Updtd: ResearchGate: Environmental science 20 top papers. Water, ecology. Short annotations, links; Tags: Environmental, science, protection, conservation, papers, water, ecology, annotations, links, toxicology, ecotoxicology, hazard assessment, bioassay, aquatic, ecosystems, pollution, surfactants, self-purification 5bio5.blogspot/2015/01/updtd-researchgate-environmental.html previous draft, link: 5bio5.blogspot.ru/2014/04/enviro-sci-20-papers-water-ecology.html LIST OF THE KEY PUBLICATIONS WITH ANNOTATIONS AND Web-SITES, THE TEXTS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE FREE: Evidence of merit: CITATION, BOOKMARKED, UPVOTED, DOWNLOADED articles: 5bio5.blogspot/2014/04/evidence-of-merit-articles-on-enviro.html Ecology, top publications / articles that rank 1st - 3rd among other papers of a similar age in the journals where they were published. Ecology, water ecology, protection of environment, and other key words. These publications are among top papers on environmental sciences, according to altmetric score. 5bio5.blogspot/2015/01/top-articlesthey-rank-1st-3rd-among.html 1. Innovative conceptualization of ecosystem’s biomachinery (a new scientific term that was proposed by the author; it means ecological mechanisms that include biological communities and biodiversity) which improves water quality. The innovative experimental data analysis, concepts, and generalizations in this article provide the fundamental elements of the new qualitative theory of biocontrol of water quality in a systematized form. The theory covers water self-purification in freshwater and marine ecosystems. The theory is supported by the results of the author’s experimental studies of the effects exerted by some chemical pollutants including synthetic surfactants, detergents, and other xenobiotics on aquatic organisms. The new fundamental conceptualization provides a basis for remediation of polluted aquatic ecosystems including purification of water bodies and streams, and briefly present the qualitative theory of the self-purification mechanism of aquatic ecosystems, phytoremediation, and other types of technologies. Biocontrol of Water Quality: Multifunctional Role of Biota in Water Self-Purification. – Russian Journal of General Chemistry, 2010, Vol. 80, No. 13, pp. 2754–2761; Abstract: chemeurope/en/publications/211554/biocontrol-of-water-quality-multifunctional-role-of-biota-in-water-self-purification.html; Abstract: scribd/doc/75101299/ Full text: https://researchgate.net/publication/227303635_Biocontrol_of_water_quality_Multifunctional_role_of_biota_in_water_self-purification ; scribd/doc/49131150/; scribd/doc/73175163/; DOI: 10.1134/S1070363210130086; 2. Review of ecotoxicology of nanomaterials. Ostroumov S.A., Kotelevtsev S.V. Toxicology of nanomaterials and environment. - Ecologica. 2011, vol. 18, issue 61, pp. 3-10; scribd/doc/58103094/; scipeople.ru/publication/102825/; 3. A new conceptualization which is based on his suggestion to identify a new type of matter in the biosphere. The author called it «ex-living matter» (ELM). The author discusses his experiments (together with his co-authors) which provide the factual foundation to this conceptualization; Some issues of chemico-biotic interactions and the new in the teaching on the biosphere / series: Ecological Studies, Hazards, Solutions. Volume 17. Moscow, MAX Press, 2011. – 20 p. ISBN 978-5-317-03710-9; scipeople.ru/publication/102875/; scribd/doc/57818520/; 4. A review of the author’s studies of aquatic organisms, mainly marine and freshwater invertebrates that are filter-feeders - biological filters - as an important part of the biosphere and hydrosphere. The studies were conducted in laboratories of four countries. PUBLISHED IN: Science in Russia. 2009. № 2. P. 30-36. [The journal ‘Science in Russia’ is published by the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences, both in English and in Russian; Nauka Publishers, Moscow; ISSN 0869-7078. ras.ru, ©Russian Academy of Sciences Presidium.] 