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innovative concept of ecosystem as a multifunctional bioreactor, one of its functions is upgrading water quality: ecosystem service

Sergei Ostroumov–Nov 29, 2009

An aquatic ecosystem: a large-scale diversified bioreactor with a water self-purification function. The author developed an innovative concept of ecosystem as a multifunctional bioreactor, one of its functions is upgrading water quality.

Tags: Earth Science, aquatic ecosystem, bioreactor, water self-purification, upgrading water quality, biomachinery, synthetic surfactants, detergents, filtration, environmental safety, filter-feeders

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Sergei Ostroumov wrote on Dec 8, 2009 7:47 am
Our recent findings are in line with this paper, and they confirmed its main conclusions. After this paper we kept on studying aquatic organisms and how chemicals (esp surfactants and some other xenobiotics) affect them. One of key steps after this paper was summarizing our new data and ideas in the book: Ostroumov S. A. Biological Effects of Surfactants. CRC Press. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, London, New York. 2006. 279 p. ISBN 0-8493-2526-9. [new facts and concepts on assessment of hazards from chemicals, new look on the factors important to water quality, to sustainability; new priorities in environmental safety]. Recenly we did experiments with heavy metals.All our new data including the most recent confirmed that the fundamental concepts developed in the paper on ecosystem as a type of bioreactor proved to be productive.
Sergei Ostroumov wrote on Jan 2, 2010 1:43 pm
some MOST RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS by Dr. S.A. Ostroumov in English (including the WEBSITES WITH THE FULL TEXTS) ------------
1. Ostroumov S. A. 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. http://sites.google.com/site/2000dbs372p286biotalabil/; --------
2. Ostroumov S. A., Kolesnikov M. P. Biocatalysis of Matter Transfer in a Microcosm Is Inhibited by a Contaminant: Effects of a Surfactant on Limnea stagnalis. - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2000, 373: 397–399. Translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2000, Vol. 373, No. 2, pp. 278–280. http://sites.google.com/site/2000dbs373p397biocatallstag/--------
3. 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. http://sites.google.com/site/2000dbs374p514bioreactor/ --------
4. Ostroumov SA. 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. http://sites.google.com/site/2000dbs371p204criteria/ --------
5. Ostroumov S. A. An amphiphilic substance inhibits the mollusk capacity to filter out phytoplankton cells from water. - Biology Bulletin, 2001, Volume 28, Number 1, p. 95-102.
ISSN 1062-3590 (Print) 1608-3059 (Online); DOI 10.1023/A:1026671024000; http://www.springerlink.com/content/l665628020163255/;--------