the reference to the key publications are given. Also, examples are given of the papers that cited  Dr. S. Ostroumov’s works.   These works were cited by experts and scientists from countries as diverse as U.S.A., France, U.K., Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Australia, Argentina, China, India…

See more detail at:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54504932/;
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/06/amazing-grace-natures-machine-to-treat.html;

International citation of research (Ecology, Environmental Sciences) conducted at Moscow State University, examples

International citation of  research (Ecology, Environmental Sciences) conducted at Moscow State University, examples.

http://sergostroumov.scienceblog.com/2012/05/16/100/ ‎

The achievement that was cited:

The ecological theory of how aquatic ecosystem and the biological community function toward improving water quality (both in freshwater and in seawater) was formulated in the well-cited paper of a scientist of Moscow University. This theory, inter alia,  discovered and analyzed – to a better degree than it was done before – the multi-aspect role of aquatic organisms that are filter-feeders. This achievement was used by the authors of the new paper co-authored by scientists of Poland, China, Korea. They used the theory to better analyze their new data on marine bivalve mollusk, marine mussels Mytilus.

Citation of a paper authored by a scientist (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University) in the article (Poland, China, Korea):

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http://famous-scientists.ru/3732/

@sergeiost

http://twitter.com/Sergeiost

**Ecological Engineering, In Press, doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2011.10.017 ;

Testing the usability of sea mussel (Mytilus sp.) for the improvement of seawater quality—An experimental study.

 

Renata Brzozowska a, Zhenghong Sui b, Kyoung Ho Kang c,

Affiliation:

[a Department of Environment Protection Engineering, Warmia and Mazury University in Olsztyn, Prawochenskiego St. 1, 10-957 Olsztyn, Poland; b Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, People’s Republic of China; c Division of Marine Technology, Chonnam National University, Dundeok-dong, San 96-1, Yeosu-city, 550-749 Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea; Abstract:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925857411003387

From the text: … Filtering processes create a possibility of removing chemical compounds, such as organic compounds, heavy metals and nutrients, from water ( [Todd and Josephson, 1996] , [Ostroumov, 2005] , [Zhou et al., 2006] and [Elliott et al.,2008] ). …].

The publication which was cited:

Ostroumov S. A. On the Multifunctional Role of the Biota in the Self-Purification of Aquatic Ecosystems . – Russian Journal of Ecology, 2005. Vol. 36, No. 6, P. 414-420. http://www.scribd.com/doc/45572968;

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49131150;

[on the journal: http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/journal/11184];

 

Other examples of citation of scientific research that was conducted at Moscow University by this scientist are given below.

** Scholars of these over 300 institutions (worldwide) have cited the publications (biology, ecology, environment) authored by this researcher: http://www.scribd.com/doc/60225505;

**Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Biology, updated; Citation of the works in the U.S.A. http://www.scribd.com/doc/79577206

**World-wide citing: www.scribd.com/doc/54504932;

**In Russian: http://www.scribd.com/doc/80564027/;

** Citation. The book ‘Biological Effects of Surfactants’ was cited by scientists of Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Austria, Slovakia, Germany, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Denmark, United Kingdom, Poland and other countries: www.scribd.com/doc/82403759/;

**Pictures of those who cited the publications authored and co-authored by this scientist – the authors and journals: http://www.scribd.com/doc/85161809/;

** List of many of the papers that cited:

https://sites.google.com/site/ostroumovsergei/publications-that-cited-saostroumov

KEY WORDS:

Citation, Ecology, S.A.Ostroumov, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Ecological Engineering, Department of Environment Protection Engineering, Warmia and Mazury University, Olsztyn, Poland, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China; Division of Marine Technology, Chonnam National University, Dundeok-dong, Yeosu-city, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea; sea mussel, Mytilus, seawater quality,

 

 

Sum:Innovations, discoveries: science, environmental science, ecology, life sciences: some recent blog posts and sites.

Innovations, discoveries: science, environmental science, ecology, life sciences.

These are some recent blog posts and sites. Languages: English, Russian.