5bio5.blogspot.ru/2014/04/biological-filters-are-important-part.html https://researchgate.net/publication/261554265_Biological_filters_are_an_important_part_of_the_biosphere?ev=prf_pub 5. This paper formulated a fundamentally new solution to the problem of selecting criteria for identification and assessing environmental hazards of chemical pollutants, toxicants; the paper explains why the currently accepted set of criteria is non-efficient and leads to mistakes; Criteria of ecological hazards due to anthropogenic effects on the biota: searching for a system. - Dokl Biol Sci (Doklady Biological Sciences). 2000; 371: 204-206. Doklady Biological Sciences: ISSN PRINT: 0012-4966. ISSN ONLINE: 1608-3105/. https://researchgate.net/publication/259579814_Criteria-of-Ecological-Hazards-Due-to-Anthropogenic-Effects-on-the-Biota-Searching-for-a-System ; sites.google/site/2000dbs371p204criteria/; scribd/doc/49088234; Explanation of Why this paper is useful: scribd/doc/60891549/; 6. According to experts in aquatic ecology, this paper gave a revolutionary new insight into the core functions and identity of ecosystem as a bioreactor to maintain water quality; Ostroumov S. A. An aquatic ecosystem: a large-scale diversified bioreactor with a water self-purification function. - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2000. Vol. 374, P. 514-516. https://researchgate.net/publication/215907363_An_aquatic_ecosystem_a_large-scale_diversified_bioreactor_with_a_water_self-purification_function._-_Doklady_Biological_Sciences_2000._Vol._374_P._514-516 scribd/doc/49065542; scribd/doc/49069997; 7. This paper discovered the multi-faceted role of the entire broad range of aquatic organisms as a unique (both changeable and fragile) part of the mechanism of ecosystem service to improve water quality; The Concept of Aquatic Biota as a Labile and Vulnerable Component of the Water Self-Purification System. - Doklady Biological Sciences, Vol. 372, 2000, pp. 286–289. https://researchgate.net/publication/12375514_The_concept_of_aquatic_biota_as_a_labile_and_vulnerable_component_of_the_water_self-purification_system ; scribd/doc/49069991; sites.google/site/2000dbs372p286biotalabil/; Russian version: Doklady Akademii Nauk, Vol. 372, No. 2, 2000, pp. 279–282. It is the first paper in which it was clearly shown that aquatic biota (the sum of organisms) is the core part of the ecological mechanism of water self-purification in healthy aquatic ecosystems. The important attributes of this core part of the mechanism are: 1) lability; 2) vulnerability to anthropogenic impact. Another draft of the comment: The author formulated a new fundamental concept of the complex of organisms of aquatic ecosystem. According to the concept, the biota is a central, labile and vulnerable (to pollutants) part of the ecological mechanism of water self-purification and upgrade of water quality. Key words: Geoscience, water quality, assessment, biological activity of surfactants, chemical pollution, self-purification, water, aquatic organisms, contaminants, aquatic ecosystems; Fragment of the text: Self-purification of water is a complex process including physical, chemical, and biological components [1–3]. The vulnerability of different components of the water self-purification system to anthropogenic factors is as yet insufficiently understood.The goal of this work was to review the literature and our own unpublished experimental findings concerning potential vulnerability of the biotic component of the water self-purification system to chemical pollutants. A new role of biota as a core, labile, vulnerable part of ecosystem and upgrade of water quality; 8. It is the first study in which it was shown that the vital function of aquatic organisms (catalysis of matter transfer, and biogeochemical flows of chemical elements through the water column in the normal ecosystem) is decreased by the chemical pollutant as represented by a synthetic surfactant. The new author’s experiments discovered that the biota-driven fluxes of the matter and chemical elements in a model ecosystem were decreased by a chemical pollutant exemplified by a synthetic surfactant. S. A. Ostroumov and M. P. Kolesnikov. Biocatalysis of Matter Transfer in a Microcosm Is Inhibited by a Contaminant: Effects of a Surfactant on Limnea stagnalis. [Lymnaea stagnalis] - Doklady Biological Sciences, Vol. 373, 2000, pp. 397–399. Translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk, Vol. 373, No. 2, 2000, pp. 278–280. https://researchgate.net/publication/12309563_Biocatalysis_of_matter_transfer_in_a_microcosm_is_inhibited_by_a_contaminant_effects_of_a_surfactant_on_Limnea_stagnalis ; scribd/doc/49069985; Explanation: Limnea stagnalis. [Lymnaea stagnalis] is a very common species of snail in ponds in many parts of the world. Lymnaea stagnalis, better known as the great pond snail, is a species of large air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae. It is a very common species of a mollusk (snail) that lives in freshwater bodies in many countries; it is a very common snail in ponds in many regions of the world. 