** New development, environmental science: A new website (group) on this book and the new area of science, biochemical ecology:

http://www.facebook.com/VvedenieVBiohimiceskuuEkologiu;

**innovative approach in the paper: Inhibitory analysis of top-down control: new keys to studying eutrophication, algal blooms, and water self-purification. http://www.scribd.com/doc/52598579/; http://www.citeulike.org/blog/ATP/19016;

**Cited the Paper:  inhibitory Analysis of Top-down Control. new Keys to Studying Eutrophication…  :  http://www.scribd.com/doc/57034212/Cited-the-Paper-ostroumov-inhibitory-Analysis-of-Top-down-Control-new-Keys-to-Studying-Eutrophication-full-text-online-www-scribd-com-doc-52598579

**these  > 307 institutions and universities cited publications (biology, ecology, environment) on research conducted at Moscow State University on selected issues (examples)     http://www.scribd.com/doc/60225505/

**Впервые установлена способность ранее не изученных видов макрофитов снижать загрязнение воды  четырьмя тяжелыми металлами одновременно   http://ru.scribd.com/doc/76703422/

**A new area of science, a new scientific discipline: biochemical ecology – Биохимическая экология. Biochemical Ecology: http://bit.ly/JE2xav;

**Коротко об авторе: on the author: http://famous-scientists.ru/3732

**Welcome to a new group: Friends of Sergei and his research – Ecology, Environmental Science, Biology

http://www.facebook.com/groups/389138347792330; http://t.co/rOc98k1E

**lots of new data on innovation in environmental sciences are here:

http://5bio5.blogspot.com/

**Environmental sciences, ecology, biology: formatted list of publications, with sites http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/05/environmental-sciences-ecology-biology_14.html

**Environmental sciences, ecology, biology: scientific results obtained at  Moscow State University: http://www.scribd.com/doc/93423426; http://www.scribd.com/doc/93423426/Environmental-sciences-ecology-biology-scientific-results-obtained-at-M-V-Lomonosov-Moscow-State-University-publications-aquatic-ecosystems

** Paralytic shellfish toxin studies, Philippines: university scientists cited the research on ecology conducted at Moscow: http://www.scribd.com/doc/93754665/Paralytic-Shellfish-Toxin-Studies-philippines;

http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/05/philippines-university-scientists-cited.html;

a new scientific concept: biomachinery:

http://sergostroumov.scienceblog.com/2012/05/04/new-conceptual

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http://sergostroumov.scienceblog.com/2012/05/05/a-new-way-of-mining-gold-from-water-environment-nanomaterials-water-gold-know-how-using-biological/

** new conceptualization and terminology

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

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http://sergostroumov.scienceblog.com/2012/05/03/new-scientific-terminology-exometabolism/

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A new page and site on Facebook, for Chinese-speaking scholars:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chinese-speaking-scientists-and-students-%E7%92%B0%E5%A2%83%E7%A7%91%E5%AD%B8%E7%94%9F%E7%89%A9%E5%AD%B8/307815159293017

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A new page and site on Facebook, for French-speaking scholars:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/French-speaking-scientists-Environment-Life-Science/293532834071760

 

Summary, Innovations, discoveries, science, environmental science, ecology, life sciences, recent, blog posts, sites,

New conceptualization and terminology proposed: Biomachinery. Cyborgs vs. Biomachinery

New conceptualization and terminology proposed: Biomachinery. Cyborgs vs. Biomachinery.

In 1998, the author invented the term ‘biomachinery’, and published it in 1999 (see the second part of this file). Now it is clear that the term was useful and survived the test of time. This term means a kind of hybrid of two things: biological and non-biological ones. To a degree, this is relevant to what is called Cyborg.  Examples of Cyborgs are Terminators and  The Borg from Star Trek.

It is useful to look at what is written about Cyborgs in Wikipedia:

A cyborg, short for “cybernetic organism”, is a being with both biological and artificial (e.g. electronic, mechanical or robotic) parts. The term was coined in 1960 when Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline used it in an article about the advantages of self-regulating human-machine systems in outer space.   …… Fictional cyborgs are portrayed as a synthesis of organic and synthetic parts….

Fictional cyborgs may be represented as visibly mechanical (e.g. the Cybermen in the Doctor Who franchise or The Borg from Star Trek); or as almost indistinguishable from humans (e.g. the Terminators from the Terminator films, the “Human” Cylons from the re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica etc.)

The 1970s television series The Six Million Dollar Man featured one of the most famous fictional cyborgs, referred to as a bionic man. … Cyborgs are also often portrayed with physical or mental abilities far exceeding a human counterpart (military forms may have inbuilt weapons, among other things).

[The end of the cited text from Wikipedia].

Cyborgs in films are sometimes very bad guys.

Very often they look like humans.

These two characteristics make the idea of Cyborg very different from the idea of biomachinery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

Biomachinery is not associated with any specific or familiar form of body; and biomachinery is not doing any harm, on the contrary, it is doing a very good thing – upgrading water quality, purifying water, – which is one of key ecosystem services to benefit mankind.

 

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The following is a more scientific material on biomachinery.

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

New conceptualization and terminology in science of ecology: Biomachinery (the author is Dr. Sergei  A. Ostroumov, Moscow State University)

Новый термин. В научную терминологию введен новый термин: Biomachinery (автор термина: д.б.н. С.А. Остроумов, МГУ им. М.В.Ломоносова)

How the term ‘biomachinery’ was introduced to environmental and biological science: it happened in 1999. See the abstract: Ostroumov S.A. Integrity-oriented approach to ecological biomachinery for self-purification and bioremediation in aquatic ecosystems. – Limnology and Oceanography: Navigating into the Next Century. February 1-5, 1999, Santa Fe, New Mexico. ASLO (American Society of Limnology and Oceanography), Waco, TX. 1999. P. 134;

Dr. S.A. Ostroumov initiated and chaired the session “Ecosystems as Hi-Tech Water Purification Biomachinery” at the ASLO Meeting Limnology and Oceanography: Navigating into the Next Century. February 1-5, 1999, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the U.S.A.; it is the first time that he introduced the scientific term ‘biomachinery’.

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The examples of the author’s publications where the term ‘biomachinery’ was used and discussed in a number of publications authored by S.A.Ostroumov – the list of the publications is presented below.

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/82868065/Bio-Machinery-for-Maintaining-Water-Quality-and-Natural-Water-Self-purification-in-Marine-and-

 

S.A. Ostroumov. Biomachinery for maintaining water quality and natural water self-purification in marine and estuarine systems: elements of a qualitative theory. – International Journal of Oceans and Oceanography, ISSN 0973-2667, Vol.1, No.1 (2006), pp. 111-118 © Research India Publications; http://www.ripublication.com/ijoo.htm; [Laboratory of Physico-Chemistry of Biomembranes, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Vorob’evy Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia].

Abstract: Fundamental elements are formulated for a qualitative theory of the multi-functional (polyfunctional) role of the biota in maintaining self-purification and water quality in aquatic ecosystems. The elements of the theory covers the following: (1) sources of energy for the mechanisms of self-purification; (2) the main functional blocks of the system of self-purification; (3) the list of the main processes that are involved; (4) analysis of the degree of participation of the main large taxons; (5) degree of reliability and the main mechanisms providing the reliability; (6)regulation of the processes; (7) the response of the system towards the external influences(man-made impacts); (8) the analogy between ecosystems and a bioreactor; and (9)conclusions relevant to the practice of biodiversity conservation. In support of the theory, results are given of the author’s experiments which demonstrated the ability of some pollutants (surfactants, detergents, and some others) to inhibit the water filtration activity of marine filter-feeders (namely, the bivalve mollusks  mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis, Mytilus edulis, and oysters Crassostrea gigas). Key words: Ecosystems, pollution, water quality, water self-purification, filter-feeders. Abbreviations: LD – liquid detergent; SD- synthetic detergent; SDS – sodiumdodecylsulphate; TDTMA – tetradecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide;

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/61779321/8-Legendary-discoveries-biomachinery; New Discovery: BIOMACHINERY.

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http://www.citeulike.org/user/ATP/article/9925779

 

Ostroumov S.A. Filter-feeders as part of ecological biomachinery to purify water // Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 2005. Vol. 29/2 (Stuttgart,E.Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung), p.1072-1075; Fundamental key innovation. The author introduced a new fundamental concept in the science of hydrobiology and aquatic ecology: biomachinery of water self-purification. The aquatic invertebrates that are filter-feeders constitute a vital part of the complex of aquatic organisms which are involved in the biomachinery of improving water quality. http://www.schweizerbart.de/pubs/books/es/verhandlun-167002902-desc.html; http://www.borntraeger-cramer.de/publications/detail/isbn/9783510540662/XXIX-Congress-Lahti-Finland-8—14-August-2004; http://www.springerlink.com/index/R9PTJEQ5FK8VLA6M.pdf ; http://blog.researchgate.net/masterblog/619_Vital_role_of_aquatic_organisms_in_improving_water_quality.