9. The paper discovered new mechanisms triggering eutrophication and as a result, a new solution to the problem of eutrophication; Ostroumov S. A. The Synecological Approach to the Problem of Eutrophication. - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2001, v.381, No.1-6; pp.559-562. https://researchgate.net/publication/10614405_The_synecological_approach_to_the_problem_of_eutrophication scribd/doc/49065550/; 10. First measurements, first publication: New quantitative data on how aquatic mollusks drive fluxes of the chemical elements. The first measurements of the concentrations of the chemical elements (carbon, nitrogen, P, Si, and Al) in the pellets (biodetritus) generated by mollusks. The first quantitative assessment of the contribution of the pellets of aquatic mollusks to the biogeochemical flows of the chemical elements C, N, P, Si, and Al. AQUATIC MOLLUSKS TRANSFER CHEM. ELEMENTS THROUGH ECOSYSTEM. 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. Full text free: https://researchgate.net/publication/259579605_Pellets-of-some-mollusks-in-the-biogeochemical-flows-of-C-N-P-Si-and-Al scribd/doc/49065604; scribd/doc/45911730; PMID: 12918380; scribd/doc/49065604; scribd/doc/45911730; 11. Modernization and refreshing of the most fundamental concepts, notions, and terminology of ecology; Ostroumov S.A. New Definitions of the Concepts and Terms Ecosystem and Biogeocenosis. - Doklady Biological Sciences. 2002, v.383, No.1-6; pp.141-143. https://researchgate.net/publication/259579894_49065580-New-definitions-of-the-concepts-and-terms-ecosystem-and-biogeocenosis-S-A-Ostroumov-Dokl-Biol-Sci-2002-v-383-p-141-143-http-www-scribd-com-doc ; scribd/doc/49065580; 12. New conceptualization of how all biodiversity of the aquatic organisms functions together toward up-grading water quality; NEW THEORY OF AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION: KEY TO WATER SAFETY. Ostroumov S.A. On the Biotic Self-purification of Aquatic Ecosystems: Elements of the Theory. - Doklady Biological Sciences. v.396, No.1-6; pp.206-211. online free: https://researchgate.net/publication/200567576_On_the_biotic_self-purification_of_aquatic_ecosystems_elements_of_the_theory scribd/doc/48099028/; 13. New approach and innovative methodology to experimentally analyze interactions of organisms; NEW METHOD IN ECOLOGY: INHIBITORY ANALYSIS. Inhibitory Analysis of Regulatory Interactions in Trophic Webs. - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2001, v.377, No.1-6; pp.139-141. https://researchgate.net/publication/216167167_Inhibitory_Analysis_of_Regulatory_Interactions_in_Trophic_Webs ; scribd/doc/49065567; 14. Discovery of a new type of negative effects of chemical pollutants on aquatic organisms and ecosystems. The first data on the new negative effects of organic pollutants - detergents and surfactants – on functioning of marine bivalve mollusks. The first data on how the detergents and surfactants slow down (inhibit) water filtration by those bivalve mollusks, mussels and oysters which are of huge importance to aquaculture. NEW FACTS DISCOVERED NEW ASPECT OF HAZARDS OF SEAWATER POLLUTION BY DETERGENTS: TOXICITY TO MOLLUSCA. Effect of Amphiphilic Chemicals on Filter-Feeding Marine Organisms; - Doklady Biological Sciences; 2001, v.378, No.1-6; pp.248-250. https://researchgate.net/publication/259402603_Paper_published_titled_Effect_of_Amphiphilic_Chemicals_on_Filter-Feeding_Marine_Organisms._Doklady_Biol.Sci._378_248-250 ; scribd/doc/49065593; scribd/doc/59417067/; scribd/doc/49065604; scribd/doc/45911730; 15. New fundamental concepts and new scientific terms, to develop terminology in environmental science, in ecology: Two-Level Synergism, Synecological Summation of Anthropogenic Effects; Ostroumov S. A. The Hazard of a Two-Level Synergism of Synecological Summation of Anthropogenic Effects. - Doklady Biological Sciences 2001, v.380, No.1-6; pp.499-501. https://researchgate.net/publication/10614388_The_hazard_of_a_two-level_synergism_of_synecological_summation_of_anthropogenic_effects; scribd/doc/49065634/; scribd/doc/49065634/Danbio52-2001v380p847-E-2level-synergism; New fundamental concepts were formulated in this article: 1) a two-level synergism; 2) synecological summation of man-made effects. In the original Russian edition (Doklady Akademii Nauk), the article starts on page 847. 