How the term ‘biomachinery’ was introduced to science: it happened in 1999. See the abstract: Ostroumov S.A. Integrity-oriented approach to ecological biomachinery for self-purification and bioremediation in aquatic ecosystems. – Limnology and Oceanography: Navigating into the Next Century. February 1-5, 1999, Santa Fe, New Mexico. ASLO, Waco, TX. 1999. P. 134; Dr. S.A. Ostroumov initiated and chaired the session “Ecosystems as Hi-Tech Water Purification Biomachinery” at the ASLO Meeting Limnology and Oceanography: Navigating into the Next Century. February 1-5, 1999, Santa Fe, New Mexico; it is the first time that he introduced the scientific term ‘biomachinery’.

http://www.citeulike.org/user/ATP/article/9925779

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Book: Ostroumov S.A. Aquatic organisms in water self-purification. Moscow. Max-Press, 2008, 200 p. (The Russian version of the title: Гидробионты в самоочищении вод). Chapter 1 was written in English. On page 4, the title of Chapter 1 is: “Theory of biocontrol of water quality and biomachinery of self-purification”.

The book got excellent evaluations in the published reviews:

http://sites.google.com/site/ostroumovsa/—/———–2008—–2009;

http://www.scribd.com/doc/74988105/

The list of the reviews (some of them in Russian):

Зимнюков В.А. Рецензия на книгу Остроумова С.А. «Гидробионты в самоочищении вод и биогенной миграции элементов» // Водное  хозяйство России: проблемы, технологии, управление.  2009. № 1. С. 103-106. ISSN 1999-4508. http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=12957127     ( = Zimnyukov V.A. Review of the book: S.A. Ostroumov. Gidrobionty v samoochischenii vod i biogennoy migratsii elementov // Water Sector of Russia: Problems, Technologies, Management (=Vodnoe  Khozyaystvo Rossii. 2009. № 1. p.103-106).

Капица А.П. Kapitsa A.P.  (член-корр. РАН) Review of the book:  S.A. Ostroumov. Aquatic organisms in water self-purification and biogenic migration of elements. Moscow. MAX Press. 2008. 200 p. – Ecologica, 2009. V.16 (53). P.8. на английском языке.

Розенберг Г.С. (чл.-корр. РАН, директор Института экологии Волжского бассейна РАН) Рецензия на кн.: С. А. Остроумов. Гидробионты в самоочищении вод и биогенной миграции элементов //  Биология моря.  2009. том 35, No. 3, С. 237-238. [ = Rozenberg G.S. Book Review: S. A. Ostroumov. Gidrobionty v samoochishchenii vod i biogennoj migracii elementov //  Biologiya morya (Russian Journal of Marine Biology).  2009. Vol. 35 (3). P. 237-238].

Ермаков В.В. (профессор, Заслуженный деятель науки РФ, зав. лабораторией Института РАН) О книге С.А.Остроумова «Гидробионты в самоочищении вод и биогенной миграции элементов» // Вода: химия и экология. 2009. №8. с.25-29. Библиогр. 26 назв. Аннотация: Представлена новая теория биомеханизмов самоочищения воды, изложенная в книге доктора биологических наук С.А.Остроумова «Гидробионты в самоочищении вод и биогенной миграции элементов». Гидробионты (водные организмы) активно участвуют в процессах, ведущих к очищению воды. В них участвуют почти все группы живых организмов, что анализируется в статье с различных сторон. При разработке теории были использованы результаты опытов автора, изучавшего воздействие поллютантов на живые организмы. Изложенная теория служит инновационной основой для создания новых экотехнологий очищения воды и повышения ее качества с использованием водных организмов.

Подробнее об авторе книги: http://www.famous-scientists.ru/3732/;

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Элементы теории биоконтроля качества воды: фактор экологической безопасности источников водоснабжения (=Elements of the theory of biocontrol of water quality: a factor in the ecological safety of the sources of water = Elements of the theory of biocontrol of water quality: the factor in the ecological safety of the sources of water]) //  Химическая и биологическая безопасность (= Chemical and Biological Safety). 2008. No. 5-6. с.36-39. Библиогр. 22 назв. [http://www.cbsafety.ru/rus/saf_41_3.asp; http://scipeople.com/publication/67386/] (D:\_     готовить в печать\Химическая и биологическая безопасность\о моей книгеГидроб2008\_В хим био безоп4 о книгеГидробионты2008с путем.doc). Представлена новая теория биомеханизмов самоочищения воды, изложенная в книге автора «Гидробионты в самоочищении вод и биогенной миграции элементов» (М.: МАКС Пресс, 2008,  200 с.). Гидробионты активно участвуют в процессах, ведущих к очищению воды. В них участвуют почти все группы живых организмов, что анализируется в статье с различных сторон. При разработке теории были использованы результаты опытов автора, изучавшего воздействие поллютантов на живые организмы. Изложенная теория служит инновационной основой для создания новых экотехнологий очищения воды и повышения ее качества с использованием водных организмов. Представлены и обоснованы новые основные концепции, в том числе понятия и термины: biomachinery, экзометаболизм, экологические хеморегуляторы, экологические хемомедиаторы, макросимбиотические системы и другие. Новые  результаты автора по выявлению свойства синтетических поверхностно-активных веществ (ПАВ) подавлять фильтрацию воды двустворчатыми моллюсками были признаны научным открытием и отмечены Дипломом за научное открытие № 274. Теория вносит вклад в научные основы укрепления экологической безопасности водных экосистем (водоемов и водотоков), которые служат источниками водоснабжения.

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SUMMARY. As it was mentioned above, the term ‘biomachinery’ was a part of the name for a scientific session that was initiated, organized, and chaired by Dr. S.Ostroumov in 1999 in the U.S.A. It was mentioned in Internet and immediately attracted attention. Many people liked it. Now this word became a new part of English language. Now this word is in use.

Biomachinery is the term that the author, Dr. S.A.O., applied to better describe how ecosystems, especially aquatic ecosystem, function. The combined effect of collective functioning of many aquatic organisms was described in detail in his scientific publications. As a result of this team activity of water living creatures, water self-purification occurs. The efficient functioning of the aquatic biota (and ecosystem as a whole) has amazing similarity to hi-tech multi-component machinery. On this basis, the author proposed the term ‘biomachinery’, and applied it to characterize the functioning of aquatic ecosystems toward improving water quality.

Addition:

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;

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New conceptualization and terminology in science of ecology: Biomachinery (author of the term: a scientist at M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University)

New terminology in science: Biomachinery (the author is a scientist at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Новый термин. В научную терминологию введен новый термин: Biomachinery (автор термина: научный сотрудник МГУ им. М.В.Ломоносова)

How the term ‘biomachinery’ was introduced to environmental and biological science:

The story started in 1998.

In 1998, Dr. S.A. Ostroumov initiated and later chaired the session “Ecosystems as Hi-Tech Water Purification Biomachinery” at the ASLO Meeting Limnology and Oceanography: Navigating into the Next Century. February 1-5, 1999, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the U.S.A.; it is the first time that he introduced the scientific term ‘biomachinery’.  Publication: See the abstract: Ostroumov S.A. Integrity-oriented approach to ecological biomachinery for self-purification and bioremediation in aquatic ecosystems. – Limnology and Oceanography: Navigating into the Next Century. February 1-5, 1999, Santa Fe, New Mexico. ASLO (American Society of Limnology and Oceanography), Waco, TX. 1999. P. 134;

The term is clear in its 2-part structure and almost self-explanatory. It conveys the idea of a mix of two things in mechanisms of functioning of ecological systems: one thing is individual biological organisms, and the second thing is their complex self-organization into a well-structured and efficient system so that  the entire system functions as a hi-tech machine.

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The examples of the author’s publications where the term ‘biomachinery’ was used and discussed in a number of publications authored by S.A.Ostroumov – the list of the publications is presented below.