16. It is the first time that some negative effect of chemical pollutant (synthetic surfactant) on feeding activity of rotifers was discovered; NEW FACT: SURFACTANT SLOWS DOWN FEEDING, FILTRATION RATE OF KEY PLANKTON ORGANISMS, ROTIFERS. DANGER TO WATER QUALITY. Ostroumov S.A., N. Walz; R. Rusche. Effect of a Cationic Amphiphilic Compound on Rotifers - Doklady Biological Sciences, v.390, No.1-6; pp.252-255; [explanation of the terminology: Amphiphilic Compound = surfactant ] https://researchgate.net/publication/259579858_Effect-of-a-Cationic-Amphiphilic-Compound-on-Rotifers scribd/doc/52634169/ 17. It is the first discovery of the new aspect of fundamental cause-effect link between the conservation of biodiversity and protection of water quality. This paper is the first that stresses that this is a two-way link; Biodiversity Protection and Quality of Water: The Role of Feedbacks in Ecosystems. - Doklady Biological Sciences, v.382, No.1-6; pp.18-21; https://researchgate.net/publication/11371556_Biodiversity_protection_and_quality_of_water_the_role_of_feedbacks_in_ecosystems scribd/doc/42558469/; 18. The first identification of a new type of negative effect of chemical pollutants; A New Type of Effect of Potentially Hazardous Substances: Uncouplers of Pelagial–Benthal Coupling. - Doklady Biological Sciences 2002. v.383, No.1-6; pp.127-130. https://researchgate.net/publication/200576296_A_new_type_of_effect_of_potentially_hazardous_substances_uncouplers_of_pelagialbenthal_coupling [124 views, 33 downloads by Apr 15, 2014] scribd/doc/45913695/; 19. NEW PRINCIPLES FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE, ORGANISMS THAT LIVE IN WATER. Modernization of the system of principles for conservation of biodiversity; Formulation of a new relevant principle: conservation and protection of a key aspect of ecosystem’s service in up-grading water quality; an innovative suggestion to establish a special type of protected aquatoria to protect organisms that filter and purify water; System of Principles forConservation of the Biogeocenotic Function and the Biodiversity ofFilter-Feeders. - Doklady Biological Sciences 2002, v.383, No.1-6; pp.147-150. https://researchgate.net/publication/259579921_Article_published_System_of_principles_for_conservation_of_the_biogeocenotic_function_and_the_biodiversity_of_filter-feeders [75 views, 16 downloads by April 15, 2014] scribd/doc/45911862; scribd/doc/49065586; 20. Innovative analysis of the factors that create environmental balance as related to plankton, which in turn is relevant to proper management of water resources, and water quality sustainability; Ostroumov S. A. Imbalance of Factors Providing Control of Unicellular Plankton Populations Exposed to Anthropogenic Impact; - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2001, v.379, No.1-6; pp.341-343. https://researchgate.net/publication/10614342_Imbalance_of_factors_providing_control_of_unicellular_plankton_populations_exposed_to_anthropogenic_impact scribd/doc/49065596; [the article was bookmarked by Internet users]; ** ** 9 Items of Evidence of Merit. Series of publications on EVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, chemical-biological interactions in the biosphere - ecological basis for protection of the environment. Tags: conservation, ecology, ecotoxicology, water quality, pollution, pollutants, detergents, surfactants. Authored, co-authored by a researcher at Moscow State University, Fulbright Awardee Sergei A. Ostroumov. 5bio5.blogspot.ru/2014/04/series-of-publications-on-chem-biol.html ru.scribd/doc/219476640/9-Items-of-Evidence-of-Merit ** EVIDENCE OF MERIT, IMPACT, RECOGNITION: 1. CITATION. 2. APPROVAL IN REVIEWS, EVALUATIONS. 3. INVITATIONS TO GIVE PRESENTATION, TO CONDUCT RESEARCH. 4. AWARDS AND HONORS. 