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/82868065/Bio-Machinery-for-Maintaining-Water-Quality-and-Natural-Water-Self-purification-in-Marine-and-

 

S.A. Ostroumov. Biomachinery for maintaining water quality and natural water self-purification in marine and estuarine systems: elements of a qualitative theory. – International Journal of Oceans and Oceanography, ISSN 0973-2667, Vol.1, No.1 (2006), pp. 111-118 © Research India Publications; http://www.ripublication.com/ijoo.htm;

[Laboratory of Physico-Chemistry of Biomembranes, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Vorob’evy Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia]

Abstract: Fundamental elements are formulated for a qualitative theory of the multi-functional (polyfunctional) role of the biota in maintaining self-purification and water quality in aquatic ecosystems. The elements of the theory covers the following: (1) sources of energy for the mechanisms of self-purification; (2) the main functional blocks of the system of self-purification; (3) the list of the main processes that are involved; (4) analysis of the degree of participation of the main large taxons; (5) degree of reliability and the main mechanisms providing the reliability; (6)regulation of the processes; (7) the response of the system towards the external influences(man-made impacts); (8) the analogy between ecosystems and a bioreactor; and (9)conclusions relevant to the practice of biodiversity conservation. In support of the theory, results are given of the author’s experiments which demonstrated the ability of some pollutants (surfactants, detergents, and some others) to inhibit the water filtration activity of marine filter-feeders (namely, the bivalve mollusks  mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis, Mytilus edulis, and oysters Crassostrea gigas). Key words: Ecosystems, pollution, water quality, water self-purification, filter-feeders. Abbreviations: LD – liquid detergent; SD- synthetic detergent; SDS – sodiumdodecylsulphate; TDTMA – tetradecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide;

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/61779321/8-Legendary-discoveries-biomachinery; New Discovery: BIOMACHINERY.

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http://www.citeulike.org/user/ATP/article/9925779

 

Ostroumov S.A. Filter-feeders as part of ecological biomachinery to purify water // Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 2005. Vol. 29/2 (Stuttgart,E.Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung), p.1072-1075; Fundamental key innovation. The author introduced a new fundamental concept in the science of hydrobiology and aquatic ecology: biomachinery of water self-purification. The aquatic invertebrates that are filter-feeders constitute a vital part of the complex of aquatic organisms which are involved in the biomachinery of improving water quality. http://www.schweizerbart.de/pubs/books/es/verhandlun-167002902-desc.html; http://www.borntraeger-cramer.de/publications/detail/isbn/9783510540662/XXIX-Congress-Lahti-Finland-8—14-August-2004; http://www.springerlink.com/index/R9PTJEQ5FK8VLA6M.pdf ; http://blog.researchgate.net/masterblog/619_Vital_role_of_aquatic_organisms_in_improving_water_quality.

How the term ‘biomachinery’ was introduced to science: it happened in 1999. See the abstract: Ostroumov S.A. Integrity-oriented approach to ecological biomachinery for self-purification and bioremediation in aquatic ecosystems. – Limnology and Oceanography: Navigating into the Next Century. February 1-5, 1999, Santa Fe, New Mexico. ASLO, Waco, TX. 1999. P. 134; Dr. S.A. Ostroumov initiated and chaired the session “Ecosystems as Hi-Tech Water Purification Biomachinery” at the ASLO Meeting Limnology and Oceanography: Navigating into the Next Century. February 1-5, 1999, Santa Fe, New Mexico; it is the first time that he introduced the scientific term ‘biomachinery’.

http://www.citeulike.org/user/ATP/article/9925779

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Book: Ostroumov S.A. Aquatic organisms in water self-purification. Moscow. Max-Press, 2008, 200 p. (the Russian version of the title: Гидробионты в самоочищении вод). Chapter 1 was written in English. On page 4, the title of Chapter 1 is: “Theory of biocontrol of water quality and biomachinery of self-purification”.

The book got excellent evaluations in the published reviews:

http://sites.google.com/site/ostroumovsa/—/———–2008—–2009;

http://www.scribd.com/doc/74988105/

The list of the reviews:

Зимнюков В.А. Рецензия на книгу Остроумова С.А. «Гидробионты в самоочищении вод и биогенной миграции элементов» // Водное  хозяйство России: проблемы, технологии, управление.  2009. № 1. С. 103-106. ISSN 1999-4508. http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=12957127     ( = Zimnyukov V.A. Review of the book: S.A. Ostroumov. Gidrobionty v samoochischenii vod i biogennoy migratsii elementov // Water Sector of Russia: Problems, Technologies, Management (=Vodnoe  Khozyaystvo Rossii. 2009. № 1. p.103-106).

Капица А.П. Kapitsa A.P.  (член-корр. РАН) Review of the book:  S.A. Ostroumov. Aquatic organisms in water self-purification and biogenic migration of elements. Moscow. MAX Press. 2008. 200 p. – Ecologica, 2009. V.16 (53). P.8. на английском языке.