5. ATTENTION OF INTERNET USERS. 6. BOOKS WERE TRANSLATED INTO OTHER LANGUAGES. 7. PUBLICATIONS WERE ACQUIRED BY TOP UNIVERSITIES, NATIONAL LIBRARIES. 8. PUBLICATIONS ARE BEING USED, RECOMMENDED BY UNIVERSITIES FOR EDUCATION. 9. INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS WHO ENDORSED THE AUTHORS SKILLS: ** MORE DETAIL: 5bio5.blogspot.ru/2014/04/series-of-publications-on-chem-biol.html 1. CITATION. CITATION worldwide: 5bio5.blogspot.ru/2014/04/citation-updatedthey-cited-these.html 5bio5.blogspot/2014/04/evidence-of-merit-articles-on-enviro.html 2. APPROVAL IN REVIEWS, EVALUATIONS. scribd/doc/46471534 scribd/doc/45111401 Biological Effects of Surfactants on Organisms (2001): 5bio5.blogspot/2012/06/published-reviews-of-book-ostroumov-sa.html Published reviews of book: Biological Effects of Surfactants. All reviews are favorable. 5bio5.blogspot/2014/03/published-reviews-of-book-biological.html Reviews (favorable) of book: Conservation of Living Nature and Resources: Problems, Trends, and Prospects; 5bio5.blogspot/2014/03/reviews-favorable-of-book-conservation.html 3. INVITATIONS TO GIVE PRESENTATION, TO CONDUCT RESEARCH. Invitations were received from U.S.A., U.K., Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark et al. 4. AWARDS AND HONORS. Fulbright Award; Diploma of Scientific Discovery; honor title Aquatic Ecologist of Year (2009); 5. ATTENTION OF INTERNET USERS. Number of views (Google, Blogger, Apr18, 2014): 450 223 ; Number of views (ResearchGate Apr 22, 2014): 16K; number of downloads (ResearchGate, Apr18, 2014): 2,815; April 21: 2,868 downloads; Publications were BOOKMARKED, UPVOTED, DOWNLOADED: 5bio5.blogspot/2014/04/evidence-of-merit-articles-on-enviro.html 6. BOOKS WERE TRANSLATED INTO OTHER LANGUAGES. books are published in English, Russian, and also are translated into and published in Spanish, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian; 7.PUBLICATIONS WERE ACQUIRED BY TOP UNIVERSITIES, NATIONAL LIBRARIES. e.g., by Harvard, M.I.T., Oxford, Cambridge: 5bio5.blogspot/2014/03/useful-book-on-environmental-safety.html 5bio5.blogspot/2012/11/libraries-worldwide-acquired-books-and.html 5bio5.blogspot/2013/03/top-american-universities-acquired-and.html 5bio5.blogspot.ru/2012/11/libraries-of-uk-and-usa-acquired-these.html 5bio5.blogspot/2012/11/libraries-of-uk-and-usa-acquired-these.html 5bio5.blogspot/2013/01/usa-canada-uk-australia-et-al.html USA, Canada, France,Japan,China,Belgium,Switzerland, England, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Australia: 5bio5.blogspot/2012/10/best-libraries-usa-canada-france-japan.html U.S. universities, libraries, Caltech, Harvard, M.I.T.: 5bio5.blogspot/2012/10/usa-top-universities-libraries-acquired.html National Library of Sweden: 5bio5.blogspot/2012/12/swedennational-library-of-sweden-book.html Hong Kong, HKUST Library: 5bio5.blogspot/2012/11/hong-kong-hkust-library-acquired-books.html 8. PUBLICATIONS ARE BEING USED, RECOMMENDED IN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION. 5bio5.blogspot/2012/10/modernizing-environmental-university.html ** 9. INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS WHO ENDORSED THE AUTHORS SKILLS: On experts who endorsed S. Ostroumov skills at ResearchGate, selected: Canada; BSc(Hons) First Class Zoology, PhD Biochemistry Professor, University of Saskatchewan · School of Environment and Sustainability His score (at ResearchGate) is higher than 97.5% of ResearchGate members. ** Italy: Ph. D., professor of Ecology Professor (Full) - Fundamentals of system analysis, social-ecological landscape analysis Università del Salento · Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Science He directs the Landscape Ecology Laboratory working on social-ecological landscape assessment, goods and services, impact and risk assessment. His score (at ResearchGate) is higher than 97.5% of ResearchGate members. ** Professor, Poznan University of Technology; His score is higher than 97.5% of ResearchGate members. ** M.Sc.,Ph.D.,D.Sc. Professor (Full), Ege University; His score is higher than 65% of ResearchGate members. ** Deputy Head of Department Universitatea Dunarea de Jos G... · Department of Chemistry, Physics, and Environment Her score is higher than 77.5% of ResearchGate members. **
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