Розенберг Г.С. (чл.-корр. РАН, директор Института экологии Волжского бассейна РАН) Рецензия на кн.: С. А. Остроумов. Гидробионты в самоочищении вод и биогенной миграции элементов //  Биология моря.  2009. том 35, No. 3, С. 237-238. [ = Rozenberg G.S. Book Review: S. A. Ostroumov. Gidrobionty v samoochishchenii vod i biogennoj migracii elementov //  Biologiya morya (Russian Journal of Marine Biology).  2009. Vol. 35 (3). P. 237-238].

Ермаков В.В. (профессор, Заслуженный деятель науки РФ, зав. лабораторией Института РАН) О книге С.А.Остроумова «Гидробионты в самоочищении вод и биогенной миграции элементов» // Вода: химия и экология. 2009. №8. с.25-29. Библиогр. 26 назв. Аннотация: Представлена новая теория биомеханизмов самоочищения воды, изложенная в книге доктора биологических наук С.А.Остроумова «Гидробионты в самоочищении вод и биогенной миграции элементов». Гидробионты (водные организмы) активно участвуют в процессах, ведущих к очищению воды. В них участвуют почти все группы живых организмов, что анализируется в статье с различных сторон. При разработке теории были использованы результаты опытов автора, изучавшего воздействие поллютантов на живые организмы. Изложенная теория служит инновационной основой для создания новых экотехнологий очищения воды и повышения ее качества с использованием водных организмов.

Подробнее об авторе книги: http://www.famous-scientists.ru/3732/;

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Элементы теории биоконтроля качества воды: фактор экологической безопасности источников водоснабжения (=Elements of the theory of biocontrol of water quality: a factor in the ecological safety of the sources of water = Elements of the theory of biocontrol of water quality: the factor in the ecological safety of the sources of water]) //  Химическая и биологическая безопасность (= Chemical and Biological Safety). 2008. No. 5-6. с.36-39. Библиогр. 22 назв. [http://www.cbsafety.ru/rus/saf_41_3.asp; http://scipeople.com/publication/67386/] (D:\_     готовить в печать\Химическая и биологическая безопасность\о моей книгеГидроб2008\_В хим био безоп4 о книгеГидробионты2008с путем.doc). Представлена новая теория биомеханизмов самоочищения воды, изложенная в книге автора «Гидробионты в самоочищении вод и биогенной миграции элементов» (М.: МАКС Пресс, 2008,  200 с.). Гидробионты активно участвуют в процессах, ведущих к очищению воды. В них участвуют почти все группы живых организмов, что анализируется в статье с различных сторон. При разработке теории были использованы результаты опытов автора, изучавшего воздействие поллютантов на живые организмы. Изложенная теория служит инновационной основой для создания новых экотехнологий очищения воды и повышения ее качества с использованием водных организмов. Представлены и обоснованы новые основные концепции, в том числе понятия и термины: biomachinery, экзометаболизм, экологические хеморегуляторы, экологические хемомедиаторы, макросимбиотические системы и другие. Новые  результаты автора по выявлению свойства синтетических поверхностно-активных веществ (ПАВ) подавлять фильтрацию воды двустворчатыми моллюсками были признаны научным открытием и отмечены Дипломом за научное открытие № 274. Теория вносит вклад в научные основы укрепления экологической безопасности водных экосистем (водоемов и водотоков), которые служат источниками водоснабжения.

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As it was mentioned above, the term ‘biomachinery’ was a part of the name for a scientific session that was initiated, organized, and chaired by Dr. S.Ostroumov in 1999 in the U.S.A. It was mentioned in Internet and immediately attracted attention. Many people liked it. Now this word became a new part of English language. Now this word is in use.

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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;

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Discovery of the key role of organisms that filter water and make it clear

Venus, or Aphrodite, goddess of love, Environment, Water and Ecology. Environmental role of synthetic surfactants

Will wars of future be related to modern science and theories of ecology? Key issues, water quality: scientific fundamentals, achievements, discoveries, bibliography

Discoveries, innovations in environmental sciences, ecology

New facts on hazardous biological and toxic effects of surfactants and detergents: paradigm shifted

ecological, discoveries, 2012, science, terminological,

KEY WORDS: biomachinery, new terminology, environmental sciences, biology,  Moscow State University, S.A.Ostroumov, новый термин, науки об окружающей среде, экология, МГУ